Have you bought a new car ever? Would you say that’s a modern, online commercial transaction (excluding Tesla)?

144,000 of them in the US in 2018, fewer than Forester (172,000) and Outback (179,000) but still a lot.

Shit, I’m in my mid-40s and the largest vehicle I’ve ever owned was a B5 A4. When I need to haul something, I rent a pick-up from Enterprise, like a sensible person.  Trucks and other heavy vehicles are an absolute bore to drive.  

As someone who has purchased a 2014 Fiesta (ST), 2018 Forte and will buy an 2019/2020 Impreza soon, I can confirm that small car owners do like to stay with what they know.

FTFY.

NO GAS WILL NEVER GO DOWN BUY A GIANT CUV/SUV/TRUCK SO YOU CAN MAYBE MOVE A DRESSER IN THE NEXT ONE OR FORTY YEARS.

I’ve driven a number of Beetles, I find them rather a lot of fun actually. <shrug>

Here’s what I learned: Don’t have kids, have a spouse who supports your jalop, and drive cool cars.

Listen to me kids. GET YOUR FUN CAR NOW. Do it while you have little to no responsibility. You’ve got the rest of your life to do the right thing. Young and stupid is expected. Old and stupid is just stupid.

My biggest regret was selling my clean, low-mileage 2000 BMW M5. I had just done a bottom-end rebuild to replace the rod bearings (caught them just in time before any real damage happened) and it ran beautifully with no check engine lights or errors or any kind. I drove it to Bimmerfest 2016 with a friend and had a…

I just saw this. Sorry I didn’t get a chance to contribute before, you guys would have sent me flowers and shamed me.

Thank god there are people who pay for brand new cars that I can drive used after 2 years with no 10k depreciation loss.

Mercedessource is excellent. Great info for older Benz owners (I have a W201). I also like Ken’s charming Washington state congenial style.

The humble mechanic if you own a VW.

As someone who suffers from various allergies, I’ll try to be as diplomatic as possible here. That said...

Hey Franken; BULLSHYTE; I lived in CA for 20 years and the RULE was pull right and NOT

@LuzioRaglestein: At their heart, traffic laws are supposed to be about saving lives (though they're awfully good at making money for states, too). There's no data that suggests that driving faster than the speed limit is more dangerous than driving the actual speed limit. However, when a stupid buffoon like…

@LuzioRaglestein: Your logic is that of a douchebag. It sounds like you just like to block the impatient people.

@LuzioRaglestein: Wow, so you feel that deliberately getting in the way of traffic that's going faster (regardless of speed limit), you are slowing down the speeders? What the fuck kind of logic is that??

The *only* time I don't obey this law is if I'm already traveling at 10+ over the speed limit and moving right would require me slow down to 55mph, or whatever ridiculously low speed the right lane car is traveling at, also forcing me to be stuck behind this car until the long lane of folks traveling behind me have…