I’m not comfortable leaving more than a few euros on the side of the road. I’d rather spend a little more than that on a comfortable pair of gloves and then, you know, take care not to leave them on the side of the road than buy the cheapest ones I can find.

It’s not considerably cheaper to be honest.

Let’s just say broke-ass Jalops are probably not their main target.

That’s a weird criteria. Do you apply the same logic to all items of clothing?

The Stradale is $800, I think you can find watches with the same movement (or very close) for several hundred dollars less. The Prototipo watches don’t have Miyota automatic movements, they have Seiko Meca-Quartz.

Is it all about the movement though? You can buy much cheaper watches with the same movement, but they don’t look the same. They charge for the looks, it’s up to you to choose wether or not you like them enough to justify the asking price.

Don’t you like tachs?

Exactly. There are cars that just make more sense as automatics. You wouldn’t request a manual Rolls-Royce for example, it just wouldn’t fit the character of the car.

Only using your car for short commutes and getting the groceries isn’t a “wealthy liberal” thing. In 2015, it’s how most people use their car, every day. Driving across several states using the b-roads is a specific need many cars don’t need to fulfill. If the Model S were a novelty it wouldn’t have been such a sales…

Wow, I didn’t realise they made so many.

How many cars a year do Morgan make? With the 3-Wheeler and Aero 8 range, they may very well build more than that today, but it can’t have been much more than 20 only a few years ago. And they’re certainly an established carmaker, if only on account of their longevity.

They’ve been around for 16 years and have built 290 cars. That’s not bad for a boutique carmaker. There are sports car companies in England that put out less than that yet people never call them vaporware.

They’ve put quite a few cars on the roads already.

GIMME GIMME GIMME

I think there was an article on Jalopnik about a year ago saying that the VW Group should just pull VW out of the US market since success still eludes them and bring in Skoda instead.

Well, that’s what you get for not buying enough French cars in the seventies. Our minivans are so stylish you wouldn’t be ashamed to be seen in them.

They don’t even have the same Passat. They have a US-specific model based on the previous generation that capitalizes on interior space and affordability. Basically, they made the US Passat a Skoda Superb.

The Peugeot 508 is C-Class size, not E-Class.

Man. Way to miss the entire point of the Avantime.