Well, it may not fit the Jalopnik definition of "enthusiast car", but I bought my FJ55 for $1000. The ad didn't say much more than "not running, has rust, $4,000", and was posted for forever, so I am guessing that most people just ignored it as being overpriced and too much work. It was also listed as an "FJ…

Well, according to Kinja, it appears so! I guess I need to start calling him Bruce!

LOL. What the hell happened? The picture was right side up when I inserted it! Fixed?

The wife and I name all our cars.

Agreed. I actually thought that they should have released the Up! in the US as the new Beetle. It certainly has more of the ethos of the original Beetle than the current version. Small, simple, economical, that is what a Beetle should be. Not the huge re-bodied Golf that they are currently selling.

My wife and I actually both have VWs, and we both have had good experiences with them. Their current cars tend to have decent reliability (not great, but not terrible either).

The #1 reason I hear for people not wanting to buy a VW is concerns about reliability. If VW wants mass market appeal, they need to address that. While there is still much improvement that that can make as far as reliability goes, their current cars are, for the most part, much better than the early-2000's cars that…

Yeah, all it takes is one jurisdiction along the route to get a warrant for that 218 pages of GPS data, which they will promptly share with every singe other jurisdiction that he passed through, and it will basically be a slam-dunk case, time and time again, across the entire country. I would be surprised if this guy…

The problem is that the EPA numbers just don't seem to rate diesels at what they actually get in the real world - they rate them significantly lower. I have no idea why that is, but you can talk to almost anyone with a diesel and they will tell you that. So comparing EPA numbers between gas and diesel cars just…

And to expand on this a bit - the cuteness of the styling of the car guarantied that it would initially be labeled as a "chick car", despite the fact that the car has some serious appeal as being sporty and practical. It seems to me that the marketing campaign should have highlighted those aspects of the car, in…

Fiat and J Lo. Absolutely terrible.

Neutral: VW's touchscreen was a very pleasant surprise on my car. I didn't intentionally get it (I wanted a sunroof, which you can only get if you also get the touchscreen) but it has turned into one of my favorite features of the car. I think that the key to the system is that it doesn't try to do too much. It…

Yarp.

I am quite fond of the FJ45 Land Cruiser. Rugged, reliable, easy to work on, goes anywhere you point it (just not fast), gorgeous, and even has a removable top!

Definitely a different smoke. I just haven't tried a smokey alcohol I haven't liked yet...

The real question is, what constitutes a "failure"? How many do they need to sell for it not to be a failure?

See, that must be the difference. I am a huge Islay Scotch fan, so in my mind smoke = deliciousness.

Yeah, when I fist saw it, I definitely thought "That sounds terrible". But I still bought a bottle to try, because I am just that kind of idiot. I was actually surprised when I liked it. The flavor that comes through the strongest is not really the bacon or the maple, so much as just the smokeyness of the bacon.

I think that it gets a bad rap because people try to drink it like any other beer, i.e., drink several bottles of it in one sitting. This stuff is way to rich to drink that much of - I usually just split a bottle with a couple friends. Drank in moderation, I think it is actually quite good. In fact, I rather like…

Eh... I don't think it's that bad. It's not something I want to drink every day, nor something I want to drink a lot of, but I actually do like it. One bottle split among a couple people seems to work out the best.