Umm... Beetle Adventure Racing!?

If I give full throttle to my ~100hp Toyota Pickup through a turn on wet roads, it’ll even break loose a bit. Though really only at in-town speeds.

I don’t disagree that emissions standards are important, but the current emissions standards for diesels focus on reducing a tiny fraction of the diesel’s exhaust to an even tinier fraction - something that can’t be accomplished without squirting pee into the exhaust with an expensive mechanism. At what point are…

The cheat software is way more awesome! I’m mostly sad that VW got caught! Getting around stupid laws is heroic and commendable. I’d buy a TDI now, if I weren’t so poor.

My 291,000 mile, rusted, 100 horsepower, 1984 Toyota, for example.

I’m a fan of the ‘get a nice car to drive around, and a beat up pickup for pickup things’ mentality. In 2011, I bought a 1984 Toyota 4x4 longbed pickup for about $1200, and it hauls all the mulch, dirt, and tree branches I can throw at it, costs $100/year to insure, and, when it does break, can be fixed by a $15 part…

If you trade it in near Great Falls, Montana, you will get a whopping $9 for it! That’s a positive number!!

My Grand Am with the 3.4 got new lifters at 150,000 miles. It was still going as strong as smooth as new when I sold it earlier this year at 244,000, and the couple that bought it will probably see it through 300k.