I’ve driven all three (Foz, XTrek and Golf) - The Forester is an SUV - so it doesn’t deliver the driving experience of a wagon thats low to the ground. Driving the XTrek is punishment either in CVT or Manual form. Why can’t Subaru put out a decent base engine? Teh 1.8 TSI in the Golf is a sweet little engine with…

I’d prefer to just get a base GSW S 4Motion 6MT without all the extra body cladding and additional ride height. Then retrofit GTI seats.

Oh, and the PL head has better intake flow and the 9A better exhaust flow. I always ran a little more advance at the distributor on my PL for better low-RPM city driveability. It was less VTEC-y, even though I had a fuel-enrichment relay setup.

That’s what I was alluding towards: once you start fucking with it, the 9A is where to start, unless you just run MS. That works just fine, too, haha.

This will go CP just because of Jalopnik “its a 30 year old econobox, VWs are awful” bias.

I’ve sort of extracted myself from the Volkswagen thing, but the last time I was looking for a Mk2 Golf or GTI this was about the starting price for a good example that hasn’t been “tuned”. You may not like it, but this is a Nice Price.

A small nitpick, but the C11 actually did not win the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1990 - the C9 did in 1989. In fact, the C11 wasn’t even entered. That doesn’t take away from its dominance though, as as they focused on the WSC championship, where it won almost every race it entered.

It’s the XJR 15 that you’re thinking of. It the Jaguar version of this. Group C based road car.

Here’s the thing with Westy Synchro’s, there’s an entire cult that’s built up around these things, then factor in the hipster van craze, it was inevitable. A nicely sorted Syncho Westy with all VW parts is anywhere from 75k to 130k at GoWesty.com, so the price is inline , the thing that’s stinking the soup is the Sube…

Ya picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel.

That would be great. I’d actually be in the market for that car. I was so disappointed in the 370z- no excitement factor.

Funny story. Bear with me. Friends parents had one of these new. We used for flog the shit out of it in the snow it was a riot. So my buddy who owned it loved it, said it was like 300hp and called it the super wagon. Another buddy decided to burn him once. Submits an add to the local buy and sell magazine reading.

Exactly. If anything, I would think a fixed roof coupe would be just as light and have a stiffer chassis. A more practical poor man’s 4C with better tech and dealer support.

His thesis, borne out by eight of the ten cars on his list, is that there are many cars which are “tool[s] you buy by the yard; tool[s] with no personality, no character, no soul.” Neither the Zenos nor the Nissan meet these criteria. Whether they fit what you want as a daily driver is immaterial: they both have…

Honda Element - will run forever, back seat has more legroom than any car I’ve ever seen (though it’s a pain to get into when in a parking lot with cars on either side due to backwards opening doors), inside is plastic - super easy to clean out and did I mention it runs forever?

I am insulted.

This is really dumb. A different comment should have won COTD.

I get what you’re saying re: the difference between a 2-door with a trunk lid vs a 2-door with a lift-back. But I’m speaking to the styling. You wouldn’t call anything with a vertical rear window a coupe. Vertical rear glass = hatch styling. Clown shoe = hatch. There isn’t much of a market for luxury hatches today,…

Seems to depend on the car/company.

320k miles, if the 100k miles per 2.5 years rate continues. Not 800k.