I have the original key to my '89 244 (210k) but the '92 745Ti (211k, unknown mileage on the engine) came with a hardware-store key. Ah, well, the keys suit each car's character.
Exactly! I've never driven anything that'd count as a true 'sports car', but a few sport compacts have given me a bit of comparison to my daily-driver - a 20-year-old Volvo 745T that, for its first year in my care, was driven without boost.
Keep in mind that the AE-86 GT-S, optionless, was apparently around 2200 lbs and 112 HP - this car's 2,662 lbs with 197 HP. 13.5 pounds per pony compared with 19.6. Maybe it's heavy compared to the old car (a given with today's crash-test standards and padded options lists), but it shouldn't be slow.
Even if a Subaru with STI badging and an untouched powerplant is heresy, that thing is damned pretty. Especially for, y'know, a Subaru.
Hopefully so. If this supplants the tC and has an out-the-door price, for a base stick-shift example, around $20k, I'll contemplate selling organs...
'Reaming' is an awfully violent verb.
Wait, you... you're heartclicked? Christ, man. Takes a dickhead to know one.
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I scrapped my parts car today ('89 244 with the rockers/trunk floor half-gone and everything dried out from sitting) and wished I could have given it the same sort of sendoff. I did the next best thing, though - took everything usable out of it before it left. It'll help my other '89 244 and my '92 745Ti live on.
I'm in exactly the same situation. Probably best that I not suggest an Audi to any of my friends, though.
