A buddy of mine had a 2001 740i Sport. You really can't exaggerate how little they're worth. He paid about $22K with a bumper to bumper warranty in 2005. In 2006, the warranty company paid out $7,700 in repairs, and that didn't address the slipping transmission, the engine with a miss, the power steering that…

@JRApps: I don't think the US received any VTEC CRXs, so that will be a difficult search.

@facelvega: Don't mix up your subsidies. The Big Dig was for organized(crime) trades in Teddy Kennedy's district. Nothing to do with cars, everything to do with the same nazis who want to send people who won't comply to the gas chambers.

@wohho: European trains are not cheap. They're subsidized. They're the reason gas costs a fortune in Europe. When you buy a liter of unleaded, most of your money goes to pay for a grossly inefficient train or empty bus. If you actually paid the price of the service, you wouldn't even consider taking a train.

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@RepoManChitown: Our gas taxes are already being diverted to pay for wasteful programs like mass transit. We don't need higher gas taxes, we just need to spend them on roads.

@wohho: They like trains because they hate the freedom that private cars represent. That's it.

@IppoJ: I wish you were right, but that doesn't explain references to 'highway overcrowding' and "the challenge of rebuilding infrastructure for regional high-speed rail." These idiots clearly intend to burden the nation with a retrograde step to passenger rail.

@wohho: heart click for you. I do think you'd be surprised to discover just how (un)profitable rail is in the places it remains though.

When do we bring back horse dung born illnesses? That's what cities are really missing now! Trains will come in handy for moving undesirables to concentration camps, but I don't think fancy stations are going to fool them this time.

The remarkable thing here is that it isn't raining in the Netherlands. I lived there for 6 months and never saw such a scene.

@SS-K2913: Does anyone else here who nominated a car have as much experience with both that make and many other makes on the market in the same era? Sure, everyone gets an opinion. Most of the ones expressed here are based on much less expertise than mine. Not all, but definitely most. There are people who swear by…

@bacon117 - Escort Owner, Lover: Chapman struts are just MacPherson struts used for rear suspension purposes, so they don't have much to do with FWD. The first uses of MacPherson struts were RWD Fords, but front wheel drive and MacPherson struts cetainly had a symbiotic relationship.

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@tonyola: BTW, do you remember the 200 MPH, twin turbo, propane powered 1st generation Cadillac Seville that Car and Driver once tested? It had ground effects tunnels where the rear seats might have been, Centerline wheels, and a license plate that flipped down to reveal a landing light for blinding the fuzz. It…

@tonyola: If you were there and you know what they were like new, I'll take your word for it. I feel your pain. I suffered plenty because of my affiliations with Saabs, but I always have to put up with know it alls who think Saabs are going to solve their daddy issues, even though they weren't born when GM bought that…

@SS-K2913: They broke down on test drives during the '80s. The mechanics freaked when new salesmen drove them to lunch, because it usually meant more work for them before the cars could be sold. There had been an independent Saab dealer in my town that failed a few years earlier. During the 99 years, they had a row of…

@tonyola: I had a neighbor with a 1976 Sedan Deville (really a 4-door hardtop rather than a sedan) with the optional 500 ci V8. It was actually in excellent shape even though it was 11 years old, and it had a convincing feeling of quality. The doors opened and closed solidly for a hardtop. The areas exposed by opening…

@tonyola: By the time I drove one, it was far from a new car. They seemed to suffer from GM's short lived interior materials. Amazingly, I'd say there are at least 3 gen 1 Sevilles in my zip code. I only ever see them parked in the same spots though. I can't be that impressed by the 1975 Seville. GM had the technology…