The engine was only too weak in the automatic. The 5-spd was perfectly pleasant, even with the 4cyl.

I'm always afraid that those people are going to try and talk to me out of some misguided belief that me driving a Golf means we have to be friends.

Yeah, they're real. There was one around here at one point, but it was a white-ish (eggshell?) hardtop. I haven't seen it in a while, so hopefully it's gone.

Oh, it's much better now, it really just took a full-on interior scrubbing (Shampoo, protectorant, the lot) and the lion's share is gone. I much prefer the current smell of the car to any freshener, but before it was pretty nasty.

It sure beats having your (used) car smell like stale cigarette smoke. I finally did just clean the metaphorical shit out of the thing, and that worked well, too.

I'd eat the hell out of that. You could also get a diced version from a turbocharged car.

So worth it! I was afraid that I'd finally get to do it, and then find out I had gotten lazy with all my automatic driving, but it was every bit as fun as I'd hoped, and then some.

There's one of those somewhere around here and it is, to this day, the weirdest thing I have ever seen on the road in person. Apparently some old couple owns it.

I'd drive that.

Unless you use your trunk to carry a couple of passengers, I don't think this one counts.

Yeah, but like I mentioned, I was struggling to believe that they could put that bad of an auto in the car. Apparently, though, they did.

I could certainly see the 911 being an issue for wider folks, but at 6'4" I was more than comfortable, length-wise.

Not having watched the video (slow internet/too lazy/some other excuse), so I may be missing some humor here, I've got to say the New Beetle has miles of leg room. At 6'5", I fit in one with room to spare. I'm not terribly girthy, but there seems to be plenty of room for larger folks, at least up front.

Odd, I'm the same height, and I fit just fine. It's snug, but blanket snug, like the car is hugging me.

Odd, considering it was designed specifically to fit Delorean, who was 6'4".

I think when he says it's nearly impossible for normal sized people, he means people who aren't giant. The Delorean was designed specifically to fit someone about the size of John Delorean - That is, around 6'4". In the earlier years of the car, it was extremely difficult for an average person to close the doors,…

I've actually found Volkswagens to be some of the most accommodating cars for tall people. Despite being 6'5", I had miles of head & leg room in my Beetle, and the same holds true now for my MkIV GTI. I even fit relatively comfortably in the back seat of my friend's 4-door MkIV golf TDI.

Nope, but I'll go check it out.

They're like-new. I would expect it to spin the tires if I had dumped the clutch, but that's not what's happening. I'll let the clutch out slowly and give it gas slowly, then once the clutch is all the way out I nail the throttle, it pulls normally for a little bit, but then the boost kicks in and then the crazy stuff…

Yeah, I know that's what's supposed to happen, but I'm being fairly gentle with the launches up to around 3-3.5k (still getting used to driving a manual) before I floor it, and the ASR stays calm until after I put the pedal down, then it's fighting the tires from the moment I get into boost until the time I shift. I…