I never said Lexus was a performance brand.

Problem: Audi isn’t a performance brand.

Fortunately there are plenty of car companies that sell product that gives up the last tenth of performance for reliability, since some of us actually want to drive our cars and enjoy them.

Both the Toyota 2UR-GSE and the VW Group 4.2L V8 use chains.

Lol that’s your problem. Owning a B5.

It is really a Hobson’s Choice in the B6/B7 era cars: Would you like to have the utterly unreliable and disastrously expensive timing chain issues on the S4, or the utterly unreliable and disastrously expensive issues with the Dynamic Ride Control on the RS4?

As someone who has a B5 S4 currently in pieces in my garage (it may be looking at yet another turbo replacement [one at 107K], along with a suspension replacement [needs shocks and possibly control arms]. It also needs new half shafts front and back. And this was actually a well-maintained example!)

“So Toyoda-san, do you have to pull the engine on an IS F to do timing chain work because someone decided that the best idea was to put the chain case next to the firewall?”

The world needs more properly set up N/A engines. Turbos used to be special, now a well-calibrated N/A engine is a special gem.

Plus if you buy a Lexus, it won’t be actively plotting to blow up on you in fantastic and hilariously expensive ways, like, say, an Audi S4/RS4.

I know. Skinner is likely pointing out that what they wrote wasn’t what they told him the role was.

It depends on if the credit is refundable or not. If the credit is refundable (like the Earned Income or Child and Dependent Care credits), it can certainly reduce your tax liability below zero tax owed, and you get the difference back (i.e your refund can be larger than tax owed plus overpayments). 

A lot of lane changing behavior on US freeways would actually get you black flagged or a ban from most sanctioned motorsports in the US (NASA and IMSA will pull you off track for not holding your line).

Not to speak of the Gardiner either. That’s a whole shit show unto itself.

Can confirm from a number of car rentals originating at Pearson.

285 is only really awful on the top end now after passing 400 in your direction of travel (Westbound from 400 to Cobb Cloverleaf, eastbound from 400 to Spaghetti Junction in DeKalb).

Hmm....non stock steering wheel (that’s from a B5 S4), VW’s notorious 1.8T four cylinder, from a guy in New Jersey, who doesn’t know if the timing belt got replaced (i.e. it hasn’t).

I think I see a transfer case behind that transmission. If that’s the case, there is no steering rack. 4WD GMT800s have recirculating ball steering. Only the 2WD models got rack and pinion.

The dash top piece has also been replaced. The 1999-2000 Beetles didn’t have the hazard switch up top. It was down next to the traction control defeat switch (which you can see in the picture).

Heck Tom, I could tell you about the time that I told a sales manager that there is a difference between working on commission and being a pushy jerk, right in front of his sales guy, after he told me they were a “no-pressure dealership”. Oh, and accusing a guy who wants to buy a $46K Camaro of “kicking the tires”