I owned an ‘85 Supra and its little brother, an ‘83 Celica GTS (in coupe form) before it. They were very fun cars for that time and I would love to own another Supra just for nostalgia sake. You don’t see them here in the Northeast US any more as the tin worm has eaten most of them. That said, the price is just too…

Wagons > wagons on stilts. An RS wagon on stilts, no thanks.

F the haters on it being bland or not “a real GTO,” as you probably never owned or drove one. I owned a 2006 GTO and it was a blast. The “bland” looks meant the Po didn’t look at it twice (except maybe when you drove past, as it had a nice burble out of the exhaust.) Broken stitches in the leather are not surprising…

Interest rates - 18% on a new car back in the early 80s. My mortgage back then was originally almost 21% until the rates dropped and I refinanced. 

My 2015 Sierra with the 5.3 gets 19/22 in the summer and 17/20 in the winter. I’d get better highway mileage if my usual Interstate run wasn’t so hilly (I-89 in NH.) When I’ve had it out on the Ohio Turnpike, I’ve gotten 25mpg @ 65-70mph in the summer. 

Volvo lets you download them for free. Put it on a USB drive and drive to work while the nav updates, which is what I do on my V60.

Sorry for the delay getting back to you. I agree - I personally would not go to the dealer, but he has so much more money than I will ever have, he doesn’t really care. The only thing that’s gone out for service in recent memory was when my wife had a VW TDI with the DSG - it’s such a PIA that I farmed it out to a…

I had a friend with a C63 and the performance package - it was a really fun car that almost made me buy M-B (why I didn’t is another story.) While he had the money to repair it, the $4500 or so he spent at the Merc dealer getting the brakes done was a bit eye-watering for me (and I’ve since been told that was a pretty…

Grandma doesn’t mind — she has a 2018 Traverse AWD Premier for hauling the great-grandchildren around, and still has her 2002 Olds Aurora V8 for the leadfoot days. (Grandma is in her mid-80s and is still a serious lead foot!)

I’ve owned a DS and SM Citroën. The strongest drug I’ve ever used is single-malt scotch, and I’d love an XM. Philly is a bridge too far though.

Congratulations! You had a motivated dealer, and a motivated dealer will beat the GM employee purchase amount every time (like when I bought my GMC Sierra.)

I remember test driving a new one back in the day. I wish I’d bought it.

As a committed fan of the wagon (AKA “weirdos that like wagons”), I bought a 2017 Volvo V60 before the TourX was available. I did get all the “coming attraction” emails from Buick about the TourX, went to the local unveiling of the car, and recently looked at a couple on the local dealer’s lot while my pickup was in…

I have a 2017 V60 T6 R-Design with the additional Polestar tuning, and some of what you’re saying can be found in the current car. This is not a 10/10ths car handling-wise; you do get some vagueness turning into a corner at speed and what feels like torque steer powering out of the corner (it would be nice if the AWD…

That and my local dealer thinking they were made from gold and wouldn’t deal meant I took my business elsewhere.

My dad had a Chevette, and took it with him when he moved from NY to FL. A Chevette with no A/C... and black vinyl seats. I don’t think the windows were ever rolled up again.

We used to be able to watch Jeopardy before WoF on WPTZ Plattsburgh, NY, but Dumbcast cable removed it from our lineup. Now I have to watch WBZ Boston in the “wrong” order and it screws me up.

I’ve been watching Jeopardy since I was a kid back in the Art Fleming days. I think the questions today are moving too much…

I’ve lived in NH almost 40 years - when I moved here there were 2 inspections required per year! That sucked.

I owned a used ‘73 SM back in the early 80s. It was a wonderful car and I miss it, but it ended up having a transmission seal problem that was going to cost a fortune that my 2-years-out-of-school salary was not going to be able to come up with.

The last Buick I rode in was one like this as a child (‘53 Roadmaster, a hand-me-down from my grandparents to my parents around 1962). That said, I’d try the new Regal out, but there are a fair number of interesting cars in that $40K price range.