Oh my sweet summer child. Try hooning a 200 Mitsubishi Eclipse GT with the heavy, torquey v6 over the front wheels. Now THAT’S torque steer!

New four-seat convertibles available with stick: Mini Cooper, Ford Mustang. Older options include Solara, Saab, Eclipse and a few others. It’s not easy to get that combination of no roof, three pedals and room for the child seat in the back.

Agreed. I’m a huge convertible fan and I hate anything with a basket handle. I also hate the PT Cruiser having had two of them inflicted up on me as rentals over the years. Despicable to look at and to drive.

You’re not wrong. I was downgrading* from a recently-finished 3-year lease on a (then new) 2000 Mitsubishi Eclipse GT Spyder and I was looking for a Solara Convertible. The VG in the GT made it a bit TOO much fun (and too expensive in speeding tickets and gas) and I liked the idea of Camry reliability in a 4-seat…

NP. What can I say - I’m a sucker for convertibles! Manual, drop top, rare, rotary, in great condition? Sure, it’s just barely above ‘fuckit’ money. I’d clean it up a bit, drive it around in the summer and hoon it whenever I got the chance. I’d sell it in a few years for about half what I paid and regret nothing.

Exactly this. If people are whining about having to meet minimum safety regulations it just means that the industry has been operating unsafely to the point where that’s the status quo. No one wants to work longer hours; that’s why we call it ‘overtime’ and pay workers more for it. So all of a sudden you’re not able…

Huh. And to think that when my GenX ass was in high school my biggest concern was instant annihilation due to sudden global thermonuclear war. That was at least a bit more abstract and somewhat less likely, if still something completely beyond my control.

Like many companies HD has a set of core values. Principles that we are to use in dealing with customers each other and our leaders. We have guide lines and practices designed to help associates work toward the HD goal of being the number 1 customer service retail in the world. However these values are often…

Long one here.

Meh. I hear much better things about Costco. Supposedly that’s a retail environment with particularly high morale. Something about having better benefits, respect from superiors, better pay, advance opportunities, etc.

No apology necessary, I’m happy to hear from someone who may actually know what they’re talking about. And yes, it did have the TSI engine. I did get it out on the highway every few days and I know I took it up over 80mph at least weekly. If that’s still not enough highway miles to prevent CEL-triggering carbon build…

When it stopped being fun to drive or own. At first my Eos was delightful: more luxurious inside than my older Mini convertible, plenty of power and a hardtop roof that stopped traffic whenever I put it up or down. I’d drop the top after taking my daughter to daycare and all the kids would rush to the window to watch…

Oh, my sweet summer child....

80k miles? Hah! My POS VW served up 3 crippling engine failures in 4 months well before hitting 30k miles! And the lying fucks at the VW dealership tried to tell me that was ‘normal.’ then they tried to blame me b cause my daily commute didn’t include enough highway miles. Then the stopped talking to me because I…

That and literally eating a baby.

Upvoted for your commitment to a topless lifestyle!

Nah, we weren’t poor vt any description. I just don’t think he wanted to put another penny into the thing as it fell apart. Now that I think about it, we were probably driving on bald tires for years...

You’ll be missed. Or perhaps I should say “missed.”

Oh really? Another staunch Republican who hates regulation right up to the moment some he cares about becomes a victim? You don’t say!

That’s $1995 more than I’d pay.