My Subaru Outback has a little hex wrench thing that you can use to manually retract the parking brake if the battery dies (which in an Outback is guaranteed to happen sooner or later).

One to drive, one to fix and one for parts.

More like Air BringATrailer.

Not to mention the “crumple zones” on newer cars may require that entire subframes be replaced, even if they appear to be undamaged. Just because it looks OK doesn’t mean it didn’t absorb some of the impact, and may not be able to absorb as much as it’s supposed to the next time.

And let’s not forget the Tesla’s #1 failure: You can’t open the glove box without using the touch screen! Audi’s going to be pulling buyers from the Tesla waitlist right and left!

I understand nostalgia and all, but I have a really hard time getting worked up over *any* pickup from the 70s. We had an F250 Camper Special with a 360 back in the day, it was ugly and loud and got about 15MPG. I don’t recall any pickups of that era being attractive, and this example certainly doesn’t change my mind.

ISTR much of the original TT design was done by Freeman Thomas when he was at Porsche. They made a big presentation to the board, but the project wasn’t approved, so he just stuck it back in his sketchbook and eventually pulled it out again when he was at VW.

Yeah, sorry, but when I’m putting myself on the hook for thousands of dollars, I do the math myself. Someone with a vested interest in the outcome telling me I can afford it does NOT reassure me. I know what I can afford, they have to either meet my budget or find another buyer.

I thought it was Renault that made the cars?

But I understood Hurley Haywood is a champion Porsche driver, is he not?

Twelve-leg drive, I think you mean!

No, it’s forever eclipsed by the shining metropolis of Lake Oswego.

A two second discussion with anyone with a science degree high school education would have set them straight.

Wait, wasn’t the 912 just a 911 with the powertrain from a 356?

the glovebox is for convenience items that get a much higher priority for storage there than a book I need once a year on average.

Actually I just saw this exact thing last week. Commuting to work, bumper-to-bumper stop-and-go traffic, some woman in a Mazda3 thought if she could get her nose in front of a Peterbilt that she had the right-of-way and the truck would let her in. Which it might have, if the driver had any idea she was there. Instead…

You list M3 and M4 and bring Mercedes into the discussion but ignore the Cayman and Boxster? And the S4 is not a bad choice either.

Which explains why the Subaru Forester is so popular.

Bankruptcy is pretty disruptive, maybe they’re on (to?) something.

That’s apparently a problem in 944s. The solution in that case is to remove the cruise control unit and re-flow all the solder joints.