I agree. My tastefully modified fifteen year old A4 2.0T with 135k miles asks for a few parts and repairs but not anything I can’t handle myself given I do the research. No sure how much I would have to spend to get the same relative AWD performance and three pedals, but it would be a lot.

Totally agree. Our current Toyota SUV’s center screen has to be manually changed between night and daytime illumination. If you forget to turn it “back up” after a night drive I can’t see it well enough in the day to make the adjustment, annoying.

I wonder if for toe in the driver has to hold the steering wheel back, and that when not pulling back on the steering wheel the wheels return to the natural position of toe out. So pull back to go fast on the straight and operate like normal on the rest of the track.

In what world do you try to convince a company to stay by making it harder for them to stay?

As a part time car painter, any gray that is not metallic looks like primer to me.

A friend of mine drives a fifteen year old Land Cruiser to not stick out here. He could buy his wife a brand new anything, but they have the LC and take great care of it. I think it has over 230k.

Number 2 is totally on point. Dealers need to realize the gravy train is over, better attract new buyers, not ridicule them, your current ones will not be buying bikes much longer.

I watched the first four laps and the last five or so, I think my sleep habits are being honed by these boring races.

They make a mean cheeseburger there as well.

To be a self proclaimed “car guy” and not know how to drive a stick must be hard. Watching car shows or racing and seeing all those cool manual transmissions and thinking each time “wow that would be so fun, but I can’t drive a stick”... sounds soul crushing to me.

I remember when the first kid in our neighborhood got a car is was a 74 Monte Carlo. Fourteen year old me was so confused that the car only had two gears, wtf? All these little cars have 4mt gearboxes and this luxury barge has just two gears?!

I saw a Durango just last week, the body style that started in 2004 (had to look that up) that looked clean and well cared for. It was black and clean which can look out of place in March in Montana. Kudos to the owner, but as I walked along the rear I could see through the rear quarters especially behind the rear…

“The cobblers kids have no shoes.” I run a small time body shop from my house but several of my own vehicles have primer spots on them.

I have hanging on my garage wall a perfectly good Jetta front axle with a mushroomed end. I got a little western when changing a wheel bearing assembly and buggered the threads. I keep it there to remind me to have patience. I bought a proper brass hammer very soon after.

Like modded trucks? You sir need to cue up “Texas Metal”, I think it airs on Velocity Channel.

And, what state? Because every FCA vehicle over ten years old here in salt country is rusted very badly.

I don’t particularly like driving my wife’s Odie, but damn am I glad we have it. We have figured out how to stuff four hard kayaks in that sucker and still shut the rear door! Plus you can camp in there after stowing all the seats.

Timeline and driver’s coach same for me, and I learned in a brown Pinto, hell yea.

extremely overrated.

I go to the tire store under the guise of seeing a friend, actually I am just there to take in the sweet vulcanized aroma of the new fresh baked tires.