I have the original key to my '89 244 (210k) but the '92 745Ti (211k, unknown mileage on the engine) came with a hardware-store key. Ah, well, the keys suit each car's character.

Exactly! I've never driven anything that'd count as a true 'sports car', but a few sport compacts have given me a bit of comparison to my daily-driver - a 20-year-old Volvo 745T that, for its first year in my care, was driven without boost.

Keep in mind that the AE-86 GT-S, optionless, was apparently around 2200 lbs and 112 HP - this car's 2,662 lbs with 197 HP. 13.5 pounds per pony compared with 19.6. Maybe it's heavy compared to the old car (a given with today's crash-test standards and padded options lists), but it shouldn't be slow.

Even if a Subaru with STI badging and an untouched powerplant is heresy, that thing is damned pretty. Especially for, y'know, a Subaru.

Hopefully so. If this supplants the tC and has an out-the-door price, for a base stick-shift example, around $20k, I'll contemplate selling organs...

'Reaming' is an awfully violent verb.

Wait, you... you're heartclicked? Christ, man. Takes a dickhead to know one.

Good man, MrSam. Good man.

I scrapped my parts car today ('89 244 with the rockers/trunk floor half-gone and everything dried out from sitting) and wished I could have given it the same sort of sendoff. I did the next best thing, though - took everything usable out of it before it left. It'll help my other '89 244 and my '92 745Ti live on.

I'm in exactly the same situation. Probably best that I not suggest an Audi to any of my friends, though.

Agreed - at which point they could lower their prices (however little), accordingly, bringing in more traffic. Imagine a Giving-Your-Parking-Fines-Back-To-You Sale!

Are you, by chance, a Turbobricker? I feel as though I already know, and have forgotten, the answer.

Being from New England and not acting like a total cock (most of the time), I was mistaken for Canadian last time I was in Scotland, for what that's worth. I was oddly proud of myself.

Agreed. I don't believe I've ever more than doubled the speed limit of any road (my speedometer needle won't turn past 90) - but everywhere I've done more than 70 MPH has been, at least, a wide two-lane with good visibility and few entrances, and only when traffic permits. If I miscalculate or part of my car fails, I…

But still no - make it a Range/Land Rover. Not as though those have never had two doors.

They did manage, if I recall correctly, to make the all-wheel-drive model punt most of its torque to the rear wheels - that makes a cramped engine bay and half-shafts less unappealing.

You can generally tell the dangerous Volvos, like Subaru Outbacks and old, unmodified pickup trucks and Buicks, by the quantity and topic of bumper stickers. Politically-charged slogans (left-wing on Volvos or Subarus, right-wing on trucks and Buicks) are especially likely to indicate incompetence.

This is why you're heart-clicked, Flicky.

@Admiral _Engineer: It's my hope that somewhere out there, there's a Hummer H2/H3 with the grille and headlights from a G-body.

@Dr. Homer Bowtie: I'm sure.