If that’s it, it’s fucking gorgeous, IMHO.

My mom always said you have to earn your first car. I mostly did, so, cool.

ND on this.

And I literally saw my first one in the wild this past week....It is a gorgeous car, but when the Accord Sport will outrun and outlast it for less, it’s a tough sell. Can’t say whether the Accord will outwit it though....

I read this as blurp/beed and it amused me for a short moment.

My family’s 1979 LTD wagon had that “feature.” I always thought it was ridiculous. In a panic moment, do you really want to spend more time than it takes to hammer the centre of the wheel with your hand to hit the horn? I think not.

I actually had a dream once where I had just got a job at Car and Driver for six figures (Pfft! Yeah, right), and was trying to convince my wife to uproot our lives to Ann Arbor, while simultaneously getting annoyed at Patrick Bedard for some reason.

It’s nice, but maybe take the one of the front of the price.

This is all with the caveat that one can afford this stuff. When you don’t have the cash on hand, it’s tough, as I well remember.

Any Accord Sport 6 speed between 2014 and 2017 is an excellent choice. C&D said that anyone with BMW dreams, but not the budget, would be happy with one of these and not really feel the loss. the 2014-16 model could get you to 60 in under 7 seconds.

Mostly my dad, but not in the way you would think. We always had Ford station wagons when I was young. The one I remember most (and still dream about, oddly enough) was a 1972 Ford ranch Wagon with the police package. Black on dark blue.

I think it’s psychological — you see six digits instead of five and the fight or flight response kicks in.

Even God must be subject to morbid curiosity.

OK, first off, he says regularly commuting to see his parents, not daily.

Thought of another: the spark plugs on a Thunderbird Supercoupe. they spec’d double plats in 1989 because they also spec’d that the sparkplug replacement was an engine-out job. Others figured out how to do it with the engine in the car (IIRC, it was with wobble/U-Joint sockets and personal flexibility), but it was NOT…

Not sure if this counts as “unserviceable”, but the V8s in BMWs in the early 2000s had o-rings on the coolant transfer pipe — the one that runs below the intake manifold between the water pump on the front of the engine and the water manifold on the back of the engine. These o-rings failed early and often because they…

Ok, I won’t be buying one, too expensive, better bikes available, etc. blah, blah, blah.

An insurance company? No, they would not have made it right.

I have a couple of choices:

Agreed.  How could something that loud and rough be so weak?