What a goddamn poltroon.

I drove one of these in Germany and getting it up to even lowish Autobahn speeds was an exercise in extreme patience - and terror.

This jumped out at me as well. Live in California and you’ll quickly find a pretty good number of trips will easily exceed 100 miles.

Good lord he’s such a petulant little piss-baby

I’d suggest the Lada Niva...

A Golf GT TDI I rented in Germany a few years ago. That thing was quick enough for high speed Autobahn cruising and extremely economical. Super fun to drive for a diesel

Excellent choice. This was a truly horrific vehicle.

My dad (now 82) bought one of these when the first came out because the front end reminded him of his ‘37 Ford hot rod he had as a teenager.

For such a goddamn monstrosity, these have too little legroom. Same for the Expedition.

I was looking for this in the responses. Hard to kill the Panther.

I approve of this.

Fuck the little fucking fuck and his “college aspirations”. Aggressive pinheaded dickheads like him don’t deserve the privilege of operating a motor vehicle.

Golf Mk I to Golf Mk II was a pretty significant improvement.

NEEEEIIIIINNNN!!!!!!

All good points. It always seems that there are very few relatively short stretches where you can really open it up. Not like when I lived there in the ‘80s and there was a bit less traffic.

Ford EcoSport - yecch.

The Lincoln is the winner in this list, and I would add a similarly majestic option - a 1966 Imperial.

I rented one of these in Florida back in the ‘90s and for the time it wasn’t a bad rental car. But $4800 is truly laughable.

Absolutely. My dad was a hot-rodder in the’ 50s (he worked at Ralph’s Piston Ring Service in Bakersfield as a teenager), having owned a ‘34 Ford and a ‘37 Ford, both with Mopar power. Last car he owned before I was born was a ‘49 Merc. When I was a kid we rode around in a ‘54 Ford Victoria and a ‘54 Austin-Healey…

DU FOTZE