Because when they’re doing 45 mph and a pedestrian steps into the road, most people can threshold brake well enough to not lock the wheels up, yet keep the max pressure needed to stop in a distance shorter than w/ ABS.

Take your star.

I said crack pipe before I even clicked on the article and saw the cobbled together nature of the car. Know why? I wouldn’t pay 17k for any VW where the bumper doesn’t meet the fender correctly.

Theoretically, you could run lean for a brief moment IF it sucked air in, and you were at high load (like full acceleration), but I doubt it would go lean long enough before the ECU pulled back timing or threw everything into limp mode. That’s a lot of “if’s”. Besides, who is out there running wide open throttle when…

How can I give you more than one star?

Easy fix for a decent body shop, or do what the Subaru WRX/STI guys have done for years: trade trunk lids with someone with a “lesser” wingless model and be done with it.

Don’t think they’d give you cash value, but you could always turn around and unload the car to any dealer for 20 (and I’m sure most would take it), pay whatever you owed in taxes and still end up with a healthy wad of cash in your pocket.

Exactly. A Camry/Avalon high-grade mirror w/ all the bells and whistles is already over a 1000 dollars, not including the painted skullcap ...

Exactly what I was getting ready to post.

That wasn’t in his Budget.

If I do the math with those 2 MPG figures and current fuel costs where I live (for diesel and 87), it’s about 50 dollar difference in favor of the diesel ... so definitely not worth it in my opinion. What would make it worth getting a VW diesel is the post-modification warranty that covers just about everything!

I don’t think there is a saving of 3000 to be had even if manufacturers ripped out all the emissions equipment (air pump, catalytic converters, etc), and went back to port fuel injection as well ... they still have to assemble the car for the most part in the same fashion, and the parts cost isn’t that great to the…

It’s ramp art. Says right below it.

My dad had a 1st gen Talon that had the big fancy (very 90s) stereo with equalizer etc. When he got it the CD player didn’t work. It wouldn’t even take a CD ... until maybe 2 years later when we were driving somewhere (I was probably 14 at the time) and I happened to have a CD case with me and I tried ... and it took…

Why does everyone keep making square-ish wheel arches on trucks/SUVs? It looks like garbage! 

I’d totally rock those! Oh you got a F350 Dually? That’s cute, I got a VW ... double-dually. 

Pretty sure you’re right. 

there you go, I fixed it for you.

Can you please tell me how counterfeit wheel center caps can be dangerous? 

COTD material.