Google sheets is the trick man. It doesn’t matter who’s driving the car when it needs filled up, as long as everybody in the family has access to the workbook. It’s stored in the cloud, so it’ll never disappear when your phone falls in wet concrete. And it’s easy to plot your fuel usage rate over distance to detect…

“Then again, does any other singular factor really determine a used car’s viability?”

Now how do we get bro-dozer drivers to start installing Mansfield bars?

TOTALLY get your complaint with the turbo engine off boost. As may be obvious just by the post you replied to, snappy throttle response is one of my very top priorities in a sports car. I’ve just about sworn off turbos because of it. And that’s unfortunate for me, given what’s out there for sale these days. (I haven’t…

Interesting. What you’re describing as the primary advantage of a manual doesn’t even make my list of factors. I don’t mean that to imply there’s anything wrong with your preference. You like what you like. But the act of shifting has very little to do with why I love manual transmissions so much. The feel when NOT…

So you’re saying that your gear ratios were chosen poorly. That would be every bit as annoying with an automatic as it is with a manual. VW decided to cripple one of the options and not the other. That’s not because the type of transmission is bad.
I’m curious: What year is your GTI? My Golf has sensibly selected…

I mean no offense, but do you understand the difference between an automatic and a manual transmission? Are you thinking of another part of a car or something? Because I just cannot come up with what you might have meant to say here.
There are a lot of reasons manual transmissions are better than automatic…

Well, my trust in diesel took a bit of a hit yesterday, with a DPF related CEL at just 100k miles.

This is exactly why I don’t own a corvette.

It probably didn’t have synchronizers. If you don’t know how to rev match, getting into anything other than first gear would be very challenging.

That’s a good point. I probably would take it to the track, and maybe playing that up could help. It’s somewhat illogical, but I could actually see “I bought a track car and end up needing to drive it to work a lot of days” being received better than “I decided to buy a Porsche as my daily driver.”

My current workplace is WAY too small for that. There’s no hiding or downplaying what you drive here.

Such a simplistic view is wonderful in an ideal world.
In the real world, at least my real world, those colleagues have major influence over when/whether I get promoted and how much I get paid. And in that same real world, money matters. A lot. Especially to people with expensive hobbies like ours.

I’m seriously considering buying one, and I’m worried about that exact issue. So how much does it really bug you and affect you? Do you get comments?

I’m seriously considering buying one, and I’m worried about that exact issue. So how much does it really bug you and affect you? Do you get comments?

What do used Viper/SRT-4 seats go for? They have serious bolstering, recline, and are reasonably comfortable.

The driving tips in here are very good stuff, but the physics explanation is a little off.

These are good and thought provoking. Thankfully I’m aware enough to avoid most of them, but I’m guilty of a couple of them without realizing the possible negative implications.

I got one of these surveys after buying a VW.
The buying experience was pretty bad. Terrible actually. But at the same time, no worse than pretty much every dealership car buying experience. They design it to be a shitty experience. Any time you have to haggle to get a fair price, it’s a bad experience.
So I responded…

Exactly.
They claim to be focusing heavily on sound quality, and then they put out a device smaller than a basketball. It will not sound good. In fact it will sound bad. Hoffman’s Iron Law guarantees it.
Sure, maybe it could sound “good” if you only compare it to other itty-bitty sound systems. But bragging about being…