so, it’s slightly more expensive than the vastly more powerful Mustang GT350? interesting.

didn’t James Gardner used to rock a baja rigged 72 Olds Cutlass?

If you’re in the NY/NJ area, we’ve bought a number of Audis over the years at PAul Miller and I can recommend a contact for you.

not lightly used: new.

then you need to scour the couch cushions in your house and come up with the few extra dollars to get yourself an S4 instead of an S3. It’s a better car, period, and it comes with a stick.

dang. Missed the Golf R.

this idea already exists: it’s often called either the S3 or the GLA AMG

it had all the benefits of a WRX without the cheap interior and it wasn’t butt-ugly. of course it sold well.

“Mr Horn; can you please explain to the committee how it is possible that VW managed to build 2.1 MILLION cars with a complex feature that seemly worked flawlessly on every single one of them for the better part of a decade, but you can’t figure out how to make anything else on your cars work to a level even…

so... VW was foiled by WV? there’s a certain acronymical symmetry to that.

I’m going though this now with one of our cars.

you’ve clearly never owned a VAG product...

Don’t you know that diesel is the new poison fuel?

but, but.. they CAN’T stop making the Lancer!

Portland: where young people go to retire.

Everyone thought they were aluminum until they touched them and the rubber “casting” flexed like a cheap fake boob. They’re fake boob rims.

OBD3?

F-you for showing me that.

I’m digging the woody wagon, too.

I never said they were going away. I said they were fading into obscurity. How often do you count the number of Kias that cross your path. No one says “wow, nice Elantra, never seen one before!” I’m saying it’ll be the same with Audi. Mass market. Not ‘special’. Common. Off the enthusiast radar. Obscure.