To add to the pile, the social awkwardness that comes from knowing people who willingly buy bad cars and/ or treat their cars badly.

Tulsa Speedway

Alright. I’ll say it. Volvo CrossCountry? They are luxury, true, but they depreciate like a stone and therefore used ones are excellent value for money. And look at that rubber trim. That reeks of dependability, even if the engine may not.

Money before people,” that’s the company motto. Engraved on the lobby floor. It just looks more heroic in Latin.

Top Gear’s Worst Car in History made a good case for these cars too, iirc. Basically saying the same thing: you must consider the origins, market, and intent. Hence why a Lexus took the shameful crown.

Isn’t VW doing this by just renaming everything “Golf”?

In October I took my Alfa on a twisty road that unexpectedly turned gravel and I can confirm, it is a lot of fun! What I really wanted out of it, though, was to be in the cab of the F250s and Silverados that were going the other direction, because I can’t imagine what it must have looked like to see a little Italian…

Worst has to be a 2016 Audi A3 with 24,000 miles on it. The transmission was shockingly bad, the ride was loud, the gas pedal didn’t to have any meaningful function, the cruise control was a bad rip off of the Toyota system, and it had more “poverty buttons” than a 90s Civic DX. Also it had worn out summer tires…

That has to be the most reasonable response any public agency has ever produced.

I’ll just leave this here....

Wait but seriously... how is the possible!? That car by default would be front wheel drive. Even if it was AWD, the traction control must have been flipping out! I just... I... I need a drink...

It had to be a RAV4

This. Sometimes it also works that you can pick up at the non-airport location but drop off at the airport and avoid a lot of fees that way.

I bought one of these are they are properly insane. Also probably not legal. Seriously... the sideband noise (or whatever the correct term for that) is so bad it was actually blocking my key-less entry when on, despite being an order of magnitude different frequency.

I bought one of these are they are properly insane. Also probably not legal. Seriously... the sideband noise (or…

So... I love that you keep accidentally using “Alfa” instead of “Alpha”, shows you are a true car guy, but probably needs to be consistent.

Oh that makes sense. Also if the track is being particularly frugal, they might be cutting them in half and handing out half to each driver?

Oh wait... no. Looks like the GTR one was cut in half for... reasons. (Full disclosure: never been to a track, have done work with thermal printers, no idea why you would have a ticket cut like that.)

I assume the tear was because those two slips would have come from completely different thermal printers with different paper widths. But yeah, even looking at the typeface it is clear those are two completely different pieces of paper spliced together.

Hmm... if it was in the VW booth I would say it was a prop that hadn’t been lit yet...