“Last decade” rules out Death Proof, otherwise there would have been a tie between that and Fury Road. Which is the best car movie of the last decade.

Maybe it’s the light, but at first I believed the year of production to be a typo. I mean, that truck was built when this was already out of production. It looks at least 20 years older.

The picture at the top took me back to my youth spent in VWs whose interior designers saw it as the main point of their work to let buyers know exactly how much they did not get at their trim level. It was like rolling around in an OCD that had turned into hard plastic.

Maybe they do wraps these days. Until quite recently it was definitely a spray.

Fun fact: In Germany, the official colour for taxis is a certain shade of beige, known to lower resale value by up to 15 % (no kidding).

I love the grille of the brown car in the small picture. Like an updated last-gen Granada.

I am not sure what the question was. They were less efficient than today? Of course, 45 hp per liter is not much by today’s standards. But I doubt it was considered “performance” back then - Ferrari cranked out about 80 hp per liter and more in the 70s. 45 hp per liter, on the other hand, was run-of-the-mill well into…

The Routan and the Transporter are quite different beasts. For one, the Transporter is significantly higher. Also, a Transporter in what one would consider “car” trim is a pricey article. Where I am sitting, a base model with the 84 hp (yes, that is a two-figure output for a 5000 lb car) diesel costs about 28k in US…

I think that kind of deviled eggs turns into a gas station of sorts after ingestion.

I am not at all sure about it this. I, too, would love me an air-cooled Porsche, although not as much as Mike, because there were no Porsches around when I grew up, just a procession of base-level enginged VWs. But I, too, have a daughter, and for me her age (which I haven’t found in the article) seems to be the most…

Thank you so much. I was wondering about the connection between an MB and “Munich Motor Mafia”.

I have 3.5 mile commute and I wouldn’t dream of using a motorized vehicle for that. I wouldn’t save any time, but I’d have to endure stop-and-go traffic. A bicycle is perfect. My wife has a similar commute and uses an e-bike because her hill to work is a lot higher and steeper.

I am not young anymore, and this was the first year I spent that kind of money on a vehicle. And that was the family car, not a weekend toy.

Of course it will baby. A Mk III babied just fine, and the Mk VII is roomier.

It galled me to learn that while my 1st-gen Mazda5 had auto windows all around, the 2nd-gen model only featured an automatic driver’s window. I am not saying it was a factor in not replacing the old one with a later one, but I am not denying it, either.

I hear you. I was in the market for a V70 this spring. After trying the backseat, I didn’t even test-drive it.

When did book-Bond drive a blower Bentley? I only remember him driving a Continental he bought cheap after “some rich fool had married it to a tree”.

When our kid was born, we had a 3-door Golf Mk III. I found it preferable to a 5-door: You could comfortably hunker on the folded backrest of the frontseat while strapping in the kid in the back. A 5-door with non-folding front seats and smaller front doors would have forced me to fiddle with the straps while leaning…

Came here to post this, found it done.

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah (actually 13 lines of copy), “there is one case where trading is desirable”, “waitforitblahblahblahblah”, a lot more copy, “trade if there is something in it for you”. That’s some serious lifehacking right there.