This car is really the ultimate air cooled 911: just 20 were built, it had a twin-turbo 3.6 L flat six making 430 hp, and all that power was sent just to the rear wheels.

Everyone's playing by the same rules though, so what's the issue?

The root problem is the entire survey process. It's unreasonable. There's no middle ground between perfection and failure. A "good" survey is perfect 10's across the board. A 9/10 score equals failure. These surveys are tied to huge financial benefits/penalties for both the dealership and its salespeople, so they've…

While it's sure to be totaled there appears to be no mechanical damage.

Planned obsolescence.

"Miata is always the answer."

Step 1: Cut a hole in the box.

And I admit, Steven makes an interesting point, because the thing they have in Europe is fuel economy. I have been to Europe several times, and while I routinely bemoan the fact that my rental car over there is always some sort of fax-machine-sized hatchback with a motor sourced from a paper shredder, I must admit…

You wouldn't be allowed to operate a 2-way radio either.

Most of it has been covered here already. We had wheel hose reels, multiple chairs made of car seats, fire pit made out of a wheel from a big rig, and one of my boss's buddies made a mailbox out of a transmission housing. Our pen cups on the counter were made of coil springs cut to the appropriate height with a small…

I used to work for a junkyard. We used old car parts for an amazing amount of stuff.

Emergency trunk release handles glow in the dark and are great for marking anything you'd need to easily find in a dark room. I used to live in a place where the basement lights didn't have switches, just old style single-bulb lights with pull cords. I grabbed a bunch of these things from the junkyard and tied them to…

Wheels make great hose reels.

One of our dealerships uses a Cummins piston for a doorstop. It actually works really well and makes for a nice conversation piece.

Subaru came up with a solution for that.

GF and I have an SX4 and it's awesome. One of the market's best kept secrets.