Can you get COTD off yesterday’s COTD article?

I posted a story above and just had to replace my clutch at 80k (I’ve owned it for about 20k)

Was letting my best friend, who is reasonably new at stick and doesn’t drive often, drive my 2007 AP2. I was egging him on and told him to shift 5th-4th at highway speed to pass someone... and he found 2nd by accident. I girl-screamed as I saw the revs shoot up and the car wiggled, and he put the clutch in immediately…

I think the golf/Jetta family get uglier every update since the mk6. That one had the most perfect curves and lines. Now the hood is more condensed and squared off in weird ways, and the rear view looks like.it once had good proportions until they squished it downward from the decklid. Everything looks too stretched…

I miss my mk6. I had 6 people in it once with one guy in the trunk and everyone was fine for a little jaunt across town. But it's always hilarious to feel the difference of putting 7 people in a car that small!

As the other thing to consider is the additional cargo space with the seats folded. For me, that more than makes up for the 2in of legroom for passengers. I had a GTI for 5yrs and everyone was always impressed with the comfort and space. 90% of your time in a car will be solo driving to work anyway.

Im SO ready for the next album to drop!

Apex/pubg/fortnite, cod/moh/bf/r6/any multiplayer shooter, Forza/rr/gt, horizon/nfs.

Good Lord. That is a lot of buttons around that shifter. Earlier in the article I was ready to praise BMW for cleaning up the center console areas beneath the screen, but that looks like those Porsche interiors from a few years back that were just a strip of 500 buttons down each side. It’s less convenient and less…

That’s absolutely awesome! It definitely sounds like that guy found his forever car. 

My baby is this 2007 S. I pretty much daily it. Totally stock except the radio head and door speakers. I flew from Texas to Wisconsin to buy her and drove her three full days back. No plans for mods. She's perfect as she comes.

Oh, that Evora too.. this is like 3 of my most desirables in one picture

“6'2"

But these cars are meant to be driven “hard.” Honda quality. If you need power just always downshift. That’s why I drive a manual, because I like to have that extra control. Driving a manual is a self imposed limitation, and having power through the whole range like my old mk6 GTI sort of takes some of the fun away. I…

This is why I love my 5-speed ‘99 CR-V. Picnic table and waterproof cooler built into the trunk? Yep. Tire on the outside of the split tailgate? Yep. Fisher-price large sized plastic sturdy dials and storage drawers? Yep. The OG CR-V was truly awesome before it became the amorphous blob it is today.

“but the design house turned automaker decided it was more appropriate to stick to a design language people already associate with Pininfarina”

I hate teens who treat these cars as straight line machines. They’re for the turns and battling to keep the power band in the high revs. It may be loud and all but you aren't accelerating as fast as it feel like you are... Source: am S2k owner past puberty, and I know my car isn't as fast as it sounds like in the…

Yep. Same here. I bought my S2k a few years ago for probably 25% more than it’s actually worth, but I haven’t looked back. It’s worth every penny if it makes you happy enough. Obviously not something exorbitant or bank-breaking... But a good condition, unmolested example of your dream car? Worth it. 

As a somewhat youthful mid-twenties person who was excited by the B99 reference and curious about Joe’s past,

The manual isn’t cheaper to produce anymore. They’ll sell more automatics. It’s become a premium feature because they have to engineer a manual version of the car and package it in numbers that will sell. I don’t care if the manual becomes a premium option as long as it stays around. I don’t want to be forced to buy a…