Here’s the best way to experience Car Week for free: live there, volunteer at Pebble Beach doing car show set up (in my case, putting together the participant swag bags and delivering to various venues) and hanging out there the whole week.

Do it right or not at all David. Don't half-ass this SJ, it needs to represent the breed and do it well

So, it’s a stretched Elise chassis. I’d like to see an independent source of the parts sharing comparison as the only number I can seem to find is 7% as quoted by an exec from Tesla...a company not really on the honest up and up unfortunately

Exactly what Bollinger Motors is doing with the B1

Are we really calling the original Tesla roadster a dedicated EV?!? Cause I got news for you: all the first roadster was was an electrified Lotus Elise...

Mk Vs had A LOT of electrical issues for the first couple years, esp the Jetta. The Golfs, I'll agree were ok. I won't argue though, I had an Mk V Jetta rental for a month and I loved that car. Also had an Mk IV Golf I bought new (2001) that I loved to drive and loved the design, but it had a ton of weird electrical…

Has Volkswagen learned nothing from their own recent history?!? They've been down this road before... The Mk IV and V were a move upscale to go after BMW and Mercedes sales and both generations suffered from terrible reliability, failing body hardware and electronic demons. This is why VW owns Audi...to specifically…

My wife and I had an ‘06 Cooper S (R53) we ordered new and she dailied it for 6 years. THE only issue that car had whilst living with us was an engineer mount that got leaky in the first year of ownership which was replaced before it got close to failure. The only reason that car was replaced was that she needed a…

If you got a 10A, you need to change the rear end gearing for road use since they were built for towing aircraft around a base and had super low gears.

I must be just obsessed with Jeeps as I too know of all of these. In fact, there's a soft-top CJ-10 near my house here in Anchorage that's absolutely gorgeous... Besides the ungainly 10 slot grille.

Have you taken the governor off as well? Also, where did you source a windscreen?

“Powered by Pennzoil"? Since when do they distill gasoline?!? An engine cannot run on motor oil alone...

I bet I could get away with registering one for road use up here in Alaska...

I think you’d find Hyundai on the longevity list since they do build better cars than Honda nowadays.

I’d think of that, Hyundai Kona or Accent, Honda Fit, base Golf, Fiesta, etc. All of them are under $20K also, have great reliability, cheap to operate and way better warranties than BMW/MINI... Added bonus: don't have to deal with a BMW service department.

Actually most special edition MINIs over the years were not performance variants at all and merely different trims with unique interior color combos, rarely were they performance (ie JCW or WC50) and those special editions rarely cost more than $1000 extra.

Nope, F150 and GL450 here... Pretty sure you're supposed to look through your wheel on occasion to check things like speed, revs, remaining fuel, etc...

Because the spoke orientation and emblem being straight up aren’t clues already?

Once upon a time, I had ‘69 VW Beetle AutoStick which I restored. It got so bad with coming out from work and seeing handprints on windows and such, that I taped signs in the quarter windows for people to look and please not touch...I think it kept the honest people away.

It could have been the Historics (which would've been in August), but I distinctly remember a lack of vintage race cars about