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Well, it was yesterday, but instead of taking a direct interstate route home (about 2 hours), I spent about 3 hours bombing along on some back roads instead. Yeah, it’s in Illinois, so there’s no canyons or mountains, but even the local scenery looks and more importantly FEELS so much better on small roads. You can…

I understand your POV on this one. I live in a Chicago suburb, and none of those beautifully illustrated commercials for things like Miatas and M3s and the like that are shot on the PCH or in some remote mountain passes help me. Like, at all. Canyon-carving is excellent, and a great deal of fun, but our roads here,…

When I was in Puerto Vallarta a few weeks ago at my best friend’s wedding, we took a charter bus to the church for the ceremony. The driver had to navigate narrow, cobblestone, traffic-choked, one-way streets - all while driving a 3-pedal manual diesel bus full of drunk revelers. That man was an EXCELLENT driver, and…

(Apparently) Hot taek incoming: the 2CV is wildly ugly and you couldn’t pay me money to drive it.

Yes, absolutely.

That’s my favorite picture here yet. A roof rack on a Corvette? Rally lights? Nice!

That is an excellent way to wrap up your comment.

Ooh ooh ooh! I get to respond with Jalopnik-esque troglodyte reply!

Okay, I’ll take the Impreza WRX. We’ll borrow an orangutan for the Bimmer 5er estate. And if I ever need to borrow some of your door panel, I will do a very neat job of it. Thank you.

Yeah, I sure can’t right now. BUT! It’s an aspirational goal for me for sure. You can have your 911s and your S2000s and your Volvo 850 wagons - they’re all great cars - but I’ll take the S8 every time. I mean, this car has a Lamborghini V10 engine! Who doesn’t love that?!?

I have long lusted in my heart after an S8. I live near Chicago, so canyon-carving sports cars don’t really benefit me all that much. Besides, I’m a big guy. I’ll take a large, comfortable, powerful, sexy, fast sedan any day of the week and twice on Sundays to go bombing around the Midwest. Also, the S8 lets me live…

No, I hear you, and I love watches. My only point was that thousands of dollars for a watch is a lot of money for a lot of people. I don’t begrudge anyone their belongings in any way - frankly, I wish I owned a Breitling! Of course, I also wish I owned a Singer 911, so...

The cost of a car doesn’t really have anything directly to do with the cost of a watch. I was merely trying to illustrate that $3k can be seen as either a lot of money or not very much money, depending on the perspective of the person in question. I retract my statement that what you said was “factually inaccurate”,…

...I paid $2900 for my car. I’m glad you seem to have a large amount of disposable income, but to claim that “1100.00 for a watch isnt (sic) that much” is factually inaccurate.

These are the stories that keep me reading the comments section here on Jalopnik. Excellent!

“a (an?) historically good season”

Probably. I have a ‘96 LS400 with 189k on the clock and it feels like it could drive another 700,000 miles with no problem. Best car I’ve ever owned.

Yep. I picked up a 1996 LS400 last June for $2995 because I wanted a cheap car and no car payments. It had 183xxx miles on the clock when I got it, and everything on it works - EVERYTHING! - except the heated seats. For all I know that’s a fuse anyway, but we had a mild winter and I didn’t bother fixing it. Power…

The car is 53.6" tall. For comparison’s sake, the Mazda 3 5-door I’m staring at right now is 57.3" tall. So it’s normal sized for a car. I’m 6' tall and I can easily lean on the Mazda’s roof, so I’m guessing any 5'8" woman - like, oh, a model in Playboy - would be more than tall enough to lean on the Fox’s roof. So…