I saw a couple of these at the Wanli booth at the Tokyo Auto Salon this year. Tread pattern is different on the lead pic, though. I wonder who’s the manufacturer on those.

They were thinking “Hey, that Opel has a Buick-ish sounding name. Let’s badge engineer one of those. We won’t even have to change the name.”

Yeah, this was a full on school, and he was a full on teacher. If it were an eikaiwa, it probably wouldn’t have been worth mentioning. :) I’m not entirely sure on the details on why he jumped ship, but something in the work environment there must have really bothered him.

Yeah, that sounds about right. Funnily enough, one of those guys actually jumped from a private school to the public system. I hope you have a better go at it than he did!

Well, I wish you the best of luck with whatever you end up doing. I’m in a similar position, but circumstances pretty much dictate that I’m going to leave in a couple of years. As much as I’d like to stay, I know that there’s probably no permament place for me here in Japan. I know a few people who have been at it…

How is Sunshine? Better or worse? We’re supposed to be getting new editions of NH this year, right?

Yay! Which textbooks are you using?

I know those grammatical patterns. 二年生？

Haha, okay. I was going to say that I could try and get my buddy to hook you up with something, but VA is a little too far from Japan for him to deal with. :)

Where are you located?

It’s not as bad as you think. Sometimes, I’ll try to “downshift” into reverse from third (inside, back) if I’m really flustered, but you get the hang of it pretty quickly. Remembering to stay on the right side of the lane however is still a subconcious thing I’m trying to fix.

The question wasn’t about power. It was about looks.

Fun fact: Snowmobile tuners have gotten 150hp out of the later model engines, a 130% increase over stock.

They should be coming up on legal soon if they aren’t already. Model year 1991 is the earliest production year.

garage condos and residential sites.

What would that be, like a 5 rotor?

Hahaha, I remember those days. If felt as if most of the other “groups” in the sport compact community didn’t really like hanging out with those guys. Like, the import guys would more or less tolerate each other, no matter if you had a Toyota, Nissan, Honda, or whatever. The Ford and Chrysler/Dodge guys had thier…

So buy one anyway. Find a non-wrx hood, and get a front mount intercooler. Problem solved!

You’re wrong, Tavarish. I knew damn well going into this that this car is something that I needed.

I don’t know, man. The ocean is polluted enough, isn’t it?