With no bonus parts or 12mm sockets lost somewhere in the car?

You can get the SE and SEL with the 2.0. Looks like the 2.0 is $1095 over the 1.6 regardless of trim level or drive wheels.

Thats some deep insight right there. And I like where you're going with it, because that means sometime in the hopefully not too distant future America will once again have cool wagons.

Boxer rumble man. All the music a guy needs right there.

DesmoTDI. Revs to an astonishing 6,000 rpm and needs a valve adjustment every 5,000 miles. But you can go 15,000 miles between oil changes.

More gas is always the answer when you're in trouble. In a footnote to the study, women were better rally drivers than men.

When the salesman pulls the truck around for you and has the stereo cranked up for when you get in it. Pulled out of the lot, turned the radio off and listened to the rear end howl once I got up to ~30mph. Got back, thanked him for his time and left.

1st gear: I find the Numero 9 to be strangely attractive. Like so many French things actually. For instance the Megane Scenic. Don't know why, just like it. Then there is Peugot, smelly cheese and so many other things that are French. And of course, the greatest French thing of all. Sketchy mountain roads…

Check out the pool skimming that starts at around 5:30 or so. Pastrana is flat out crazy.

That road, where is that road? Jalops unite, we must go there.

Nothing to see here, please disperse.

Demand exists in a communist economy. Supply... Not so much.

I just had an epiphany and now I realize the ultimate car that would please all Jalops. It is a full size wagon (think Volvo 850) with three doors powered by a turbo-diesel Wankel with a six speed three pedal manual providing power to the rear wheels.

Dunlop Wintersport 3D's. Just took mine off. And then it turned 40 and rainy with the odd snowflake mixed in.

But wouldn't that make the torque taper up from down low? As opposed to a pretty narrow band where there is a dip. And I though equal length headers are going to give a benefit across the rev band?

How to change a flat. You never know where you're going to need to and its not something that you can just wait til you get home to deal with.

So remember a while back when the QOTD was what our favorite car with an odd number of cylinders was? Did they ever post the AOTD? Or did they just say eff it, everyone said Audi Quattro, no need to post.

Maybe that is where some valve timing adjustments are getting made? I'm assuming this has some form of variable valve timing, but can't find any info at the moment to back me up.

Sacrilege! Jalops must love Jaaaags. Don't they? I thought I saw that in the bylaws.

On a semi unrelated note, I propose that electric cars be known as "remote emissions vehicles" as opposed to the current "Zero emissions vehicles".