[87LC2]

I knew there was a reason I left here three years ago, the rusty old crap won't shut the smurf up.

I traded my '06 A4 in on a '06 M6. The A4 had 51,000miles on it after two and a half years, and the M6 only had 12,000. It was a garage queen, cleaner than the one I bought new. The main reason for the swap was the gearing on the six speed, plus I was able to get rid of some road rash and a bunch of miles. The M6 now has +77,000miles and I love every mile. At over 22,000miles a year an old goat would have cost a fortune and left me stranded in banjo country many times over.

To get an old GTO to perform, handle, get fuel mileage and be as comfortable as a '04-'06 would cost well over $100,000. That was proven by the Wangers "New" 1969 GTO, it cost well over $100,000 and failed to out perform a stock new era GTO in all categories other than dyno output.

When one of those old POS GTO's can do 80mph at 2000rpm while getting 25mpg, top out at over 160mph, pull over 0.95g and run 12's in the quarter....right out of the box, someone please PM me. Otherwise they are best used in a parking lot on Sunday's while seated in a lawn chair waxing about the old days. I'm 50years old and these old coots stuck in the sixties and seventies have got to learn to let go.

So done here.