hey, I’m usually right there with you on project cars. Especially EFI ones; there’s always some insane wiring changes somewhere that you’re never gonna figure out.

I went against better judgment and voted ‘nice price’ on a project car.

The Genesis coupe is an unsung and underappreciated vehicle Sure, it’s a relatively mediocre mass-market coupe, but we all sometimes forget that when you take a mediocre coupe and put a premium badge on it, it’s suddenly competitive with 328 and A5 coupes, and mediocrity is therefore ignored.

look, here’s the deal:

I used to build vintage jeeps for fun and profit, and I never understood why they stopped making the Scrambler. Then, when the Unlimited came out as a LWB, it was like they ‘almost’ got it back, and the longer wheel base on the Unlimited was transformative. No jeep is a cake walk to drive at length, but the…

I recently saw a Jaguar F Type R outside of a Jo Ann’s Fabrics store. Just seems weird for the driver of a fire-breathing Jag shopping for yarn among all the Subaru Forester owners. I mean.. how does that happen? do you destroy the ego of a Porsche owner on your way to buy a bolt of fabric for your granddaughter’s…

diesel torque is like my Father In Law: he’s great about getting up off the couch at a moment’s notice, but getting him to do anything after that at an acceptable pace is pathetic.

it was once said that if you think money can’t buy happiness, then try not to smile while on a jetski.

this.

No, I publically build new bridges and secretly rage against the fact that there’s seemingly bottomless funds available for gee-whiz smart bombs to blow up bridges in in some far-flung nation, but there aren’t two dollar bills to rub together to patch the holes in US bridges that your kid’s school bus goes over every…

there’s a certain irony in the fact that a precision munition designed to destroy a bridge probably costs more than a new bridge.

This Doka’s greatest value, which is far in excess of the $27k asking price, is it’s metaphorical representation of the VW business model:

someone has to go dig up the “If Microsoft and Sun Systems” made a car gag from like 20 years go.

sooner or later (sooner) the 110+ year old rail nfrastructure will rear its ugly head in cost.

Diesel will be dead. It’s already dead, no one has buried the body yet. You need to get over this and move on.

Ah, the new Audi A3; the car voted most likely to be bought for someone’s overprivileged daughter. It truly is the VW Cabrio of the 21st century.

Jeep CJ-7.

you call it brilliance until it’s your car and another one of their ‘brilliant’ gadgets malfunctions and costs you money. The thing that irritates me the most is that this ‘design philosophy’ can probably be seen in every other crappy thing VW done to their customer base over the years from gunking turbo gasser…

I would agree if VW didn’t lose something like $6.25M on every Veyron they sold on the last go at it. That’s a big gap to close. Better to close up shop.

so in the face of billions of dollars in losses, VW chooses to continue production on a money losing hyper car instead of a 3 row SUV, an inheritor to the microbus, next gen CC/Passat/Jetta, or even diving into the super-hot WUV (that’s a Wagon Utility Vehicle like an Outback) with crap they already make in Europe.