Many people balk at the price of current VW cars, so making their cars cheaper and less expensive might broaden the appeal with the people who think VWs were econoboxes (that many weren’t). It might also help Audi if it makes the A3/4 significantly nicer in comparison to the Golf.

I can only guess why a CTS-V had a “bad” clutch at 30,000 miles.

I really want to reburish an 83 C123 300TD that my company has sitting in our parking lot (on the company dime so I can use it as my ‘company car’). Then then eventually replace the diesel with a 6.2L LS3 or L94. I mean the poor Benz has been sitting there for years and could probably run with a filter and fluid…

Me too! I want to buy new ones for my Miata but $5 a piece adds up. Plus, these trucks can have almost twice as many!

Probably get sold to repair shops in SoCal. Hell, or just dismounted and melted down for the tons of scrap aluminum. $200,000 to a dealer, but theivea will be happy with $20,000 worth of scrap metal and tires.

It doesn't look like the 39s have vent windows.

I’m leaning toward a late ‘40s Ford Super Deluxe

It looks like what you get when you describe a 240Z to a blind person. In other words this:

Yeah, I’m not sure if you can get a radio with buttons AND Bluetooth. I’m not sure you can get buttons and pretty much anything else on his list. And if he doesn’t get something in the next year, there won’t be a single car without a rear view camera. His aversion to those while requiring parking sensors tells me he’s…

Shh shh shh. Miata.

Yes. I would love to sit face to face with him giving these attributes, then go “one word... Miata.” Totally straight face. Then when he tries to rebutt, put my finger to his lips and whisper “Mi-at-ta.”

Remote start with an “analogue” key which I can only assume means a piece of metal.

He should get a lesson about the difference between “bumper” and “bumper cover”.

He’s not trying to compensator for anything with a name like “Outback”. You know, because he’s not trying to impress anyone but also cares that people think he’s trying to not impress them.

He wants a Honda, probably an Odyssey but doesn’t know it. Whatever the Honda SUV is that’s the same size but differently shaped from the Odyssey is probably the best answer. A lot of his “should not have” are unreasonable now a days because of lawyers and seems quite nit-picky.

I imagine it’s slowing down because people have been buying the same handful of cars for decades now. How many million dollar Ferraris were made after 1967? Not that many. Once the really rare cars find their way into museum quality collections, they don't really leave so there are fewer and fewer $5-10 million cars…

No reasonable CSi can be a crack pipe.

I used to work at a KYB factory making struts for Corollas. Trust me, it's not Brawndo. I would have tasted the electrolytes.

The 924S I had required you to move the shifter back between the 1-2 gate before you could engage reverse, i. e., you could not physically go from 5 to R. Perfectly safe without a lever or knob to push, pull or finagle.

All transmissions should be dogleg!