I seriously doubt that rental fleet buyers give any consideration to the market, I suspect they’re more concerned with we need X number of “Sub-compacts, we’ll call intermediate” and we have Y dollars. Who’s volume number are in the toilet, we’ll call them first....

And are you implying that the 200 is an enthusiast’s…

I see it the exact opposite way... A 200 has all that tech, and still the only people who will buy it are rental fleet buyers, who don’t have to drive the cursed things.

Yes, but people will actually buy a Passat. I don’t know if ever seen a 200 without the rental fleet barcode on the window.

I loved the gameplay, but the opponent spawning was a bit wonky... If you liked to snipe, there were places where you’d see the opponents “staged” waiting for you to pass a trigger point. And you could take them all down easily.

I hate the “Call for Price”. Especially when the website doesn’t allow ne select a price range manually. (And when I can I search for $2-whatever, because of the asshats that like to list WTB as $1. I’m staring at you Craigslist....)

It seems that I’m always working on cars... I think the worst two jobs were the ‘88 Pulsar and the heater core on the ‘97 Jetta.

We had some friends in a similar situation, remarried, a good bit of divorce debt for both of them, a new baby and the associated hospital bills, etc. Their ‘99 Suburban was about to be repo’d and ‘99 suburban had a rear end that was going out... So I spent a weekend lifting up both trucks, disconnecting everything…

My grandma drove a shitbox Buick before she passed.

I tend to look for the higher end of the middle trim option. So I have a 2012 VW Passat I picked up 18 months ago (with 9,xxx miles). It’s not the base S model, it’s not the top of the line SEL model, but the higher end (w/ Sunroof an Nav) middle of the road SE model.

I have the obvious sunroof and navigation systems,…

When we had our counter tops done in granite, we picked the cheapest option available. It looked awesome and saved us a bundle over some of the “preferred” colors.

Hey! I owned a Pulsar NX 5-speed and it was fun to drive. The CRX is only a few hundred pounds lighter and they both had similar power output available.

I tend to respond to the “Will you consider an offer of half your asking price?” with a, “No, but for you, since you’re the first guy to respond, I’d be willing to let it go for (My price + your offer).” I usually get an “asshole” before the click...

I keep my multitool in the glove box of my car and for my EDC, I rotate through an older Kersaw Vapor

I hear that there’s a metal underbody shield available for the TDI Passat.

My apologies, I wasn’t aware that he had run a second time.

Um... David Duke ran for president as a Democrat.

When I got pinched in Plano on the DNT (Dallas North Tollway), they referred to it as Deferred Disposition. It was essentially a pay the offense fee + the court costs and don’t get caught again in the next 6 months. But it never hit my license...

I don’t know what the interior volume is, (too lazy to Google it), but I once had 7 people in a ‘76 Camero....

Full retail price, but at the end of the model cycle, when the price get’s discounted.
So 3 years ago I purchased a Samsung Galaxy Nexus for $250 for my wife. Two years ago I purchased a Nexus 4 for $250 for me. This year I replaced the wife’s phone with a Moto X (2014 32gb) for $350.

I hate that I got rid of mine back in 1990, but it was in rough shape after the accident...


... where my girlfriend (now wife) found a pair of girls panties under the seat on the test drive after the body shop was finished with the repairs.