Total ND.

If you really want a SPG, you can probably find a nicer one for not much more, or an equivalent one for less.

“You lose the roof, eliminating its ability to carry tall things”

You must not have heard about the T-Roc Cabrio, it seems.

Definitely NOT an improvement over the good old Bitch Basket.

Good grief.  You bought a bottom dollar worn out GTI.  Get a nicer one.  Get a 2010-11 with the TSI (be sure tensioner’s been replaced) or a 2012+.  David, you’re lovely, but generalizing about VW’s like that is what kept me afraid of them for so long.

SAAB - you are correct. It is even a more painful story. They were independent, then merged with Scania (trucks) then split and GM bought a stake with a buyout option. They really just had a part (like Subaru) and left them alone for about 10 years.

International Harvester - They spent decades making pick-up trucks, and what would eventually called SUVs, but went out of business in 1980 just before the SUV craze hit in the mid-80s.

I’d throw Saab into the ring. They were developing engines and technology used in the rest of the GM lineup when the Great Recession hit and got the axe because of it. The Saab-developed 2.8T V6 was also used in the more popular Cadillac SRX.

Subaru doesn't make a flat 6 anymore, so there's extra R&D and tooling costs, which is passed down directly to the buyer, which is already a small number of people already. Offering a turbo 4 would require it to be heavier and bigger up front to make room for the extra piping and cooling, which is all in the front and…

Toyota and Subaru are missing out on a great opportunity to make their cars more profitable with some basic model additions. Adding the flat 6 and WRX turbo 4 as optional packages could create even larger profit margins and more appeal to the models. It could follow the simple scheme used for the Mustang, Challenger,…

I’ll just take a pause for a moment to realize that this question is possible in the first place. Neither of them are totally new, but neither of them are cancelled either, and that’s cool.

What kind of Jalop question is this?

With the 1.8T you have to budget for coil packs (basically a consumable on these) and at 100K this probably should be getting it’s second water pump. Other than that, the only thing that really kills these is frame rot in northern climates. Not an issue for a California car, if that is where it really lived it’s life.

Actually the TT was a very well put together car. Lots of new manufacturing processes used. I owned one for 5 years and never had the slightest issue other than the coil packs but those are cheap and easy to replace (and only had to do once to the newer version coils). I even had stage III APR mods it’s entire 5 year…

Too bad it does not have the tan baseball stitched seats. Those with the green exterior really look nice. 

Don’t forget it’s 50 thousand dollar cousin

As poorly as most teenagers drive, I’d want something that wouldn’t get flattened by a semi for my kid. 

My cousin had a Festiva. Know what happens if you get a tiny car for a teen? Other teens move it.

In the US is there any good reason to get a car this small?
They don’t really get better gas mileage than a somewhat larger hatch.
Not many places have parking problems these things solve.
Most of our streets are super wide.
This is a solution for a problem we don’t have.