What I am surprised with that graph is the Taurus costing the same to run as the Prius plugin.  Why is the Prius so expensive?

Funny Toronto ran these a lot. Vancouver mostly ran the Flyer and New Flyer for many many years. I don’t know what they use nowadays, there’s some really short wheelbase thing that I assume helps with maneuverability.  We also got some low ceiling double deckers as well.

That’s the argument that I am making for looking at 911, the back seat one. I have a little kid and he’s gonna fit in there for quite a few more years. Can’t do it with a GT4 despite actually wanting the Cayman GT4.

Agreed.

Gonna have to tell you that you are wrong, because I did consider and almost bought the VA WRX for kid duty.

I would disagree to Hyundai reliability. It’s as much of a mixed bag as any of the German cars.

Curious what turbocharged vehicles you’ve owned that’s made you pay.

I guess it was just a harmonic damper then.

There was a hunk of metal on the rear on my MS3. I always thought it was those sacrificial metal hunks that attract oxidation so the real parts of the car don’t rust as quickly. Now I wonder if it was to balance out the massive turbo engine weight in the front instead.

Alfa has improved quite a bit in the last couple of races, going from a complete back marker to Giovanazzi making Q2. Well I guess that still makes them a back marker but they aren’t in the same vein as Hass.

My friends were getting 11-14mpg LOL. Granted they did stupid things and there are no real highways around me (Vancouver BC).

The fuel mileage though, these things drank fuel like an ox stuck in the desert for a month. What meagre savings you had in maintenance was quickly drained at the pump.

I think some torque steer is good, if you tune out the torque steer, chances are you are tuning out steering feel as well.  I used to own a MS3 and there was a decent amount of torque steer on it, and it made the car feel alive and the car told me what it was doing.  It was also lots of fun to gun it and feel the car…

We aren’t complaining about the cars, we are complaining about the dealers.

The laws are different. Car seats weren’t required for 3 and up even in the 90's. You have to keep them in a car seat until 6-7 nowadays at the minimum and boosters until their are 9. Yes the kids aren’t any bigger, but their stuff is as car seats have grown in size for ever increasing safety.

Same. VW had to give up and offer a real LSD as an option.

Parent’s can drive their own cars.  We don’t live together anyways.

When you say electronic LSD, do you mean an electronically actuated clutch type LSD, or the shitty traction control LSD where it grabs the spinning wheel’s brakes and mimics how a LSD actually works?

Then it won’t be the same car. BMW did it with the old 1 series hatch and it did not review well unless you were in for shenanigans.

That opening picture could very well be Bradley considering some of the riding shenanigans he’s posted in the past year haha.