Ah yes, get a DSG because then your transmission can also suffer random and unexplained bouts of complete and utter mechanical and electrical indifference to the world and it gives yet one more expensive bill when everything goes wrong once the warranty runs out...

Agreed.

Well-groomed or traveled dirt rods would be up your alley. So much fun to explore back roads and have a change of pace without worrying about sudden drops like an off road trail. Plus you’ve got the bike and tire to handle it no problem while a standard bike might pitch a fit. 

As someone who is building skill on a KLR650, I have come to appreciate just how willing to play dual sports and adventure bikes can be. You learn how to use things like those big, heavy, spoked wheels to your advantage and realize that most of your bike’s weight is both low, and in two big honkin gyroscopes. The KLR…

I always like the GTI as a new car, but never as a used car. Every generation they say it won’t be like that and just as the new generation is getting ready to launch, the wheels fall off the first year or two of the previous generation. Mk7 *might* be an exception. Maybe. Perhaps. 

Oy, we’re going for the big guns now....

Oh come on now, concept cars don’t count. Obscure, road legal, “production” cars are where this game is won!

I’m a simple man - if NPoCP comes up as NP, I buy it.

I see your Plymouth Cricket Formula S and raise you a Lamborghini Silhouette

Show me a Talbot-Matra Murena or put an (Almost) on that title, Mr. So-called Automotive Journalist!

PREACH!

This looks like some kind of monstrosity that explodes upon launch in Kerbal Space Program. 

Yeah I yanked the wheels off of one of my bikes and did the same right before we got a weekend of freezing rain...

I’m 6'2" and 235 lbs and I fit in it just fine. I’m amazed. Even with the tech-IV, I’m looking forward to scooting around in traffic in it.

Man, these pontiac posts and now a Fiero one are making me excited to continue work on my 1985 Fiero. Unfortunately, Michigan has been deciding that end of April is when we should get snow and freezing rain the past few weekends soooooooo yeah.....not quite yet.

10 years after launch, and the PT cruisers on the lots of used car dealerships were still putting driver’s deep into debt for far more than the car was worth. That’s my first mental thought is predatory “no money down” signs on the windows of a PT in the beginning stages of rustbelt-itis. You just know someone is…

Yeah, it is very common for the nearest gas stations to these drag strips to get cleaned out of premium and race gas is often gone before the racing starts for the day. 

The transmissions in these things impress me the most since they do drive through small towns and side roads. So not only does it have to take a massive hit of torque while doing drag runs, they also have to then go up and down gears at low rpm while pulling a trailer for miles on end. 

And beer. For after the races.

Street wheels and tires all around and it might have a quick disconnect rear but the core of the vehicle is there.