You know, I was about to say that “I really wish we still had cars like these. And no, the Toyobaru doesn’t count - it’s the replacement for the Celica, maybe. WRX and Mini are really all that is left, and the WRX is 4 door only. MAYBE the Civic SI.”

Did that too.  Never again, and you’ve got me on the years.  Needed cigarettes.  Quit smoking not long after that.  

Lots of westminsters - not sure if you’re talking the one in CO (used to live over there for a while), but if you are, ROFL ROFL.

Outskirts, wife’s family still does, back there every year for 20 years it seems.  Shit transit, but at least it exists - and sometimes works >_<  Sometimes. 

Agreed. I used to live in Park Hill. Wife lived on Cheesman park. Been all over this city - but self-sufficient doesn’t mean “has enough to keep you from going bored”, etc.

EXACTLY. Can/want/will are different things, and just because SimCity says “you have food close enough” doesn’t mean that irrational beings (humans) are happy with that. We need solutions for this - including better mass transit, designed road systems, walking/biking paths, etc.

I am and I’m not. Just because I can walk there doesn’t mean I want to walk there, or that what I want is within that walking distance. In Paris, effectively the ~entire city~ is in walking distance - it’s that dense. In Denver, it is not - yes, there’s a grocery store within walking distance (or at least a real…

America doesn’t have a 5 year plan, never mind 50 year...  :p 

So you’re going to what, demolish the american cities and suburbs and start over? Because retrofitting htem to walking when you have a 20+ mile diameter region to cover is not sane. Paris is 47 square miles. Denver is 154 square miles. Los Angeles is FIVE HUNDRED square miles. Different worlds there, built in…

Mass Transit.  Oh you sweet summer child.  You assume any given city has usable/reasonable/sane mass transit.  Sadly, most don’t, at least in the US - and if they do, chances are they’re in utterly crap shape and unusable.  

I know folks that “have a place” out in El Paso county that use that to get around it, but that’s not sane for most folks.  And if you get caught...  yeah.  

No pass with CEL now at all (or any error light).  Engine must be newer than the car (not vice-versa).  If you find an idiot that just plugs in the OBD connector now you might get away with it, but it’s measured against the STOCK engine - so if that 2.7 blows more than the 2.0T would, you’re gonna have problems. …

This is what I come back to.  Sure, the stock A4 ain’t much with the 2.0T, but APR is cheap and solves that problem.  

1.8T? Other than coilpacks (swap on the side of the road in 15 minutes if you have to), it’s pretty solid I think. The early EA888 were the same way... again, I think, but those also had fuel pump problems.

Point of order-  it’s Denver, so the V8 makes ~270HP here.  so this is probably damned close - the turbos work better here assuming you haven’t done something stupid with them.  

Denver; that’s not going to pass emissions here.  $5 says he couldn’t find someone to bribe this time around, or moved here and discovered that Air Care Colorado takes its job seriously, and is now trying to ditch it without a passing emissions slip.  Which, technically, the seller is required to get (but will ditch…

Uh huh. It’s also a civic. Or maybe a Trax. Or hell, it’s a car thing. That’s all we know, I’m a dealer internet dude.

A solid rock wall (or pedestrians, if other fords are any example).  

Because fun.  

Bet the black one has an automatic in it. Every single one (with one exception that the dealer did not want to sell) I’ve seen advertised as manual was actually the auto. Every. Single. One. And the exception? A great honda dealer that keeps a mint, brand-new S2000 in the showroom, along side a Type-R Integra (both…