I had a similar first-time experience on holiday in Scotland last spring. Mister Gradenko and I rather enjoyed our little Skoda.

I sorta like these. I’ve always thought they were meant to look like saloon cars from the 1940s. 

OMG we have that book at my kayaking club.

Somehow this movie and Gung Ho are the same movie.

Yeah, it is a bit dated.

I’m still not clear on whether you ever get to own the car under these subscriber models. I thought it was like some weird lease-to-own. If you can subscribed for as little as a month, that makes less sense.

Nice Price Crack Ad.

You gotta wonder how much of that is skewed by what’s on offer. If I were in the market now, If my choices were turbo wagon with automatic or sports car with stick . . .I’d take the wagon bc while manual’s important to me, wagon is more important.

I always think of this as the Walter White car, bc I never saw one IRL until years after the show was off the air and I’d speedballed it via Netflix.

I’m probably on the wrong side of this, especially since I’ve barely wrenched, but, off the top of my head, the past three years:

I have liked the look of those MKTs, they look to me like ‘40s-era saloon cars.

I’ll take your word for it on the picture. My eyes, they ain’t getting any younger :)

When I was a teenager we lived in Germany, late eighties. Pretty sure I saw one of these from time to time, though it might have been four wheels, not three.

The “mapped to an automatic” part. Thankfully, a more thoughtful reply gave me and idea of what’s in play here.

Expected to say NP but:

Hmmmmm. GM era, second generation (2005)?

Mister Gradenko and I debate this. He has a Prius, with the toe-brake, which I irrationally despise. My Saab has a old-fashioned e-brake, and while I fantasize about making bootlegger turns, it’s mostly a parking brake . . .until someone points out that on my car, to remove the key I lock the transmission, so it’s not…

Well, I’ll just run out and by me a Continental then!

Almost exactly twenty years ago, my brother and I drove from NYC to Tulsa in about 27 hours.

That’s “feel le bern” as in “enjoy the beautiful city of Bern, Switzerland, and collection all those little two-letter country-code stickers Europeans have.”