Snap.

I blame the previous owner for neglect.

70 years from now you’ll just have to replace it again!

Please tell me the new gear is all metal....

I’ll be the first to say our immigration policy is complicated. After my parents escaped a Communist nation, they waited 2 years in a temporary host country until they finally got through America’s immigration process. So I know how complicated it can be and my heart goes out to those with tough situations. That said:

When in doubt, Chevy it out.

Yes, it had to be luxurious to attract a wider field of buyers than would a simple, stripped-down race car, but the real point of the car was to meet a set of engineering targets in a production road car.

I don’t think Bugatti engineers started with “let’s make the most expensive car” and backed into it being the fastest, but rather the opposite.

Sorry, I don’t think a well modified anything is hitting 250+ mph like a Veyron.

Hahaha, glad we see eye to eye. I am actually pick one up as a DD when they get cheap enough. My only two complaints on the car are timing belt rather than chain, and that it is “wrong wheel drive.”

To answer this question, first you have to answer how you define “best.”

The First Gen TL was clean, if not a little boring; it kind of looked like a Camry. And I found the FWD longitudinally mounted engine to be silly: should have just been RWD at that point. That said, I still think the Third gen was far superior, both stylistically, and by every measure performance aspect.

“Everything is racist”

Here in California, we have the toughest emission testing in the Union, and absolutely no safety inspection, which I always found amusing. But truth be told, as you pointed out, I do feel safety inspections can be a slippery slope, especially with modified cars or, worse yet, kit cars.

As long as I don’t have to put a stupid sticker in my window, I’m down.

Indeed. Maybe there’s a place for the dull, for the plain, for the boring.

Oh, and of course Acura TLs...

To be fair, for the “stock is best” argument, you are using an STi, which is, indeed, setup from the factory to be capable of a track day, while still being livable day to day. But in defense of modification, few street cars from the factory are track ready. Most cars, I have found, will at the very least need proper…

Hehehe, this is exactly the commercial I was referencing!

I blame Toyota for this crap. They are the ones that pioneered the idea of “Sporty Shit-box” with their Corolla S; a Corolla with some ground effects and interior accents. Now everyone has jumped on the bandwagon with commercials of drivers hooning customers around a track in boring econoboxes, wowing them at its ...…