How many ‘94 Celicas could be left at this point, with Scotty being as popular as he is? I mean, according to him, it’s the only car in the world that isn’t a money pit.

The often sound cool. Whether that’s better depends on the person and the application.

But how will I trigger the libz?

Easier to troubleshoot? I guess I don’t see how a mile of air pipes and fittings and a pump *and* all the switches to run it is simpler than just the switches, wires, and solenoids.

Interesting, considering that they’re famous for complex and expensive answers to questions nobody asks.

I think most of us understand that the 2JZ and the RB26 aren’t overengineered so much as they’re overbuilt.

The 12V 2.8L V6 and the 20V 1.8T L4 were mechanically seriously overbuilt. The 1.8T, if memory serves, is a pedestrian evolution of a racing engine. I don’t know about overengineered, but they’re definitely overbuilt. They ended up being unreliable because of all the janky crap they bolted to them and the horribly…

I’m convinced that VAG has a department whose mandate is to design terrible cupholders. My late ‘90's Audi had something kind of like that, with a damped shelf and little floors that popped out. It came out of the dash in such a way that using it would block the HVAC vents and some of the lighting controls (the…

I think that should be an option, but you should be able to change that radio out. We had DIN. It was great. Radio broke? Want a simpler one? Want one that’s fuck-off complicated? Great! Change it out!

My late ‘90's Audi had vacuum actuated locks. They’ve got some seriously evil engineers working over there.

All those parts you gave a pass used to be fairly unreliable and have improved over time. I suspect these fancy door handles will improve over time.

I don’t think the Slant-6 is overengineer so much as it’s well engineered. Overengineered is generally used to refer to something as having much more complexity than is necessary apparently for complexity’s sake. The Slant-6 is pretty basic.

Either this is bullshit or they’ve got miserable kids and the miserable outlook that goes with it.

Yeesh, it’s real? I assume you mean you’ve never paid more than $5 for one because I can’t imagine anybody would be willing to pay more than that.

Oh, I thought they both sucked. The V6 probably fits much better in there. TIL!

And a tolerance for overly complicated, underthought, buggy, laggy, interfaces, it seems.

Yup.

I always assumed that diesel Cayennes were as difficult and ruinously expensive to service as their cousin, the Touareg. Is this not true?

It never ceases to amaze me that they release these half-baked interfaces. It’s as if their testing process doesn’t actually involve a person trying to use their controls.

As a Chicagoan, you may be able to answer: is the Chicago Handshake a real thing that people are actually served or is that a myth?