I think it will be more like the new 86: Subaru reliability with Toyota-like power.

Also a lot of “country club racism” in that set. But they’re smart enough to only pull it out when they think you’re buddies. But yeah, these are the people passing on job applicants and denying home loans when no one is looking.

Brake rotors! There is definitely a difference. But the difference isn’t correlated to price.

You’re wrong about the brake rotors. I say stick with OE. Duralast rotors are made with cheap steel and warp in a year. Honda rotors last ten years (at least on my car). Your call.

I don’t like the argument about oil filters. Those manufactures probably make the filters to the spec of the company that contracts them. I’ve worked places that are contract manufacturers. We give them a price based off what they specify. If they want the better material, that means we charge them more than the…

THEY TOOK OUR JOBS!

Can confirm. Daily drive a manual through Boston traffic and never want for an automatic.

I sit in SoCal traffic every day in a manual car, about an hour and a half each way. Don’t want to crawl into a dungeon. Would buy another.

My parents and my wife both enjoyed watching old Top Gear with me. I loved that about the show. My wife has no interest in cars whatsoever, but she’d voluntarily sit down with me and watch. My dad became a real fan of it.

You’d think that the VAG Group would have the technology to adjust engine settings when the car senses that it’s being run in a static environment and not moving . . . . .