Don’t hold your breath. :( They have a turbo for the motor now with the CX-9 drivetrain, the question is if they will use it and/or hopefully tune it a bit more for more power.

Unless you’re used to something definitely more powerful and better handling I would not call this car slow or boring. I was sold on mine too the minute I got a solo test drive in one without the saleman and I got to toss it through some corners. It’s the most fun you can probably have in a true “midsize car” and…

Agreed. The quality and look of the interior on the 6 (other then the shitty seat bolsters, my DS is already crushed) definitely feels “upscale”. That was a pretty big selling point for me.

Manual trans Touring 6 owner here. For the price, the options, and the driving experience it is definitely a good car. It would have been nice to get a GT, but I honestly question whether it would be worth spending $32K or $34K for a fully loaded GT. Granted it does have all of the fancy options like adaptive…

Good analogy! This is coming from a Lions fan that questions why I put up with the psychological torture this shitty team inflicts upon me every football season. I just hope they win one before I die but I’m not holding my breath.

Yeah, it was crazy to see how big and well run the place was! He gave me a tour the last time I visited him. They even had storage lifts in the bottom floor so they could park cars 2 to a spot while they waited to be worked on. Now he’s working in GA at a distribution center that basically receives all of the…

You’re buying a car, not a value meal. I didn’t have to do any final negotiating or BS, I just had to sign paperwork. If we ever get to the point that the dealership sales system as we know it goes away and it is always a fixed price things would be different, until then there’s always going to be some haggling and…

Granted the COL there is crazy but my step brother is a highly certified Benz mechanic and he was making $125K a year I think at a mid town Manhattan Benz Dealership that serviced cars for people like Jay-Z and Jerry Seinfeld. That place was huge though. Underground garage that could store hundreds of cars and 70…

Exactly. It was a bit of a tiring process up front with all of the email communication, but when I bought my first brand new car 3 years ago I did EVERYTHING save for an initial test drive online. I basically looked for cars in inventory in a 4 hr. radius of me and started contacting dealers that had inventory. I…

Well they did it to themselves. I was nervous with my first new car buying experience a few years ago because the actual car I bought was “sight unseen” since the dealership was 3 hrs. away and I had essentially done all of my negotiating online with the internet sales manager so I never set foot in the place or…

There’s a fine line between reasonably storing your own vehicles and posessions on your own land, and creating an eyesore.

I’ll give you a perfect example I drive past every day. There’s a small house with a tiny yard smack in the middle of the city where I live and this guy has had up to 3 FWD Circle Track cars…

So the article doesn’t explicitly state that he has it on his driveway, but the picture shows it street parked.

Interesting, but my question is the necessity of all of this. It’s a turn key drag car which is cool, but I suspect that it’ll be a low production car and a third of them will be mothballed and stored as an “investment”, a third of them will be wrecked by someone at cars and coffee or at a drag strip because they…

Don’t forget 4-6 different stupid ass LED light bars and fog light sized LED lamps stuck in every opening on the front of the truck. Stupid.

Can relate. I listed to some rap like Snoop and Dre, but most of what I blasted out of my stereo in HS was Nine Inch Nails, Pantera, Tool, and Deftones.

I’m 36 years old now but to this day everytime Nine Inch Nails - Closer comes on the radio I roll down the windows and crank it all the way up and hope that some…

Didn’t we all back then? LOL I even had them on my black 94 Chevy Corsica which was my first car. :p

*Sigh* I miss my stereo system days. I grew up in a small town in the snow belt of Northern Michigan so it was pretty stupid to buy a camaro or mustang or something else RWD aside from a 4x4 truck because you couldn’t daily it year around. That meant that instead of making my car fast, I just wanted to make it…

Fairly popular further up north too. The A5 has depreciated right into that sweet spot that has meant loads of people with even a reasonable income can pick one up. The S5/RS5 are obviously less common, but not unheard of, especially around the Bay Area.

I haven’t been to Pontiac in 14 years or so (when I last went the Lions were playing there) so I have no idea how it is now but I find it hard to believe that anyone is investing heavily in land or development in the area after the Lions moved and post Recession.

No shit. Like the crumbling stadium that’s been half stripped out and doesn’t have a roof anymore isn’t an eyesore! My brother works for a demolition company as an estimator and he just went out to do a bid on it recently. He said it’s the 3rd or 4th time his company has done that.