No, no, no, no, no! You don’t “restomod” a damn 1954 Jag. Especially not one this lovely (originally) and restorable. People have done so much with far less. This car deserves to be treated right.

Ooohh... Focus RS-E! 350HP (equivalent) electric power AWD hatch wearing a new electric blue but otherwise styled just like an RS. With drift mode. I’d buy it. I want a Model 3 but like hatches more than sedans.

I remember some years back on The Samba (classic VW) forum where a user wrote bumber as an “accident” and it became a running joke for a very long time. I think it was even included in a few people’s signatures. I’d be curious to know how much that trend skewed the results towards VW...

I had a similar experience buying my Focus. It was at the small used car section of a Honda dealer and I discovered (much to my surprise) that it had the exact options I wanted. Went to talk to the salesman about the price and a test drive. He proceeds to demand I give him a “target payment” even though I told him it…

I’ve been trying to follow this advice for a while now with my wife’s 2003 Solara. It’s almost indestructible, paid off, and just needs basic maintenance items (shocks, timing belt, etc...), but there’s some part of me that would be very happy to walk away from it. It’ll serve us well for the next 5 or so years I…

In my experience (as an engineer), it’s rarely the engineers that suddenly wake up and realize there’s a problem. We report our findings then work months or years trying to convince the right person to care. The recall formula from Fight Club is not always far fetched when it comes to corporations/government entities…

There was a JDM Integra with Japanese front license plate at the last auto-x I went to. That was a strange sight in the wilds of South Carolina.

That doesn’t really make sense. Almost all of these have a low-slung hatchback they are either based on or closely linked to. Why not buy that instead?

Yeah, spoons sure have been responsible for making a lot of people fat these days...

Stop writing so many good things about this car, my Focus SE is getting jealous and threatening divorce.

Sooo let me get this fuel economy law straight... VW gets hammered for making an extremely fuel efficient addition to their already efficient lineup because it puts out a little extra NOx, but Chrysler is encouraged by the same government to produce a full line of gas guzzlers rather than innovate and get away from…

This post is useless without pictures of said $35.7 million Ferrari.

I expect nothing less from a Ram driver wearing a yeti hat...

Damn that’s a glorious sound...

I’d totally buy that graphic in poster form!

Damn... This thread needs a meet up at a garage with a case of beer so everyone can chill like proper petrol heads (or diesel heads if that’s your thing).

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This strikes me as a good example of selling one’s soul to a company for a job. If he enjoys his work, more power to him. Personally, I’d rather put in my 8 hours then go home to my wife and dogs.

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Not a race car, but... A rather unusual brown lizard with a forked tail took up residence in my VW Thing while I was doing the latest round of restoration work. My wife (who loves lizards, frogs, and the like) named the lizard Issac. Issac actually stuck around for a few months and returned each time I took the car…