Hey I saw this ad months ago! You almost never find ads like this in France, as you wouldn’t be allowed to drive it on the road. Our laws regarding car mods are strict beyond reason, so anything that isn’t stock sticks out.

So, the 760hp Ford crate motor is $5k more than the 807hp Mopar Hellcrate Redeye at $21,807? Interesting.

26K for this vs the Focus RS?

It looks so happy

The stupid custom license plate and boy racer decals tell me this thing is permanently going to smell like bubble gum vape and shitty weed. No dice.

I had a 75 mile comment once and often did the entire trip in the rain with the top down. Didn’t get wet until the last mile where I had to slow down to get of the interstate.

I upgraded to an Eos after owning a 1997 Cabrio. They were both fun cars and that Eos could go! As for the practicality of a convertible vs. a hatchback, I’d like to see a Golf move a 10u server or a futon. It’s easy to get stuff into the back seat if you can remove the roof and a convertible with the top down can —…

10% will. Roughly same percentage of the “platinum/executive” “FXTRXRD” “4x4 extreme” truck owners that haul/tow.

Why should there be one version of everything - the best truck, the best convertible, the best SUV? This kind of thinking is why we sit in traffic and lament that most of the cars are white, silver or black and mostly shaped the same. Bring on all the convertibles. Heck, chop the top off of pickups and SUVs. Sidecar…

How dare you! *sips pumpkin spice latte in GX460*

The ‘64 Avanti gets my vote as America’s all-time best styled car. No joke, all cars line up behind that model:

Counterpoint:  The Studebaker Avanti is EXTEMELY under-appreciated.

If you get home, it is reliable. My old cars are not reliable. Bless that roadside assistance rolled in with my insurance. 

I like the way you think...

It was startling. But then, oil’s well that ends well...

That’s nothing. Back in the old days, when you only had three NTSC broadcast channels to watch, you could get sludge so bad where the only clearances were from the moving parts knocking the sludge out of the way by the crank counterweights and rocker arms

In places where it doesn’t rain that much, I have no idea why more people don’t buy cars like this.  I have way too much fun in my convertible to ever give up having one.  Lifes too short to be boring.

I have never seen a Golf R Cabriolet. And I can’t recall a GTI version (though I might have seen it and not remember it).

I wonder at what point you call 911 and tell them you’re stranded on the side of the road with no way to make it to the “safe” shoulder. Certainly if someone were walking there without a car, they’d respond to a call about that. Even if the tow driver hasn’t left with your car and not you, it’s only a matter of time.

I believe a lot of it came about with Covid.