Hey, I didn’t know there was one particular shit-stained weasel to talk to. They must’ve forgot to give me his phone number when I bought my manual Rennie brand new off the lot.

Probably for the best, as I kinda want to break his knuckles over the lack of a crawler gear and can’t be held accountable for my actions if…

Forgot you didn’t get the first-gen CTS down under. They were handsome little blocks of metal.

One could probably make a compelling argument for the CTS, especially the CTS-V, but as a whole, yeah, Oz’s homegrown toys were better. At the time, the closest things to the GTO came from Germany, and those couldn’t survive the “slide-ways out the drive, hoon and put away dirty” combined with a level of neglect…

As long as it’s relatively popular, companies like Year One’ll cover your needs for an old car.

As for newer cars, most of those brainboxes were used across multiple vehicles and are easy to source, generally with a choice of used, re-manufactured or at least NOS if not churned out last week. They’re fairly robust,…

Ouch, thanks for that stab in the heart: my GTmonarO would have been sixteen this year if that jackass hadn’t nailed me in the quarter panel two winters back. After almost fifteen years of my butt planted in that seat, it felt like she may as well have shot my dog.

Current fleet:
2011 BMW 335i xDrive (Manual - bought…

True, but to use an analogy. . . Those other companies don’t have a CEO public decrying the publicly-funded restaurant for feeding his employees while he himself is personally stuffing his face at the buffet. . .

Truth being told, I didn’t do too much more than a some white-belt-level Google-Fu at the time. With most of my older systems, I’ll generally play those through emulation for convenience’s sake so it wasn’t critical. Plus, it just means I’m wall-tethered at worst if I get the desire to use the real hardware. Even now,…

Are there?

I actually ran across this issue last summer when I went through and catalogued all my old gaming hardware. Both my original and extended-life PSP batteries had noticeably expanded. Off to recycling those went, but when I checked the usual scumbags for replacements I couldn’t find them outside of listings…

Ooh, I love it when people break out into sections. Makes life so much easier, and I honestly mean that.

1. Good, but we’ll come back around in 2. This is similar to some of the things I alluded to in the comment about the process changes to the Y filtering back to the 3. The stand out from the Munro teardown, IIRC,…

“One, my wife said the icon could also be an anus.”

With violent, bloody hemorrhoids!? How is that better?

Seriously, is it that hard to realize they used stock photos?  I mean, I’d definitely ding the dealership for being lazy but it takes two seconds with a VIN decoder to confirm the car’s equipment.

If only there was some kinda of VIN decoder online. . .

Oh.

https://honda-tech.com/forums/vindecoder.php?vin=1HGCV2E30LA005230

I’d also argue when those Freemont claims were made Ol’ Musky still believed he was going to turn NUMMI into a virtually fully-automated factory where raw material and components went in and finished cars came out with minimal human interaction on the actual line. Tesla seems to have learned the reality: the big kids,…

DTM3: But what if they had put an LS and 4L60E into the rear end instead of the buick engine?

Maybe a missed communication, here. Not hooning. When I say hot-hatch it, I meant grab the Mopar lowering kit, get larger wheels and some lower profile tires, the Magneti Marelli ECU piggy-back, etc. Maybe some questionable aero. . . I don’t think anyone’s really done that build, even though the bones are there. If we…

It’s sometimes hard to feel out intentions when the tone of the comment’s neutral but can be taken as an honest question or a polite suggestion that I’m overdue to see my ophthalmologist. Just hedging my bet, I guess.

In this case I meant the Compass as a whole, as I can really speak to it, and was using “polish” with…

Couldn’t help myself:  must’ve been all the Kool-Aid that was dumped around this site during the lead-up to the North American release.

As another benefit, it helps maintain my street-cred in the “save the manuals” threads when I can whip out my trap card: “I bought a brand-new manual transmission equipped vehicle,…

And my god, is it not soooo much better than the automatic version? Not to tell someone what to do with their own car but since you went straight-up FWD, you totally should lean-in hard and hot-hatch it!

Those EPA numbers on the sticker are definitely low. We’ve been averaging between 26-28MPG combined over around 70K…

I’m going to treat this as a sincere question.

They’re both built on FIAT’s “Small-Wide” platform, and the Compass uses the Renegade’s exact* same powertrain, suspension, brakes, etc. under the sheet metal and interior trim. My statement is literally what happened: they stretched the platform to add rear legroom and…

As someone pointed out in one of the Bronco threads, the supply dried out in a hurry and no dealership stocked them. Our local dealership received two-four manual Renegades in their initial allotment, and I don’t believe I ever saw another one after that. Most people aren’t going to sign for 20-25K without at least…