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Posted by: bikerPA Jul 5 2021, 08:09 AM

Hey everyone! I was chatting with cobas on Facebook and suddenly had a vivid hankering to drop by. Fortunately my fingers instinctively remembered the old password. It's wonderful to see a few familiar names in this thread!

153k miles and 17y 2m 4d later -- but who's counting? -- my '04 stickshift is still good fun. I haven't had a driving commute since 2006; it only heads out for rehearsals, concerts, errands, and the occasional road trip. It's been all beat up but is mechanically sound. The crumpled bumper convinces people to let me merge left on the Beltway.



In a few minutes we're seeing a dealer to hopefully replace my wife's '05 Mazda6 (a WONDERFUL low-key sport sedan) with one of the last new VW Golfs to hit Maryland. I plan to keep putting 4-6k miles every year on my XD2 until it just doesn't make sense anymore. I still love that thing, and it's in massive part thanks to this community.