We are FAR PAST the idea that you could just walk into any plane these days and pick a seat at random unless there are more airlines then Southwest that do open seating based on boarding groups. To think that you could just chose a different one and expect that no one else would come and claim it as theirs shortly…

I bought this one 4 years ago with 75,000 miles on it and it was bone stock at the time. I’ve since gone through the entire brakes and suspension and set it up for autocrossing. Aside from my horn not working I haven’t had any electrical issues. Other then some minor CIS flukes it’s actually been pretty damn…

Former 98 GLX VR6 owner here. Loved that car but it was the right time to sell it. The timing chains were getting noisy and the rocker panels and the fender lips under the euro textured flares were getting “ripe” so it had to go. I managed to sell it for exactly what I owed on it at the time so I was lucky.

Good point Stef. This weekend was a perfect example for me. I took my 84 GTI on a 600 mile round trip for a car show and it drove me nuts. I swear that when I pulled it out of storage and started driving it my motor mounts degraded even more and got about twice as worse. My whole car vibrates and rattles at idle. …

YaaaaaaaaaaassssS! Love this. If you squint hard enough it looks like a Henry J even. Kinda feel like it needs a polished Moon Equip fuel tank mounted on the front too and some bomber seats.

I still don’t get why they don’t have Tavarish close out each one of these articles with his standard “for the price of a new ________ you can get a severely depreciated luxury vehicle with insanely high maintenance costs” as a counter point.

I have a ‘15 Mazda6 and I’d have to agree with a caveat. It’s a great car if your standard bearer for horsepower isn’t that high. I couldn’t see going from an STI, Audi, GTI, etc. to a 3rd gen Mazda3 or 6. It’s just going to feel like something’s “missing” power wise when you compare it to other “tuner cars”. On…

She’s from the East side of Michigan, not the West side.

I didn’t know the production run was so small. I never would have guessed they made that few. Probably unfortunately a reason that the prices are going up for clean unmolested ones today. I suppose that since I attend 4-6 car shows a year and hang out with other VW enthusiasts I just shrug it off because I see them…

Well said. What made VW distinctive in the market up until the MK5 and MK6 was selling a car that was better then it’s competitors in it’s class. You got a great interior with better design and better materials then it’s similar competition and had a good variety of engine choices, etc. Even the base model non-GTIs…

Eh, the new Mazda6 isn’t really a penalty box though. I bought one willfully 3 years ago because I wanted something that got good fuel economy and was more reliable and “responsible” as a DD then an Audi, BMW, GTI, STI, Focus ST, etc. that I probably would have bought instead. I picked up an 84 GTI as a project car…

My previous next door neighbors were poster children of this mentality. Granted they had 4 kids so their justification was a little bit better, but they had a first gen Navigator and an old Escalade too. Instead of overpaying to own 2 giant SUVs when one would have been more than enough they might have been able to…

Well said. Size doesn’t mean “safer” if the driver isn’t capable of handling a vehicle that large. All it becomes is a greater danger to the rest of us.

I’ll give you a perfect example. I was parked at a fast food place with a normal perpendicular parking space in front of the building and a teenage girl in Dad’s…

Yeah I just think a traditional classic american car or muscle car is already just done to death. And for $400,000 I’d rather tell someone like Troy Terpanier, The Roadster Shop, etc. to do it exactly to my taste.

For $150,000 instead of a reproduction body 65 mustang convertible with a relatively tame 4.6 or coyote…

This is a tough one to me because there has to be a historical and actual value to the car and an all around excellent driving experience to begin with to make it worth a quarter to a half million dollars.

With that budget I’d probably say Golf R, Focus RS, or STi depending on his needs. At least that’s what I’d be looking at. Even as a car guy that WOULD blow millions on cars if I ever hit on a huge $300 Mil plus Powerball ticket, I would probably think long and hard about how I spent it and if I really NEEDED a new…

I’m with Tom on this one. I only buy one when it eclipses $150 mil or more, and mostly just so I can dream about waking up the next morning and calling Singer Vehicle Design and telling them to build me a 911. It’s all about the brief fantasy that will never come true.

I wouldn’t doubt that at all in terms of cargo volume as a whole. While I admittedly haven’t driven one I’d be curious to see how much actual driver and rear passenger space it has though. Being 6'1" I have a bit of a hard time with being comfortable in compact cars.

Bummer to hear that the NB is worse. I lucked out when I test drove that NA because I found one on a dealer lot that also had a hard top, and I showed up with a motor cycle helmet to see if I stood any chance of fitting that in there too. There was no way that was happening unless I cut foam out of the seat and/or…

I agree to an extent. I despise SUVs because as you said they are completely unnecessary for most single people to own one, and frankly as an enthusiast they are awful for driving dynamics. I don’t want a wallowing pig of a high center of gravity turd that feels like it’s going to roll if I take a corner at speed. At…