Just like back when there was a Republican in the White House and the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was tied to a 10% decrease in highway funding? Yeah, Texas really showed the feds who was boss on that one. At the state level, your politicians (both sides of the aisle) are already bitching about how you’re not…

This trick is still being used by Ford to import the Transit Connect work van.

That’s big talk, but things like EPA compliance have a way of getting tied to Federal highway spending. No politician is going to leave $3B on the table to suck up to some import drivers.

The EPA doesn’t have to come to your door, because eventually you’re going to need to renew your registration.

Those people don’t buy imports.

The US accounts for less than 10% of VAG’s total sales. If they can skip the whole bill by shutting down all of their operations here, they will. As with any corporate fine, the government will negotiate down to the most they can get without throwing away the jobs and tax revenue.

Best headlight tape ever.

But not too clean. When I see a freshly detailed engine, I start to wonder how many leaks the seller is trying to cover up.

The original Nomad. Too think that there could have been a whole series of Corvette based shooting brakes.

It’s what happens when you design a tube frame without thinking about where the windows are going to go.

“This Kelmark was built in somebody’s shop or garage, and there’s a special class of people who appreciates such efforts.”

And either an engine hoist or a twelve pack and a lot of bandaids to replace the spark plugs.

The Big Wheel was high tech. It had a little plastic motor clicker on one of the back wheels so your lips wouldn’t go numb.

If you’re too old for this, you’re too old to go around making fake engine noises.

Strictly speaking, positive ground is the right way around, but electrical engineers seem to like trolling physicists by explaining the standard (at least in the US) negative ground convention by way of mythical positive charge carriers. But I’m a mechie, so it’s all just dry plumbing to me.

No. It means it’s one of the only British vehicles wired the right way around.

No, but in a front wheel drive car you have to take what you can get.

Steel rotors can warp if you clamp them hot an let them cool down. The rotors on the One:1 are ceramic.

That’s what the little R on the shifter is for.

Have each driver in the livery of their first race car.