In LA, its like a professional snobbery image issue. If you’re in “Hollywood”, or a lawyer, banker etc, you have to have a late model MB/BMW/Audi to show success. Its stupid. I know people who are caught in the middle of it, but they can’t change cars or else be criticized. By the time they are so successful that…

With so little foresight as this seems to have, it must have either been a crime of passion or a crime of opportunity. Otherwise a crime of stupidity; who leaves the victim’s body & car within yards of your own workplace where you agreed to meet?

Its hard to tell from the pictures, but you can almost see that the carburetor was at fault.

Proper PSI is important. If its off by just 1-3 PSI things will get out of control.

They took half a sports car & mated it with half an economy car. They just took the wrong half of each. How else do you get 2 seats plus holes where 2 seats oughta be but aren’t. Then you end up with a slow, heavy sports car that gets mediocre gas mileage from the hybrid system.

It was a joke referring to your quote “leave the drag racing to the Hollywood pros”. Sorry it wasn’t clearer (or funnier).

I believe the 74 & prior cars would still stay exempt.

A problem might be that OEM parts would be hard to find for a 30 year old car. Even if you find one, it might not be new, just a used part from a junkyard. Then what?

So you’re saying we CAN drag race in Hollywood! Good to know. Thanks for the legal advice!

At least they seem to have a sense of humor about the situation. I suppose they saw it coming soon or later.

Something similar happened to a coworker of mine.

The MkVI GTI’s are having terrible water pump issues. And those are only 4+ years old. I’m on my third and by looking at forums there’s hundreds of other owners affected as well.

I was thinking something along the lines of printed image on a T shirt, so he can wear it while he is driving the H1.

I've never used a car broker, but wouldn't it make more sense to have the car buyer/leasee pay them directly rather then the company on the other side of the table pay them? Sounds like a conflict of interest in the making.

1. You called me a dick somewhere so far up the thread I can't find it anymore. I'm not upset but it hurts your point. Apology accepted.

I don't know you; but from your various replies on this topic, it seems you are really afraid of motorcyclists when driving between lanes. I'm not sure what that stems from but clearly its a different experience than I've had.

I'm wondering why I had to scroll half way down the page to see the most obvious answer.

...AND when you do lane split, you are legally required to do it in the most unsafe portion of the highway.

So you are saying:

This is beyond stupid. You want to stay on the right side of the left most lane (typically) because you are the most visible to both your lane and the lane next to you. If you occupy the left most part of the left lane and are driving say in front of a box truck, someone will see an "opening" in the fast lane and…