I had a fairly good conversation with my wife almost a year ago about setting up a comprehensive checklist for buying another car. I don't remember the specifics unfortunately, but here is the basics:

Yep. Snow = four winter tires, not four wheel drive.

But brown manual diesel Miata wagons are the best!

Buy all the AMG Merc for corrola prices!

The test drive thing. You have no effing clue how many people hop on forums & ask "how does it drive?" or "How comfortable is it?" Almost every time, the first response is "GO TEST DRIVE IT." — the only exception to that, is if they're buying the car to learn to drive stick.

That said, I agree with all the points…

Brilliant! #jaloplife

The answer is simple - just buy more cars. One of them has to be the right one!

A7 TDI...they didn't say "affordable"

I like the C4 more than the C3. A lot more.

You can get them for cheap. Just not the way YOU want them. If you want features your going to have to pay for them just like any other car. A lot of people want their truck to look like a Cadillac on the inside, and then are surprised when it costs an arm and a leg.

You can, and will, have fun in a FWD car.

This is not a general opinion, but more a Jalopnik opinion. I absolutely hate brown cars and most wagons. Together makes me want to throw up. No people wagons do not look better then coupe versions of the same car. I'll give you the CTS since that coupe just looks awkward.

I dislike both the E46 M3 and the E39 M5.

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Following so far? Good...here is where things will get confusing. The current mid-size ML class SUV will become the GLE.

Not a thing. Try again

probably some semblance of sense compared to BMW but still some BS... take for example the GLC 350 which has a 3.5liter V6... so we have a SUV (GL) in the mid range class (C) with a 3.5 liter V6, perfectly sensible.... but then we get to the diesel GLC 250 which of course is a 2.1liter turbo I-4 which means it should…

More logical than before I guess. But they'll still keep doing marketing trickery to make some models seem more upscale than they are deep down.