And some people will be a jerk to you, no matter what.

Even in older Mercedes and BMWs, you'll notice a lot of nice touches that aren't tech-based. Techy blings don't mean shit in two years, but good designs will always be appreciated. My car can't do BT stream music from my phone, but it has an USB jack, so I bought a cheap $20 iPod from Craigslist and loaded all of my…

Fuck other people's perceptions. I drive nice stuff and get tired of guys trying to drag race me at stop lights. My solution is to not race them.

I just bought a beautiful low mileage used Carrera 4 at the price of a barely sporty regular new car and it has mostly been sitting in my garage because I'm afraid of what people will say. The only two times I have driven it around town, people stare, try to race me and generally behave obnoxiously even when I am…

"Hey man! Hey....listen, my wife is in the hospital and I need some cash to get her out. I got my kids here, you think you could give me a little something to keep me going?" He then proceeded to roll down the window and showed me what looked to be either scared biological children or relatively well-behaved hostages.…

Thats a cool story. But also a "Penultimate NonStop Best Case Scenario In My Automotive Driving History" story. I'd love to read the article of the person that did this but didn't know how to fix car electrics and stumbled and possibly left the car in a junkyard after multiple failed attempts to get the car running.

Very well written and thought out.

Exactly one week ago a 10 mexican cents coin (0.008 USD), which is no more than half an inch, fell between my driving seat and the console, instead of using a magnet I tried to use my fingers and it felt into the rails that make the seat go forward or backward, that coin is stuck for ever there.

I've fixed fun and formerly expensive cars a number of times. I've usually enjoyed them and not lost too much money. I've also daily driven big cars from the 60s and enjoyed them a bit more, surprisingly 50 year-old Cadillacs and Oldsmobiles are just as comfortable as a modern Merc.

Incredible....why doesn't this come on more cars!! They charge you out the ass for color matched badges on the outside of your car but they won't give you the option for the 6$ of carpet/plastic of stress saving goodness!

poor poor allroad. gets no love here....

"Hey man! Hey....listen, my wife is in the hospital and I need some cash to get her out. I got my kids here, you think you could give me a little something to keep me going?" He then proceeded to roll down the window and showed me what looked to be either scared biological children or relatively well-behaved hostages.…

This isn't the same thing, but I bought a 3 year old Volt with 29,000 miles for $17k. These were 40k new hence a huge savings. People are well aware of how much these things were so even though its not a luxury car I still get some of that same attitude.

Walmart in Edison NJ carries Mobil1 0W-40 in 5 quart jugs. I have two jugs sitting at home.

So what you're saying is, it's only expensive if you choose to pay more. Got it.

Uhhh...then how have I been buying M1 0w40 for my 6.1 and now 6.4 SRT-8 since 2009 from WalMart?

Lol, no. Not even close.

What the hell kind of oil are you using? I've never even seen $18/qt oil, and that's including oil for racing applications.