I had the same thought.  This Jeep has been getting nothing but oil changes (I hope!) for some time.

For American buyers:

Holy crap! Hard pass. Even April was a pass for me (I’m mostly on the road by then) but I’ve been warned not to expect this to sort itself out until ‘22. I heard Santa Cruz won’t even take new orders from their dealers for ‘21.

I could have sworn I read it also had to do with breaking in the transmission and differential as well.

Giant actually makes the bikes. As Katlessj pointed out, companies bring their designs (which might even have patents associated with them) and Giant does the manufacturing.

I wasn’t aware about the QA people but, sure. I should have said bikes *designed by* Trek, etc. 

I was thinking the same. Huge, but brief opportunity. Odds are someone like that never actually bought back in.

So who makes these bikes? Giant?  (For non-bike-nerds, Giant makes bikes for Trek, Scott, Colnago and others).

What’s really amazing (to me) is that they survived in the US in the pre-Elise days, selling a hundred cars or less each year. They ran a lean operation and were very service oriented. A friend of mine was having trouble sourcing something and the CEO of Lotus USA offered to hand-carry the parts back from the UK! Just…

I have not heard of issues but I bet the number of people modifying the 1.8t is much less than those modifying the 2.0.  

My understanding (from an OEM engineer on another board) is that they have a pretty good idea of Mean Time Between Failures on a lot of components and do consider warranty costs vs up front costs to a degree. He recounted a story of spending some small number of pennies for the extra wire to put a part where it was…

6MT. Unitronic 2+. Forgot - I put in a TTRS clutch at the same time.  DSGs are ridiculously quick but I like to shift for myself.

That’s exactly what I did on my Sportwagen. R turbo, springs, rear bar. Koni SAs. An intake. Alltrack front brakes. Downpipe ready to go in so I’ll have a little more torque down low. I (randomly) pulled on an S4 one day. The guy was laughing hysterically at the next light. “What the hell did you do to that thing?”

This is a thing ... that actually happened? In London, the international travelers starter trip? FFS. My kid is a picky-eating 11yo and even she loves eating different junk food in other countries.

$5780!  Not bad although I don’t see extra HP anywhere on the Porsche site.

This right here.

I put that one in my 360.  Aside from not having HD radio (it didn’t occur to me that a $500 headunit wouldn’t and I didn’t check), I’m pretty happy with it.  It does partially block some vents but you can have it close the screen and continue playing.  No wireless Android either.

My friend’s old C6 Z06. It was a beast as expected and the LS7 was a jewel, but the magna-thingy shocks were just amazing at giving it a compliant ride too. He told me the carbon brakes were easier to modulate than the 997 GT3 he traded for it.

Before he started the channel, he showed up on the teslamotorsclub forum, announcing he had bought a flooded Tesla and was going to rebuild it. The howls of “you’re crazy, you can’t do it, you’re going to DIEEEEEEEEEEE” were awesome. And, of course, he just went and did it while proving to be a very, very funny guy.

My father in law fell asleep and totaled a Forrester a few years back. His belted friend walked away. The airbag saved his life but recovery took months. He was just super lucky it was one (big) hit and the car didn’t roll over.