It wouldn’t be my first choice for my driving around town or long trips with the family, but for my weekly commute, (300 miles on Mondays and Thursday’s). At 84 MPG and $6,800 cost, it’s sitting in a pretty sweet spot for a commuter car.

I’ve read through the comments and almost everyone seems to be missing the fact that it’s a kids hand, not some beefy guy’s hand.

What about Farmer’s?

I had a friend in my Navy ‘A’ School who basically bought the same car in 1993. Except on his paperwork they accidently wrote V6 instead of the base 2.2L 4. He threatened to sue if they didn’t swap him out for the V6... Surprisingly the dealer swapped him for the V6...

I use to do that all the time in my MKIII Jetta.

Back in 2008, Park Cities VW in Dallas replaced my driver’s side window regulator in my ‘97 Jetta (with 185,000 miles). That’s 11 years old, well outside the warranty in both time and mileage and even outside the extended 7 year warranty for regulators.

Pandora allows you to expand your music on your station. You can add artists and individual songs. Plus there’s always the thumbs up / thumbs down.

Even I can spin the tires on my MKIII Jetta with the 2.slo on a wet surface....

Sometimes I wish I had purchased the diesel version, but I just couldn’t justify the price difference. We got our 2001 V10 in 2006 or 2007 and paid $12K. The only diesel I could find was $19K. And $7k is a lot of gas... (Even at 2008’s $4/gallon prices.)

And the Ex didn’t survive a trip to Boston in 2009. (Totaled in…

My V10 (gas) Excursion managed to get 13 on the highway. (And 12 pulling a 10,000 lbs travel trailer).

When I was in 5th or 6th grade (so 1982 or 83), two friends and I spent the weekend playing Defender to 1,00,000 points.

There are some actual good parts on the car if I had the time a patience to part it out. It’s just all the things that don’t work that are really holding it back.

Hmm. The last time I checked Edmonds.com, my ‘97 Jetta was worth $425 in a private party sale until you deduct $550 for the high mileage. So I pay to have it go away....

I’m not drunk on the current horsepower. My ‘97 Jetta 2.slow makes only 115hp, but at least it’s manual. No the early ‘90’s Impreza’s (at least with the automatic) were anemically slow, especially when fully loaded, on short entrance ramps, in dense urban areas where the traffic flow on the 8 lane wide (each way)…

My one ‘70’s car was a ‘76 Chevy Camero RS 350 (165 HP) and I was driving in Columbia, SC.

I was really looking for SOS to be on the list...

On a surface ship (target to Bubbleheads), nuke waste make up probably 90% of Deck Division. Along with the 10% who got scammed into going with the Apprenticeship program...

And I totally forgot to mention that this was back when Subaru’s didn’t all come with AWD either...

Early 90’s Subaru Impreza L

Pontiac Aztek