To answer your question it’s been about a month since I’ve seen one - There is an Italian Ice company in my town that uses one of these as their vendor vehicle. They’ve been around for years, so I wouldn’t doubt if they’ve had it since new.

That certainly is an iconic look with that saturation and grain. It’s really hard to know what film stock they used, but it most likely was some form of Kodak Vision. For the night shots it would have probably been Vision 800T, and interestingly enough you can get the modern day Vision3 500T film that’s related to it…

I think the right answer is tires for most people, but if you have a turbo car already then uncorking the exhaust and giving it a tune is probably the best single bang-for-your-buck mod you can do.

Or it just says how slow the new one still is...

To your first point, don’t the Yamaha bolt and the SCR950 scrambler share the same platform too? I agree platform sharing isn’t the way to the sharpest riding bikes in each segment, but it’s an efficient way into each segment and it’s hardly a sketchy idea when most of the other manufacturers do it as well to an…

I’ve had a turbo Subaru for a while now, thanks. Still hasn’t been 100% drama free but it’s a whole different league from my VW experience

Yeah, but the only thing that has to “run” in a car is the engine, and that part was never really the issue.

Despite all the work I had to do to keep mine going, with 4 snows on my 2002 GTI was a tank in the winter. Sold at 220k for a Subaru, which is just about the only thing that could probably beat it for winter handling

I’m not disagreeing with you, but the floppy suspension did teach me how to left foot brake to get the weight over the front wheels and rotate the back around. It worked so well I could get totally sideways on dry pavement and pull it back just by getting on the gas. Definitely made terrorizing your passenger easy...

Former 2002 1.8 GTI owner here (sold in 2013), and Stockholm syndrome is exactly how I describe it to people.

The 1984 and 1990 bmws I had were rock solid. 300k+ miles with nothing but routine maintenance solid, and probably would keep working even if you abused them solid.

My MK4 GTI made it to well over 200k as well and was still running strong. That said by that point I had rewired the entire dashboard (in the dead of a -29 degree C winter, with no garage). I also put a new valve cover gasket on as the last one leaked like a sieve and was fouling the ignition coils with oil, yet I…

Used to own a MKIV GTI. This is truth

With such an interesting build I’d like to Lagonda the hood

Short wheelbase/big motor car is a handful to drive - Who could have cygnet coming?

My debadged blue and silver Outback XT with a manual and a tune does a pretty good job of being sleeper-ish. Plus I’ve slept in the back, so it’s sort of a sleeper that you can sleep in.

Outback XT. I’ve had mine over 2 years and love it. Full disclosure, it’s had a few repairs including a replace of the manual transmission and the entire exhaust has been replaced. I just looked at it as a chance to upgrade stuff, including 3" stainless exhaust and a tune. It moves pretty good now! Headgaskets is a…

Welp, looks like it’s time to go back to homemade sound systems tapping power from streetlamps in the park...

Fellow graff head here, although it’s been maybe 10 years since I did any real writing. That said I also have a low tolerance for the “street artist” thing too, and your reaction was my initial reaction too as it seems to smack of a money grab.

Worst feeling in the world. It happened to me once on 90 somewhere between Utica and Rome NY at 2am. There was a sign for a service station 7 miles ahead, no cars passing by and the only lights anywhere was of the casino way off in the distance. I sat there for a while trying to think of what to do, then decided to…