Congrats on the new website, but please, please keep crossposting on Jalopnik to a minimum. Cars and politics never go well together.

Stalk. Easier to find, controls are standard, and you don’t have to tear the dashboard apart to fix it.

An Alfa Romeo 156, 2L 5spd - one of the best fwd cars I've ever driven, but the costs of maintaining it are ridiculous in Australia, and everyone gives you grief for owning one.