Asta la vista, baby. . .

[bentin]

Who you referring too?

Someone said you’re in Montreal. Guilty by association. But it’s true, the wheel is heated now, no need for gloves. Of course our coldest days are not really glove days anyway.

 

[Greg_mk7]

Someone said you’re in Montreal. Guilty by association. But it’s true, the wheel is heated now, no need for gloves. Of course our coldest days are not really glove days anyway.

Im not french though, its almost like you living in Austin and someone assuming your Californian.

 

[bentin]

Im not french though, its almost like you living in Austin and someone assuming your Californian.

Funny you should assume that. It’s actually pretty safe in Austin. I moved from Laguna Beach. Another place my Mk8 would work just fine year round.

 

[MSH]

Lol.

I mean if they really wanted to make some money they just need to add physical buttons, a special final manual edition set of basics (like nicer shift knob and other gimmicky things) then charge 10k more for them. I'd pay. I love the mk7 and it's really hard to pick up any other car available today. Not much has a manual, 4 doors, and is fun to drive today... Even the m3 today is kinda dull. Audi and merc make literally nothing interesting. Porsche makes the panamera and it's just too large. What else is there? The type s is maybe the only other interesting car.

Is it just me or have the last 4 years of cars made everyone less "car people" and more "appliance people"? I just don't get excited about anything new anymore...

I agree with a lot of this. I made the move to the single car within my budget that captures a lot of what you are looking for (except 4 doors requirement) which is the F87 manual m2 comp(definitely not the hideous G87 M2) . To me its the one car in the modern bmw line up that captures that golden E36/E46 era in a modern package. Still normal buttons (mostly anyways..idrive is touchscreen but you can use the wheel/buttons on center console to) but really a car that to me captures a lot of old school BMW.
Until I'm ready to go to the next level (i.e. 911 for me...lightyears off until kids out of house and college paid for), which means a massive increase in budget, I'll have this car for a good while. Nothing else interests me at the f87 m2 comp price point.

I think the years you were in high school often dictate for people what peak car was. You're either wealthy enough to be able to attain new at that time, you're jealous enough to lust over the new of that time, or you're watching 10 year old stuff, dreaming of what you could do with it...

I'm personally a late 2000s fanatic. Such amazing engineering and still blissfully ignorant enough to make fun of hippees.

I could get behind a few 60s/70s barely aluminum foil tubs with giant v8s though. Why not make so much torque you twist the frame off the line? (does that show my age?)

What about the Testarossa, 959, countach, f40, audi Quattro, rx7, 944, and DeLorean?

+1 here as well but I don't know if high school dictated what "peak car was" for me but lots of great ones.
I will say it was when my love of motorsport began however(late 80's). I had posters of the E30 M3 and the 959 when I was in high school but the car I really lusted over at that time was the Ruf CTR (Yellow Bird).
I had an opportunity years later to really get after it in my friends '93 RX7. Now that car was fooking awesome.

 

[uberdot]

I suppose when you're only 18 this would be considered the golden age instead of the mid-60's.

I wasn’t referring to the last few decades of cars

 

[victorofhavoc]

I agree with a lot of this. I made the move to the single car within my budget that captures a lot of what you are looking for (except 4 doors requirement) which is the F87 m2 comp(definitely not the hideous G87 M2) . To me its the one car in the modern bmw line up that captures that golden E36/E46 era in a modern package. Still normal buttons (mostly anyways..idrive is touchscreen but you can use the wheel/buttons on center console to) but really a car that to me captures a lot of old school BMW.
Until I'm ready to go to the next level (i.e. 911 for me...lightyears off until kids out of house and college paid for), which means a massive increase in budget, I'll have this car for a good while. Nothing else interests me at the f87 m2 comp price point.




+1 here as well but I don't know if high school dictated what "peak car was" for me but lots of great ones.
I will say it was when my love of motorsport began however(late 80's). I had posters of the E30 M3 and the 959 when I was in high school but the car I really lusted over at that time was the Ruf CTR (Yellow Bird).
I had an opportunity years later to really get after it in my friends '93 RX7. Now that car was fooking awesome.

... Kids man... They're the supercar dream killer .

 

[KevinC]

But also this.. so what is it, phase all this stuff out and go full EV, or hit pause?