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The MK7 Golf R I had with the 2.0L 292/280 accelerated nicely. Never tried the 1.4T. If you find that the 1.4T pushed you back you would probably like the R.

Weedstocks are highly volatile, catalysts such as legalization votes etc. produce extreme pump/dump scenarios or classical bubble waveforms. Please be careful if you decide to invest. Use some simple moving averages and trendlines to time your purchases (despite people saying you can't time the...

Screw and glue, you'll be fine, chemical and mechanical bond. Just watch for the wood splitting over time. Edit: with wide tires like that maybe consider 2x10's or 2x12's ?

Subscribed, thanks ! Will be interesting to follow the series.

I think this is the first vehicle I've owned that has rollers incorporated into the cam lobes. It gives a whole new meaning to the term "roller cam". LOL. Not my images but I can't link them from the source as they were forum attachments...

That is a gorgeous car and I hope you enjoy it !

I don't hate the CVT in our FozXT. However, I love the DSG in our R. That's all I got...

Honestly considering the purchase of one. Always have to have the next car planned, never know when you might have to replace the current one. It's currently down to a Mirage or a Crosstrek, but it varies with time. Is your FIL on mirage forum.com ?

Beautiful ! Congrats

Allure of the Seas in April 2018 out of Florida/Fort Lauderdale none of us got sick from food poisoning did get sea sick one day (the boy and me, wife was fine); I had motion sickness feeling for about a week or two afterwards running track around the perimeter of the ship was cool, daily...

Congrats to your son on his accomplishments and to you for supporting him. That race BMX bike looks sweet

Congrats ! Welcome to the VAG family.

Originally Posted By: FranklinJL BTW, I drove the car for about 30 minutes....carfax 1 owner vehicle....seems like it was driven by an older person lol. Great brakes, blistering acceleration.....hopefully it checks out My coworker likes his, a 2014 RS5. He had the rear sport differential...

Currently have a 2017 Forester XT, previously had a 2015 Forester XT that was written off in an offset angle head-on collision from a red-light-runner, all of the forward airbags went off, the front driver and passenger doors no longer closed properly, the driver side had gaps that you could see...

Originally Posted By: Delta Update! For 210hp and 260ish tq that is not bad, considering I don't baby it at all. IMO for the lifetime reading so far that's impressive ! For us metric folks it's about 7.2L/100KM. With my R I'm at about 10.1 L/100KM lifetime with a best of 9.8 (I don't know what...