Strangely, our friends just swapped an '06 M45 for a Jetta Sportwagen TDI.

I've gone with plain unsweetened tea and sparkling waters. I cannot abide the lemon flavored perrier, it's just too much like cleaner to me. For plain water, the important thing for me is it needs to be very thoroughly filtered (RO), or spring, and COLD.

Are you sure you're not taking squat thrusts?

You're just begging to be dragoned.

Or in the case of Saint's Row 3, the "hero" is a much worse (albeit more built) version of me. I'd personally feel a pang of guilt for really doing the actions required to complete the objectives.

I wish it was more than just pandering to the Florida space coast voters.

He hopefully had a better transmission than the enterprise disaster I was stuck with. My sample size was 32 days and over 2,000 miles. My generalization was to attempt some humor about how much I, personally, despised that awful car I was stuck with. It's like rental car russian roulette.

60mph highway runs, 50 miles per day. Average economy - 26mpg. My GTI gets 27 combined doing the same trips, 31 on that particular section. @Mikey I agree that a Camry would be more appropriate. I've seen people buy those with their own money on purpose.

That's just cruel. Even the most apple-hating person couldn't fathom creating a Corolla from them. Ugly, inefficient, unstable, noisy, terrible seats, awful dash, cheap gauges, and inexplicable option packs. Heated mirrors but nothing else? Seriously? Why? Did I mention I hate that car?

He's doing them in Houston too. Westside Chevrolet. Surreal.

I guess the switch from IT to Business Ops is why my partner went with the VW CC instead of the A4.

I hope he's successful, it sounds awesome even if a touch manic.

Paid off my first car loan. The GTI is mine. Replaced our 14 year old Saturn with a CC on the 30th. Got my dad an Outback and my sister a 500. 3 relatives, 3 car deals, 12 months. If I never see the inside of another finance office, it will be too soon.

Paid off my first car loan. The GTI is mine. Replaced our 14 year old Saturn with a CC on the 30th. Got my dad an Outback and my sister a 500. 3 relatives, 3 car deals, 12 months. If I never see the inside of another finance office, it will be too soon.

Not all of it, this one didn't. She was out the deductible, and the one payment that came due before the paperwork was settled.

126k and counting on my GTI. What issues there have been, VW fixed - under a warranty extension. YMMV.

I know why MKS - the Taurus doesn't have seat memory for sharing in the SHO. Stupid decision.

That was the one good thing that came out of my sister's original deal on her totaled Prius. Without it she would have been holding the bag for 3k. Instead, she came out back to 0, which is better than it would have been.

Maintenance is critical. Our Saturn with 164k started having trouble when we started slacking off on the maintenance tasks. 126k on the GTI with a much more complicated powertrain and no issues because we now have maintenance religion.

I'm just thrilled when they don't actively lie to me. Fit with cylinder deactivation was my personal favorite from helping my sister shop.