Owned first a Samurai and later a Sidekick. Getting parts was getting silly dealing with Suzuki... and then I remember the Tracker was actually a Sidekick. Walk up to the GM counter, place the order... 2 day delivery and 1/3 of what Suzuki was charging. Good times.

Not on 4 wheels but 2. I was having a beautiful ride in the wilds of Idaho. National Forest road along a raging river. I was on a BMW R100RS. I didn’t know where I was, but didn’t care. The road was fantastic, the mountains beautiful.

As a punk ass 17 year old heading to college, “Damn the Torpedoes” was in my cassette deck and played over and over again back in the late 70's. Mind you on graduation day from High School, I had “Born to Run” cued up and ready to play as I drove away - so long old friend.

Anyone know of an Attorney or Class Action for the VW salesmen on the dealer level who had it drilled into them, in very class, in every video training session: TDI are clean! Diesels are Clean! We were taught and drilled that for the five years I sold Audi/VW/Porsche. Please advise... I’m an underemployed shlub now…

I have ridden motorcycles in every continental state in our union. Florida is batshit crazy. Haves, have-nots, gated communities and scammers of all sorts. Meeting a true Floridan is a rare thing. Most are transplants from other places thinking Florida is “nirvana”. And then find out it is not. And the worst? The…

Sold VW, Audi and Porsches for 5 long years. I went into it idealistic as hell - I used to sell BMW motorcycles - how hard could it be? Big difference. People buy bikes because they want to; cars because they have to...

I remember looking at them on the BMW lots when they were new. $19k or so... but some were as low as $17k. Folks in America, then as today, weren’t too keen on hatchbacks. Personally, who cares?! I like ‘em. No real BMW fan (air cooled old bikes, yes, but new NO NO NO) and that goes for new BMW cars and bikes.

Walk away from shyster dealers. If you want a Golf R, shop around, be diligent, and don’t pay BS fees. Personally, when I look for cars, the Stealership, ‘er Dealership or lot dealers are the last I look at. I search on “privately owned” first and foremost, and 9 out of 10 times get a better car than any dealership…

I’m from the “other side of the hill” in NC. Our problem is a little different. My beloved region is being “loved to death”. Traffic is becoming a real issue, parking downtown is nearly impossible, and with creeping realization, we are turning my beloved mountains into places like Boulder, Moab, or Bozeman. “Worker…

Used to sell BMW motorcycles. If one fell over, or was dropped, it was usually - ta- da totaled.

Live in the mountains of NC, but... when we get get hurricanes, and we’ve had previous rain - it can flood in low lying areas. A genius from Florida (god, we get a lot of ‘em here) left his nearly new 911 convertible in storage - and canceled the insurance ‘cause it was “so safe”. With less than 1300 miles on it, it…

Oh the memories... mom drove me to school from Kindergarten to 4th grade in a Jeepster. Dad bought it new in ‘69 (previously had a ‘55) and he drove a Willys Pickup. Me? I had a ‘59 Overland Wagon. We were a Jeep family.

Back when I was selling air cooled BMW Motorcycles, we had a car lot next door. One I always remember is the Carrado VR6 we got in. Perfect, less than 10k on it, but the front seat was broken. It sat and sat and sat....until management said “get $1500 for it, we’ll spiff you $250...” Sold it the next day for $1500 -…

Dial back the wayback... saw him at The Who documentary “The Kids are Alright” in Charlotte NC back in ‘82 or so. He was in his full glory then. A little flutter of recognition in the lobby from fans, but when the lights went down, he was a Who fan, just like the rest of us.

Bartender here. Good advice in the video. I just make sure my glasses are only cleaned in very hot water with Dawn (they clean oil off birds with it - no harm to the critters), clean rinse, then sanitizer. So far, so good. I know they are clean - ‘cause after the last customer, I pour myself one - happily it’s not…

So VW has America figured out huh. The same company that shoveled “Diesel is clean” down my throat as I was a VW sales wonk for 5 hard years. Uh huh, yeah...

A couple years ago I bought a Mark 1 Rabbit Convertible. Full GTI interior, alloys, and a zip in cover that covered the entire interior (and could be half unzipped for driving). It was obviously very rare, and a prime example of what VW could make - pity they’ve lost the whimsy.

Too broke. Period.

Good to see some common sense in Houston.

Worked in Antarctica for 12 years.