I just know some day I’ll get home and the power will be out and I’ll be locked out of my house. That’s why I had some keys made and stashed them in the yard. No idea where, but they’re probably still stashed.

As a mountain biker who has never lost a key but remains paranoid it’ll happen, I’ve always been jealous of this option. Not jealous enough to own a Ford, but jealous nonetheless.

Saw the picture, knew it was you

I went to replace a headlight...opened hood, looked at what had to be disconnected, closed hood, called mechanic.

I actually like this little Rogue, and would be more than happy to rent one.

I met a woman once who said she was in “direct sales” or something like this and with a little nudging she admitted she was a spam caller.  She was a very nice lady just trying to make enough for food and rent.  God I hate her.

In the early ‘90's I dated a girl who’s dad just bought her a car. He said it was a red Mazda, which in those days meant it was probably going to be something pretty special. Nope, when she went to pick it up it wasn’t a red Mazda, it was an orange Monza (insert sad trombone noise).

I had the same 2012 GTI and after about 60k miles I wasn’t able to sleep thinking about the tensioner chain. I’d read that the change happened DURING the 2012 model year, so it was a gamble whether I had the old or new. I took it in to the dealer (my other mechanic said they’d best use VW parts for a job like this,…

Yikes! I hope they made good after the survey.  Or at least you live in a place where you can take your business elsewhere (which I ultimately did)

Escalade. Maybe not HIS style, but it does have it.

But if the dealer does something that is LESS than satisfactory the survey is a good place to express that. My dealer fugged up a repair so I unleashed fury on the survey. I got a couple of apologetic phone calls from the boss and the boss’s boss, and the next time I went in I was treated like a sultan.

Exactly this.  I had a ‘12 GTI and thought about looking at the GLI because it was a couple grand less on the lot, but it’s truly not the same car, so I didn’t even bother to drive the GLI.

My first car was an old air-cooled VW, and this is the first I’ve ever heard of this book.  Most of my wrenching was on that car, learned from trial and error and error and error.  Possibly why I don’t work on my own cars anymore.

I had a bit of that sort of anxiety myself a couple weeks ago when I traded in my GTI. I loved that car, but I wanted something a smidge bigger, a smidge cushier, and AWD. Oh, and reliable.

My vote is to ditch the Chrysler and do your road trip in the Trabant, amirite?  Anyone? Anyone?

He wants an Infiniti EX35 (or 37 or QX50, depending on the deal).  Same size as the Impreza, but with 300hp

My first car was a Type 3 which had one of these. Incredibly, the guy at the car lot actually pointed out this light and told me correctly what it was for. Later that winter I discovered I needed to drive one-handed so I could use the other to scrape the frost off the inside of the windshield, but this light gave me…

We had the Geo Tracker version of this, and after all these years I still have mixed thoughts. I loved the fact that if felt like a machine. Or rather, it felt mechanical, like an old car but with fairly modern conveniences. And in 4wd it had a completely different personality, like little Bruce Banner turning into an…

Didn’t it also have a carburetor? 

I thought that was Jack Torrance and Harry Callahan in the car