Serioursly, though, you don't buy a Focus diesel wagon to tear up the 'bahn. If that was your goal, you would drop the coin on a turbo diesel BMW, Merc, or Audi. I drove a small Opel TDi van through the Italian Alps and it did rather well.

Yawn...

Under 40 Lincoln owner here. We bought an '08 MKX, one year used, and it's been a good car. You can get the Edge Limited, styled slightly differently, with almost the same features except for seat A/C (rather nice for Texas summers). I think the Lincolns could, and should, be made with better materials, just like how…

I don't care how good or bad you think it is, the 512 was doodled on many a trapper-keeper page in my 80s childhood.

My top wore out before the window did. Actually, the zipper wore out before the top. Now its sunny days, or hard top.

since drivers are so bad (I'd say most bad traffic and accidents are from poor maintenance, absent mindedness, and pure selfishness) we are cursed to continue driving ugly boxes. While pancake cars are cool looking, and I'd line up for f'in future designs, man, safety standards will prevent them. The biggest thing…

Appeared in a Road & Track special edition back in, oh, 89-90, I think? Along with Ruf Twin Turbo, Porsche 959, and Ferrari GTO, just to name a few.

My first thought was:

And the Sierra's red-headed American cousin, the Merkur XR4Ti

Not great, but a '79 Granada was my first car. Sweet front benches, yellow, white vinyl top, white walls, and a big V8.

To get the real suck experience, try driving it in the winter. :{

As someone that live in the Kaiserslautern, Germany area for nearly 12 years, I can tell you that most small roads in Germany are great. In the States, there are a slew of wide, straight roads; driving in Texas is abysmal. Most any place that is hilly, and, of course, close by, usually seems good to me. I'd vote for a…

Traffic cones, you know, for trafficy stuff.

Yup, you can buy one at the boarder. You should have headed to Switzerland, as a load of us suggested. ;-)

Not everywhere requires snow tires and, well, more weight over the drive wheels isn't a bad thing. Speaking of "good driving knowledge"; have you ever driven car in the States? It's more difficult to buy a pack of cigarettes than to get a drivers license in the US. I know from experience that a Miata on all-weathers…

Definitely Defender

Its a photo from an airshow that some of the Tyndall F-4s were at; Nellis in 20112, I think.

I'd say, Munich to Monaco, through Milano and Genoa, to Marseille, up to Basel, to Zurich, back to Munich. Lots of twisties in the Alps. Make sure to make one run on the marked track in Monaco, and photo-op in front of the Grand Casino.

Hitting to autobahn in a Z1, doors down, is windy, loud heaven. 7 years ago, while living in Germany, I organized a Bond tour driving Swiss Alps (Goldfinger), Italian Alps, Monaco (Golden Eye), Southern France (diamonds). Cars were (my) BMW E30 320i cabrio, Z3, Z4, and Merc SL 45 (1980s Gary). All fun and games until…

Still working off Sync in a 2008 Lincoln, but 2012 VW doesn't seem much better. Hit button, "*bling*main menu" "call (person's name)" "Options are radio, navigation, phone, or blah, blah, blah)" "phone!" "phone *bling*" "Call lastname, firstname" "calling similarttofirstname, similartolastname" *mash phone button to…