Guess we’re looking at the future official truck of ISIS apparently if this will only be sold in the Middle East. Trying to get in on Toyota’s market.

Yeah, having a dealer do a Head Gasket on one is a $3,000 job! No thanks.

The problem is hardly anyone has exposure to them any more. You certainly aren’t going to find a Driver’s Ed car that has it.

I didn’t even know how to drive stick when I bought my first car with a manual! It was a 91 Honda Prelude Si that happened to catch my eye on a used car lot and I fell in love with it but…

That drove me nuts on my first Jetta. I had been driving stick in my 3rd Gen Prelude for 5 years at that point so I was well versed in driving a manual but I must have forgotten about the Reverse on the VW 3 times when I test drove a MK3 Jetta for the first time. I was embarasssed as FK but at least I ended up buying…

It’s more realistically a good way to exempt your GF or wife from being a DD if you take your car. :p It’s also a good way to keep her from driving your car if that’s your end goal.

It is normal compared to older cars, but this is a big perception issue, especially when you are marketing the car as a luxury brand. If I’m buying a brand new car, I expect it to be as maintenance free as possible. I shouldn’t feel the need to check the oil every time I get gas, and potentially need to top it off…

I am ridiculously excited about this. The only thing that sucks is it obviously won’t be getting a TDI motor and it won’t be possible to get a “Holy Grail” version that is Brown - Diesel - Manual - 4-Motion. I’ll probably just get the Sportwagen with 4-motion and manual though. Not sure the offroad mode with downhill…

Good to know that these aren’t a total penalty box. If I had to surrender to driving an SUV this would probably be it. I like their weird “retro-futurist” styling to them for some reason. Ecoboost and AWD would be good too.

I don’t think you’d get to drive it 400 miles between it breaking, let alone weekly!

That will help you a lot out of the gate then. The only happy Allroad or B5 S4 owners I know happen to work for a Euro Performance shop and they have fixed and tuned these cars thousands of times so nothing that happens is a surprise to them. If you know someone like that it will help you significantly.

Apple doesn’t need to go through the R&D Effort and cost of launching its own car, it needs to find a willing partner to make an Apple version of their vehicle. Anything with a shiny chrome Apple badge on it will sell the same way because of their Brand Evangelists. The iCamry and the iRav4 would serve the same damn…

You are a brave brave man sir. Hopefully in a few months time it doesn’t make you so mad and broke that you decide to set it on fire in the desert and claim that it was stolen.

That was my thought too. At least if the IMS or something else was going to fail it’s at least been replaced once. In a weird way perhaps being a well used car is also indictive of the fact that it’s been mechanically cared for. I’m almost picturing this being owned by someone with several better more valuable cars…

$11K is basically accurate to the true cost of building this if you had a body shop do all of the assembly and painting. It’s a great platform if you can do all of that yourself though. Buy a MK4 for $3K or less, add the kit for $3,500 and paint it yourself and you’re looking at a very interesting custom car for $7K…

$6K is about what you could build this for if you were capable of doing the body work and painting it yourself. Especially if you found a car with rear end damage in a junkyard for less than $1,000. That is a good deal. $11K is about what you’d spend paying someone else to do the assembly and paint.

Yeah, $11K is basically accurate to the true cost of building this if you had a body shop do all of the assembly and painting. It’s a great platform if you can do all of that yourself though. Buy a MK4 for $3K or less, add the kit for $3,500 and paint it yourself and you’re looking at a very interesting custom car…

I didn’t like the two nosey bitches suing in the first place when they started talking, then half way through the video they zoom out and you realize that the man is in a wheel chair and I really got angry about this! Working on cars is probably one of the few things he can do that reminds him of the life he had…

Donated $20 and sharing this on multiple car enthusiast facebook groups too.

I hope that after he beats these nosey bitches and pays his lawyers there is enough left over to finish that C-10 as well.

Free meatballs for a year with every Volvo purchase at Ikea.

Good to know this. I think this would totally make sense for a classic car or something else that was rare enough to be considered worth saving and not letting become a salvage title.