True, but look at how badly the BRZ/86 are selling. My theory is that everyone who wanted a Toyobaru bought one during the first two years of production. (Including me - I bought a 2014 BRZ.) They haven’t given us the STi/TRD turbo versions everyone’s been begging for, so there’s no good reason for current owners to…

I owned the touring cousin to this bike, a 1982 Silverwing GL500 Interstate.

I love the distinctive growl of a VR6 with an intake. One of those in an Atlas would be even more awesome than the blowoff valve sounds my wife’s Ford Flex EcoBoost makes (after my mods, of course).

My WRX also had a sloppy shifter. A Perrin shifter stop tightened it up almost as much as my BRZ was. Maybe a similar solution would fix the problem in the Elantra.

This is completely insane and highly ill advised. I love it. Best of luck to you!

We have these here in Massachusetts. It’s very simple.

Please please please do the Pontiac 6000.

How about by motorcycle? Assume 45mpg for a Harley-Davidson Electra Glide, or 50mpg on a BMW K1600GTL. Assume camping or couch surfing along the way to cut down costs. And assume an aversion to interstate highways to add time, because what would be the point of superslabbing this trip on a bike?

We made the same decision with my wife’s Ford Flex. It needed pads and rotors, and a package deal with drilled rotors was the most affordable way. It’s also quite wrong for a Ford Flex, but that’s a perfect match to its blow-off valve noises.

Also, obligatory:

3rd Gear: I’m curious how LiDAR use for cruise control and autonomous cars is going to react with the laser jammers used on top end radar/laser detectors. I hope certain frequencies (colors?) are set aside for law enforcement and others for civilian systems, or else laser jammers could start causing accidents if these…

LED washer nozzles. Been there, bought those, because they were actually less expensive than stock nozzles. I did NOT wire up the lights. Though they would’ve gone well with the rest of the car. I called its terrible decoration motif “ghetto rice.”

It’s basically the Focus RS engine. It can handle a lot of tuning.

I said this once before, and was torn between my BRZ and the Mustang EcoBoost. But with this kind of price difference, as much as I like the Toyobaru, I’d go with the EcoStang.

I did exactly that with a Cobb stage 1 tune on my otherwise stock 2015 WRX, and it significantly improved the car. Yeah, there’s a little more power, but everything I hated about the stock tune - the rev hang, the touchy throttle - is fixed. It’s a better daily driver as a result.

I’m with you 100%. I’d rather see women in cars, treated as equals, racing as equals. And when a woman has beaten me in competition before, I was the first to congratulate her.

Then it’s not our place to judge. The Judge already has.

True, but there are some VERY loaded sections of Montreal. While an Aston or Bentley might be a unicorn for many of us every day (outside your dealership, of course), it’s common to see a few a day there - more in the right parts of town.

I’d keep the GTI. Heck, I just replaced my BRZ with a WRX for added practicality and marrying a woman with two pre-existing conditions - I mean, boys.

I’ve already got a Mk4 Jetta. I’m already planning to turn it into a Smyth Ute.