I drove a '97 version of this through high school and the first couple years of college. It was my first taste of freedom and I loved it despite its variety of faults.

I've always wanted an Elise. One day. One fine day...

I wanted to buy a Subaru, I practically did everything but create the sales documents and tell THEM (my local franchise) where they needed to sign everything - but I did not get one because they tried until their very dying breath to rip me off, even knowing I work in the business (auto journalist, B2B side) and have…

LFR has to be a joke - if it were the same difficulty as normal it wouldn't be worth bothering with as it would rarely get done with a group full of random people.

Why is this so hard to believe? The only time I was remotely close to being ticketed was in my teens when I got pulled over twice in the same week and received a warning both times, nothing on record. I had never been stopped before and haven't been since then, and it's not because I've just been diddling about right…

Under Pressure - you sound like you're in a relationship with a younger version of someone I almost married - and as much as I also wanted it to work, you have to sift through the manipulative bullshit she's trying to pull on you and realize that you'll be much better off without her. That whole, "I stayed with you…

I have this same issue (I really, REALLY wanted to get a Fit) - legs for days.

looks fantastic in white

Is this supposed to be satire? If so, this is really poor satire.

I kept expecting Zlatan Ibrahimovic to jump out of one of the Volvos - but still amazing - thank you for sharing!

Lede -> NHTSA

Filed to "INFIEDELITY," eh?

You had me at "...a game of real football..."

I had my Golf for about 20,000 miles before I sold it - it went through two DPFs in that time. I've been burned so I'll likely never buy another diesel again, at least not a VW.

I typically brew my own coffee, so I'm right there with you, but there are certainly plenty of people that eat breakfast at fast food joints on their way to work that probably won't want soda with their food. I also imagine there are a TON more people eating breakfast at McDonald's in the U.S. than there are in the…

The dumber they are, the more they procreate. Then their dumb children do the same thing. At least they seem like reasonably nice people.

They're coffee is actually pretty decent, for a fast-food restaurant - I only know this because of their free morning coffee campaign from a few months ago. It's worlds better than, say, gas station coffee.

As a different flavor of automotive journalist (my publications aren't "consumer facing," they're B2B), I get embargoed releases quite often - and to not honor that embargo would mean the loss of advertisement revenue. Jalopnik and their sister sites are deftly positioned so that they don't have to worry about pissing…

Isn't excessive idling particularly harsh on a TDI engine compared to other engines? Thought I read that somewhere on the TDIClub forums or something along those lines.

Yes, I said that - what's your point?