Bone stock, I swear the exhaust was a hair away from illegal. My car at idle was meaner sounding than my father’s C6 Z06. I took my friend’s brother for a ride not long after I bought it; my friend heard us open up the taps well over mile from his house. The long tubes were nuts. They’d pop and crackle on decel with a…

Yeah, MotoRex reeeeeeeeeeeally screwed that pooch for all of us. But nope, the S&D thing is all part of the myth.

Thanks, sincerely.

Torrid Red w/ black, 2004 manual. Bought new with 12 miles on the clock. Long-tubed after my driver-side cat shit the bed, last third of the exhaust was still stock (basically from the mufflers on back). Sounded ludicrous, like thunder rolling in. SAP grills w/ that stupid wing thrown in the trash.…

They would be grandfathered, yes.

Which leads to another fascinating “quirk” of the law, if my understanding is correct. Say you imported over a first-year R34 a decade back: “Show and Display” whatever, just that it was brought onto US shores on the up and up. All forms signed, stamped and payed. Now imagine you…

Don’t recall if they were to sink the boat, they absolutely had procedures to destroy the machine and burn every codebook in site should it appear the sub would be lost. Enigma had several flavors, many of which had been cracked first by the Poles, and later their work was expanded by the British. The Naval version…

I’m getting more of a “Rocket Racoon and Disney’s Robin Hood shoved in a blender” vibe.

It equates to it when you’re done replacing the problem bits. I’m being a little facetious with “all.” I’m also implying that when you replace your wear items, you choose the best option.

The only thing that has actually failed on my car was something I knew was going to fail eventually: the charge pipe, which BMW…

From what I’ve read: make sure your OFHG isn’t leaking, as any N5x engine will eat a serpentine belt. The rest is cake. The non-turbos are indestructible, the N54 is great for power but the N55 is the best of both worlds.

I stumbled into mine through dumb luck. I was looking at WRXs to replace my GTO but the better…

Ew, I feel your pain but any non-interference engine can lunch it. VAG, now, hoofah. You show up with a VW or Audi and I’ll probably kick you out of the driveway, especially if your New Beetle apparently has less oil in it than my lawn lower. . . Sidenote: we don’t get those 1-series hatches here in Freedom-Land (F22…

I’d heard the horror stories. And then I bought an E90, manual N55 w xDrive. (I loathe myself?)

Wrench on it yourself wherever applicable, local trusted independent shop when not. Replace all plastic and rubber with metal and silicon, respectively. Speaking of silicon, upgrade all thinkamajig widgets with newest…

Funny you should mention Star Trek. In sci-fi, it’s totally adjacent to the “Space is an Ocean” trope, and as you mentioned with the sub, it’s a reference to the very real tactic of scuttling a ship.

Drop in the four banger and a stick, nicer suspension. . . .

True. Something like CoD upsells “realism” as part of the experience. A cartoon-y Sniper Elite would not work. With something like CP2077, where the vision trumps all, they could’ve prioritized style and performance (on mid-level hardware) without drawing ire.

I grabbed a physical copy, as it was cheaper and at least I can semi-justify that it’ll retain a value on the secondary market. Still, you’re exactly right: it’s a weird, shitty business decision* but nothing to get worked up about. As for FOMO, let’s be objective. Mario 64's fascinating as an artifact but hurts to…

Honestly, I dig it, too. A LoFi aesthetic would’ve totally been appropriate for this game. When I snag the GOTY w/ Expansion Pass version in the 2021 Steam Winter sale, I might try to do some tweaking if we can get there.

If there is one singular lesson from Nintendo that should be learned, studied and goddamned…

Three of those are a corruption, er, implementation of the Mitsu GS platform, so I’m willing to let that be a mulligan. Or maybe the Lancer was the corruption? I dunno. Either way, three of ‘em are turds in different color bags.

If they had the guts to make a hothatch Mirage, I’d almost be game. My MIL had one for a…

Neat! And the oldest contender to the title thus far!

Check out the Goat Path (in my reply to myself). Even weirder.  They bought the right of way, built overpasses, etc. and then didn’t build the actual road.

Same here. I think my options were essentially either there or over by Cheney. Also, yeah, having to do “the Box” on an incline? Yipes.

True, but we both know that doesn’t stop them.