I feel like we need a "where are they now" on everyone who has bought a cool used car based on advice from Jalopnik. Give me something to fill the void left by Top Gear.

Good question. All these autonomous drivers don't have their hands on the wheel, but at least they are paying attention, unlike the drivers texting on my commute home.

They didn't have hipsters when I was a kid, but I would say I was a contrarian. Different. Sure, being different for difference's sake may not be based on sound fact, but at least the alternative viewpoint (manuals rule!) is represented. Why judge why?

I have yet to see a brown BMW diesel wagon on the road, but they sell them here. In the US. In two shades of brown—Sparkling Bronze and Mojave Metallic. Aka brown. This is sort of my deal, but I would really like to read a review of a brown diesel wagon but Jalopnik says they aren't manual and are too expensive. None…

The blue TDI tester you see in these photos, equipped with heated leatherette seats, a gigantic panoramic sunroof, the GTI's XDS electronic pseudo differential system, premium audio system, backup camera, Bluetooth and other options came in at $28,815. A similarly-equipped TSI wagon I drove with the automatic was…

I own the previous gen A3 and after driving one with DSG actually decided against a slush box A4. I love manuals (and manual wasn't offered with Quattro AWD) but as far as autos go the DSG is pretty great. Might be a factor in lack of manual.

Since Top Gear relaunched in 2002 it's always been punctuated by a kind of nationalistic, libertarian, "fuck the Prius and environmental regulations" eyeroll-inducing sort of old white dude humor. No one encapsulates this more than Clarkson does, and while it's kind of part of the show's character, it's also gotten…

Never had a 126 but I had a Fiat 850 Spider and it had a pretty decent trunk.

Definitely Old Chub Nitro.

Definitely Old Chub Nitro.

This one didn't sell and he re-listed it for the same price. 4 days left and still no bids.

Sounds sadly like old-GM is sneaking back in.

I over-steered an e39 540i 6 speed off a ledge and did the same thing. About three flips side to side and landed wheels down. The driver's door was the only one which wouldn't shut and the whole thing was about a foot shorter, but I walked away. In pain due to the seatbelt tensioner having broken my collar bone, but…

Hey, it's British Racing Green, bro.

This is why you want to pay someone else, preferably not Torchinsky, to work on your cars.

Any more I do my own brakes. The markup for this job is just outrageous. Just bought a 2009 135i and my reliable local shop wanted $1,000 for just the front brakes! Parts for new Bosch rotors and EBC pads on Amazon was $250. It will take me about two hours, so call it $450.

Oh, don't bust him! I am from East Texas and one of my best memories was looking sideways from our family's Fairmont wagon while my dad hooned around in a (rare) frozen K-Mart parking lot. More power to the Texas winter hoon!

I really want a 328d wagon (they offer them in TWO shades of brown!) but man, they are still over $40k. If you compare it to most 3 Series these days it's not too bad, though.

I had the same car. Bought it at 120,000 miles (only in a Toyota) replaced the timing belt and had $6500 in it. Piled on 45k miles more and 3 years and sold it for $6,000. Demonstrably a great, and almost invisible, car of the 90s.

Yes! The most ordinary car of the 90s, and 2000s due to how long they stuck around. And you could have taken it back to the 80s and it would have fit in.

Yeah, but it's a Saturn so it's automatically kind of weird. Plain looking, but the shoddy seams and welds and wiring beneath the barely aligned plastic bodywork, well, re-read the first half of this sentence. Bland looking, milquetoast maybe but not ordinary by any means. Ordinary cars by now were of much higher…