Wasn't entirely my choice under the parameters of the financial assistance/contributions. Beggars can't be choosers too. The more I think about it, equating cost with reliability makes no sense. Zero… (View Post)

I'm not sure how my nearly 8 year old Audi TTS got me to Buttonwillow Raceway and back for a HPDE weekend event with the SoCal Audi Club this past weekend, given how unreliable Audi's apparently are.… (View Post)

You are slumming it with a wife with an under 800 score of course :wink: I honestly thought the highest threshold for "best deal" credit wise was 750. (View Post)

I think people only give even rare failures a pass if the rest of the car is otherwise good. If the transmission, air conditioning/compressors, and everything else were engineered with planned obsole… (View Post)

Was the Paseo bad? I suppose it is suspicious it likely became the Echo. Name changes (errr. Neon -. PT. -> Caliber -> Dart) usually are a red flag. (View Post)