From someone who owned a ‘72 Bug, I’d love to have turned it into this. Porsche purists are bad enough, but VW purists? 

1) 22 million VW Type 1s

For the price of a used Miata, you can get something more distinctive and uncommon. It’s not about pretending it’s a real Speedster (though some of these replicas can do a pretty good job fooling even the armchair ‘experts’). It’s simply about the fun of driving. Chocolate, vanilla, there’s no right or wrong. Lots of p…

Fucking people and their shitty photography skills. I’m not saying it needs to be on a pro-level, but in focus, relatively straight, and without any of the photographer’s body parts in the picture isn’t hard! It’s 2019 for fuck’s sake, we all have a digital camera in our pocket which has a nice, big screen letting you…

Still think the car looks like someone tried to Dukes of Hazzard it and bananaed the thing.

Dude, I'm a huge, trolling asshole and even I think your comment is stupid.

I think there were lots of fans to prevent overheating

Neat.

“In the spirit of the Supra, I wish Toyota had the guts to make a PROPER sports car. ~300hp, manual, $25k. Take out all the unnecessary nannies and save a few hundred lbs.”

Nope. I’ve owned a Swedish car, and that is as closer to owning a German or Italian car as I care to get, TYVM. 

Ah, the guy who heard about the 15 years ago headgasket issue is here.

I had to replace a coil pack on a 4Runner last week to clear a misfire code. It took almost fifteen minutes and I scraped the knuckle on my index finger a little bit. Only 220k on that one.

I, like most people, have honestly never once had any Alfa break down on me, cost me a penny in maintenance, or give me any sort of trouble whatsoever.

“I hadn’t seen any Guilias in months and I saw two yesterday.”

I hadn’t seen any Guilias in months and I saw two yesterday.

This Yura is a true jalopnik and masochist if I’ve ever seen one. 

For the Miata person: why not keep the ‘99 and buy something else as a dd? Wrenching on a weekend is considerably less fun if you need that same car to get to work on Monday.

I don’t understand people who buy (sports) cars in primer/battleship grey.

That’s not true at all. They sold like hotcakes for many, many years, and were a cash cow for the various iterations of Chrysler back then. When Daimler bought Chrysler, they wanted to get rid of it. But it was such a big money maker, they let Chrysler keep it and only gave it the mild refresh around 2004. It even…

I think it’s weird that whenever people talk about retro-styled cars from that era, the Thunderbird is always mentioned, but not the S-Type, which was built on the same platform and, frankly, a pretty damn successful example of that styling done well.