Overheating, short-circuiting, fire-catching 1972 MGB. Basically any old British car.

Just need to learn to sew and you're good to go!

Having moved back to Texas, Matt, you need to get down to Leakey. Not worried about the secret getting out cuz it's a long-ass way from everywhere.

I drove my racist-xenophobic uncle’s (who would never buy a foreign car but would by this) and it was pretty amazing.

Got a bit of the Jeremy Irons to that front end.

You’re right, of course, but enthusiasts frequently make bad decisions. I have owned 24 cars and about as many motorcycles in 25 years (never more than 3 at a time) because I love them and having a new experience with a different machine. The only two new ones I had were a Chevy Tracker and a Mini Cooper S.

CarMax no longer offers warranties of this duration, and not at this price. Thanks Obama (Demuro?)

The chile in a kilt approves.

I like the looks. More practical with reasonable proportions. Mine would be proper green with red leather seats. Why do I want red seats so? Also have the sport package with 8 speed auto and paddles.

This is the new Takata! More interesting, if less deadly.

In Denver we have drive by emissions tests—they set up these roadside devices at popular intersections and if you drive by one and pass you don’t have to go in for a dyno emissions test.

Yeah! Or the vacuum tube hell of an FJ-60.

Hey, it's $3,140 for Slightly Different Shade of Red, so it could be even more ludicrous.

I am very familiar with what oily, leaky British cars do to concrete driveways and garages, but what does it do to grass? Do the patches ever grow back? Or is it like the diesel fuel we used to use to semi-permanently mark volleyball courts in turf?

X5? Why can’t American cars keep the same names and just upgrade the machinery?

What are the ropes on the A pillar? Are they holding the shredded uniframe together, as all of the prodigious power (seriously no, it’s what like 300 hp) is wrestled between the engine and the hitch and the 4,000 pound home-away-from-home all through the body of the car, nicely de-inforced by two massive doors on each…

Since the car is now Golf, call the ute “Rabbit”.

Can’t squeeze 20 mpg? My 200 hp Jeep XJ got 14 and my 295 HP BMW X5 got 15 (but at least on premium). 20 mpg might as well be as attainable as 50 mpg.

Is it British racing green? Please tell me that it is.

Shopping at CJ Banks. The Halloween collections are rocking and Christmas is next.