Neutral: I don’t like the idea of an internet-connected car for the same reasons I don’t like the Internet of Things - beyond giving attackers more surface targets into other systems, it’s just another piece of tech that will fall out of support and lose features long before its useful life is over.

What car costs that much for an alignment and plugs? Serious question.

I think it should come down to lap times - if the lapped driver has shown a best lap in line with or better than the leaders’ best laps and can maintain 99th percentile pace, count them as still in it and let them race. Full-course cautions, clever pit strategy, even freak weather (example: 24h Nurburgring last year)…

Offense, withholding, number one. Fifteen years penalty, still sales down.

And here I thought a 5 year / 60,000 mile powertrain warranty was the minimum you’d see across the industry. It’s one thing to adjust to market standards but this is just a terrible look for VW.

And it’s still easy to get off 93 and be less than 3 blocks from where you want to go or park in downtown Boston. The traffic still sucks but that’s not a failing you can pin on the highway alone.

Neutral: Probably about that or slightly worse. I’ve seen more sub-1% manufacturer financing offers and bigger customer cash offers in the past few weeks than I saw six months prior, and although they might move the needle slightly I doubt they’re overcoming the selling downturn.

Nah, I think we all enjoy passive safety features like pretensioned seatbelts, designated crumple zones, crush-resistant passenger structures, layered safety glass windshields, and collapsing steering columns.

You kids these days and your newfangled Video Cee Dees

Computers in cars were a mistake. We should’ve stopped at 8-bit microcontrollers when we had the chance. 

So, despite the fact that the strong lines and beefy bodywork of the Citycarver suggest it’ll be great for off-roading, you probably shouldn’t actually get too wild with it.

Great case. Tons of room to work in, airflow for days, 240/280 rad support both front and top out of the box, 360 on the front if you remove the drive cage. Was my first Fractal Design case of many - the premium’s worth it.

Great case. Tons of room to work in, airflow for days, 240/280 rad support both front and top out of the box, 360 on…

Excellent move.

Absolutely not. I looked at one of these as a possible first car in 2004 and the dealer was asking less for it with half the mileage and age. They’re good SUVs (with a bit of a Canyonero image problem) but they’re not classics. CP.

*Miatas and CX-5s

I see what you did there

Call me crazy but listen again - could it be the SkyActiv inline-6 with some conservative exhaust piping?

I feel like this car is low-volume enough, significant enough, and important enough to make a case for the vaunted 25-year import rule waiver here in the States. Anyone got a quarter million dollars and the guts to try?

This is officially the dumbest customization option I’ve ever seen, and I’ve spent more hours than I care to admit combing through MINI and Porsche configurators.

Man, it hurts me to CP a Previa, especially one this clean, but it’s at least $1,500 too high on the asking. With a clean 5-speed swap I could argue it, but these aren’t in excessively short supply. There’ll be more to come asking closer to fair market prices.