“tow ball to sheer.”  That should be “shear”; “sheer” means you can see through it.  

Most of the horror stories you’ve heard about the Minis likely come from 2007-2011 generation, specifically the turbocharged cars. That generation ranks up there with RX-8's, in that the engines grenade at about 110k, and cost more than the car is worth to fix. So you won’t see too many on Craigslist; most get…

Reminds me of the Uranus Fudge Factory billboards in MO, on I70 I think.

It’s a racket.  There’s one little bitty sign at the first toll both telling you to pick up a ticket, and that’s it.  They know it.  They don’t care.

This is attractive, unlike the bordello-red interiors of some of the MK1 TT’s (shudder)

You had me until 8 speed ZF transmission

The most obvious mark of a moron, regardless of situation, is that when they do something stupid, and it doesn't work, they think they need to do it harder....

How do they reproduce complex body panels like these?

What everyone is missing is that it. doesn’t. matter. Car People know and care about subjects like these, do their research, and act accordingly. Everyone else asks the salesperson or their friend Marge, and buys AWD, even after you’ve done your best to convince them that the wilds of Florida don’t require it.

Five minute charge times and 300 mile range are nice goals, but they aren’t going to help the average driver. They need:

There’s a couple of ways you can go at things in general:

Somewhere out there, was a young and inexperienced engineer who probably never wrenched on his own car, and who put a through hole in, instead of a blind hole, so something could be machined all from one direction (money savings) Even with all of the FMEA’s (look it up; basically a process to ask: “what could go…

Funny, I did the same thing, with the same exact wording...

This may have been said in the 227 comments, but since Kinja sends me back to the beginning every time I click “load more comments”..

+1 I've an 09 with 2.5 naturally aspirated engine and almost zero problems. Zippy and fun

This. I remember reading a Car and Driver review of “cheap cars” where they dinged the loser for... not having power windows. I read a review here the other day where they suggested going up market $3k to get better electronics on a golf. Auto reviewers are like real estate sales people; at some point they lose their…

This is like a Mr. Bean movie

167 comments, six show. It's been fun, but I can't take the lousy system anymore. For a site where the appeal is the comments, this doesn't work. See ya

I learned that when replacing BMW window motors (‘cause you will be replacing them), you buy a bunch of panel clips (‘cause you’ll break them), plus the molded liner (‘cause you’ll rip it), plus the adhesive.

If you look in the same Cincinnati Craigslist, you’ll see two other 951's, one at $16k for 67k miles and nice condition, and one at $11k and 117k miles, also in pretty nice condition. So I’m sure the owner feels this isn’t that far out of that range. Having said that, the cost of putting the paint right pretty much…