Toss up for me between the Ford dealership that tried to play the “misplaced the keys for your trade” game, and the Fiat dealership where the sales manager spent all his time telling me about his retirement from being a member of Seal Team 7. So many good times...

With so much crazy I almost wonder if one or more of the WH staff aren’t supplying extreme fake news articles to Trump solely to encourage him to crash and burn. One can only hope.

The only stopper to that price would be flood damage or salvage title... or a dead hooker still in the boot. Otherwise, NP all day long.

Par for the course for a shop that apparently solders a turbo directly to an intercooler like a pustulent boil on the face of that poor car.

Whoa! Where’s the NSFW tag on that car porn?!? heh...

Batgirl sure has changed from my childhood memories... not complaining, mind you...

Most often you can use a small resistor to fool the ECU into thinking it is still connected. Do a search on a forum specific to your car, there will be either resistor recommendations or sometimes aftermarket plugs to make it simple to keep the light off. Be careful though, you turn the key on while the airbag is…

I would think having a broken down old pile o’ crud would have the exact opposite effect, more of a mugging deterrent than attractant. Guy must of been lit, as who in their right mind would go “Hey, that guy pushing his car, he looks rich! Let us relieve him of that obviously heavy wallet!”

Jack stands. And a much lower quota of brass balled stupidity. Plus good tools now that I can afford them. I work slower, smarter, and safer. Even use safety glasses... albeit more for correction of farsightedness.

You sure that isn’t a Saturn??

Have a Eurodyne stage 1.5 on my S3, huge improvement. The VAG 2.0s respond oh so well to tuning...

It is the Scan Design of the Mercedes world, so yeah, it looks good. Clean straight lines, no extra fluff.

Sooo many red flags here... just no.

When most dealerships went to a book time rate for repairs rather than paying hourly/salary, that is when many good mechanics moved on. Mechanics have to wait for jobs to come in, with competition over those with more hours. It gets to the point where short jobs, like an ECU update or similar, get left on the lot for…

My first few cars as a yute all shared the distinction of being able to be started with a screwdriver in the ignition, mainly due to age and hundreds of thousands of miles of wear and tear on ‘70s - ‘80s tech. So my bar for fear of theft is pretty low.

Yes, interior is worth every dime of the purchase price. And it makes for the absolute worst rental car I have ever had the misfortune of driving. Crap interior, rough ride, warning lights on randomly, quintessential rental car hell. You get what you pay for here.

I was drooling over a lot of ‘80's era standard Japanese bikes... but just broke down and bought ‘17 Kawasaki Z125 this past weekend. Figured out that I like modifying more than I like restoring, and the Z is a blank canvas with a ton of aftermarket. That and it is easy starting fuel injection slow bike rode fast…

If it goes fast enough, and there is enough motion blur, it may, just may, not look so ugly. Figure about lightspeed.

Domestic T-tops pretty much sucked out loud, leaky, noisy, and seriously problematic. On my old ‘82 Mustang I actually used a caulking gun and silicone to finally end the mystery leak that multiple seal changes and prayer failed to cure. On the 300ZX though, they are amazing. Quiet, easy to use, come with shade…

I test drove one of these while awaiting delivery of my ‘03 Evo VIII. It tended to hit the rev limiter easily, you did not get enough feedback and the motor was still pulling hard at that point. Handling was pretty sharp for a FWD. With a light tune and maybe an exhaust that you could actually hear, it would have been…