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Dreams, dreams... The fact of the matter is that there's only so much market for sporty and impractical fun-to-drive cars. If all of them jump on the same small piece of market cake, somebody's going to lose.

EconoBox, it seems like you're trying to justify your decision to dump the 2 (?) What exactly does that mean "jump the ship"? Selling the car because its resale value is low seems to be akin dumping stocks when they're down (well, almost). The way I see it: if you like the car -- keep it. If...

As it was said before, people suck. Not only at this -- many other things. Just look how's everybody driving -- and I don't mean lack of driving skills, but the lack of appreciation for others around. Because their (our) little useless problems and looser lives are more important than being...

As I live in NJ, it's not always me who sticks the gas nozzle into the tank. And yet, never had any problems, neither I nor any of the station attendants.

To add to that: with the gauge I, for example, was able to nurse my car home with the thermostat stuck at 'close' (or it could've been failed fan -- don't remember). Essentially, turn the blower on full heat and look at the gauge -- pull over and turn it off as soon as it starts to climb over...

There's, and I believe it's described in the Owner's Manual. It's a bit PITA too (need to remove hatch liner, if I'm not mistaken).

They might be run, but does that count as break-in?

Reminds me: once I was autoxing a car with a half-dead battery. Forgot to turn my radio off when going to work the course, and 2 hours later the car wouldn't start. Not to worry -- the whole paddock of automotive enthusiasts, right? Quickly found a guy with jumper cable, attached (+) to the...

While I think it's unlikely that anybody sane could seriously think of taking life over this (or take that statement seriously for that matter), I wish there were some practical means of dealing with the antisocial behaviors like that. As it is, there's little you can do about these kinds of...

Wow, that's cool, but I wonder whether it'd help. I'd rather have a steel bar or something like that all around (something like this http://www.doordefender.com/con_features.html, only metal) and let them dent their own doors on it.

You should've been really persistent in your attempts to pursue this. And lucky too, if your insurance (?) got to the bottom of it. And I thought I was paranoid, parking my 2 always at the very end of a mall parking lot, preferably in a corner stall (so that at least one side is never under...

I wonder: I don't think the M2 manual says anything about changing ATF. So, how do you guys decide when it's due?

I'm curious about that too. If the rotors rust on their friction surface and driving doesn't remove that -- I'd really start worrying about brakes not working :) But then, I'd assume that on any car front brakes not working would be quite noticeable even without rust (if you're lucky to manage...

Speaking of which: what's the correct torque specs for the lug nuts on M2? I'd assume something like 80 lbs/ft would do, but does anybody know what the manual says?

There's a thread on that in How-To section

Does 2 even have AT oil cooler though?

I see them, but rarely, definitely less often than, say, Yarises, Fits or even Accents -- those are everywhere. I regularly see a green one, just like mine, on my way to work -- probably because the person commutes to work at approx. same time in the opposite direction every day. Recently saw...

If you want it - get it. Life's too short. Just make sure the 2 goes into good hands :) BTW, Erv, those issues you wrote about AutoXing -- that's the car's revenge for you thinking about selling her :) You know, there's that theory -- if you want to sell your car - don't let her know about it :)

Those are Racing Beat, aren't they? You can put on RB springs too -- as far as I understand, they almost don't lower the car, while being somewhat stiffer.

It could be, or it could be not. Depends how it turns out. Not sure about the sale (never sold a new car myself), but I'd say it's not easy to sell an "almost new" car for the almost price of a new car. It's easy to sell an enthusiast car, but a regular daily driver -- you'll get asked: "Why...