The clutch is the weak part. If you go full stage 1 on a manual, you’ll want to upgrade the clutch as well.

You can buy low-mileage late revision is20 turbos used on almost any Mk7 forum for about $300. Get a JB4 ($380 new, ~$300 used) that you can completely remove and is undetectable when removed. When that turbo goes, spend an afternoon swapping in a new one, and enjoy the extra power. There are guys running some…

Better yet, buy a Golf Sportwagen, toss in a Burger Tuning JB4 for $380, and you’ll have an equally fast wagon.

Which one? The SP2 or the BMW?

Who’s cross-shopping a new BMW against a tiny air-cooled VW. Nobody, that’s who. This SP2 is a colletor’s car, and will be worth quite a bit more in the coming years. The BMW will become a used BMW, and will be worth half of this in 2 years.

It’s an absurd price, to be sure, but these things are following air-cooled Porsches in valuation. It will cost more than this in the coming years. If you want an SP2, you can pay this now, or a lot more later. As such, NP.

Well, you checked wrong. Here’s all of the oil filters they stock for a 1987 Niva:

I think “leafs” is the correct plural.

They have Nivas covered.

That sounds amazing. NP

It’s a Challenger. Which is how you can tell this was an EF-4 storm. When wind can lift a big fat pig like a Challenger and toss it as if it were merely a Mustang, you know it’s serious.  

It looks like the car a guy with a fresh tribal tattoo would drive while blasting Limp Bizkit on repeat. I’d rather drive a pink Barbie edition than be caught in this or the COD versions.

Oh, I hear you, we are talking about a 12-year old Daimler-Chrysler here. I’m just making the point that a ported head, a street cam, and some headers isn’t going to grenade an engine that wasn’t going to grenade stock.

It originally had a 5.7, which was replaced by a 6.1. Porting and polishing the heads will not make the engine any less reliable, nor will a cam. The reason cars don’t come out of the factory ported and polished is the labor involved. And the reason they don’t come cammed is because people would complain about…

Most wagons have heavy-duty springs out back to account for the extra weight, along with bigger bump stops than their sedan counterparts. This becomes increasingly clear with sports springs lowering the front. The rake on this one looks 100% factory correct to me. All SRT Magnums look like this, and the…

Conversions using OEM platform-specific parts are the exception. This thing isn’t cobbled together and “engineered” by some goofball in his parent’s garage- it uses factory engineering and factory parts. NP.

You know what? I was ready to vote CP after reading the headline, but this thing actually seems pretty nice. Where else are you going to find a 400+hp RWD wagon with all of the modern safety equipment in this shape for this price?

Getting more involved? Like what? Attending campaign rallies? Voting?

There are two of these that I see frequently, and they have a lot of presence in-person. The lines are timeless, and it’s rare to see such a large car with the top down that’s not American. A quintessential Boulevard cruiser. NP 

Correct. It would make me look like a barely-successful realtor who couldn’t quite afford the Lexus RX350.