When I was about 13 my dad suggested I try driving our Pontiac Transport minivan to pull our 16 ft boat out of the water. Since I couldn’t handle left foot braking to ease the car forward, I basically mashed the gas and laid a strip of rubber on the concrete.

Other commenter mentioned that, but I’ll add that in the shot is a VBox sport, which is a separate device with highly accurate GPS readings that connects to your phone with BT. Yes, it’s displayed on the phone, but the phone’s GPS antenna likely isn’t actually doing the receiving.

Love your stories, David, along with the engineering required to get them back on the road. If I lived near you, I’d probably want to help too!

YES. My friend imported a 2 door R into Canada a few months ago (I don’t think they ever came to Canada) and it looks fantastic. The white is so good. It’ll be my next car! (4 door)

At first glance my car looks super ordinary, but if you’re familiar with Golfs, it starts to stand out:

/Drive on NBC has always had good stuff, but the problem has been distribution. I’m in Canada and there’s no proper way to watch online.

I just had an Accent for a week while my Golf was in the shop and I drove the same way: foot to the floor at every launch. I’m sure the people beside could hardly tell.

Thanks. I have not been on jury duty, but I’m interested in the process.

This is a rather interesting case, from a technical standpoint. I would assume they brought forward some expert witnesses to explain why the sheet metal roof is important, but I wonder how many people in the jury understood them?

In addition to cleaning all of the seats, they’re going to need new tires on that thing as well.

Now I really want to find what go-fast bits are available for Aleros

Early in my first Golf experience, I was heading home and decided to maximize the tank. I ended up largely coasting into the gas station and put about 55L into the 55L tank. Strangely now that I see the photo, the 575 km isn’t that far (my current Golf routinely goes 600+ km on a tank on the highway, which this was).

Someone here in Canada should buy it, track it for a year and then try to get plates next year when it should become legal to drive on the street.

It’s a low key unicorn but I’ve never actually seen another one of my car in the wild before. It’s a 2010 Golf Sportline: 5MT 2.5L. Most of the 2 doors I see around are GTIs.

I just wish the entire show was either three car tests, cheap car challenges or epic travels. Although I’m guessing their aging bodies wouldn’t like that selection either.

Would be more interesting to see the years, that would make a fun graph.

So where does the production lap record bottom out? Is the time still dropping in a reasonably linear fashion or has the increment reduced significantly?

Cars with factory roll cages are better than cars without.

How many of those have proper diff breathers installed?