My first car was a VW Type 3 fastback, and that car is still my all-time favorite to drive in the rain. Tail-happy, even making a right turn from a stop sign due to the massive buildup of fractional G-force.

I agree about the Astro, especially because it’s so funny to yell at slow drivers “Move your Astro!”

Came here for this.  And if my time-addled brain isn’t failing me, wasn’t the suspension designed by Lotus?

My old Jetta had one, and I found it a handy way to close the door...just yank on the seatbelt. Worked until all that yanking broke the sensor wire and the car wouldn’t start.

Maybe it’s not a glow plug, maybe its a merkin

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I nearly had one of these for my first car, but it was a couple hundred over what I’d saved, and at the time a couple hundred might as well have been a couple million. I didn’t have it.

For people my age this is a “neighbor’s mom who drives us all to school” car.

I rented a Subaru once that had the hazard lights on. I had to start calling people to find the switch, which was on top of the steering wheel column. Evidently when they were wiping down the interior they’d switched it on.

The used car dealer where we bought our daughter’s MDX showed us this trick. The headlights needed help, but for a cheap used car he wasn’t going to do anything more than a band aid fix. Good enough is good enough, and in three years we’ve only had to redo it once (didn’t really need it, we just had bug spray and a…

I have nearly the same story, but mine is boring enough to have gotten away with just a thumb print on my knife

We sold our Impreza after a weekend trip to Crested Butte to go mountain biking. Three people and three bikes sufficiently weighted us down enough to get passed driving up Monarch Pass...by AN RV!!  Wound out in third...bogged down in fourth.  Repeat.

I grew up in the ‘70's near Kenosha, and ours was an AMC family so I always wanted to see them successful. But I always saw the Gremlin and Pacer as a flailing attempt to “out-funky” the funky little Beetle, which completely misses the mark. The Beetle was successful not strictly because of its looks, but the combo of…

I was thinking about this very thing recently, and I decided that for me cars peaked between 2010 and 2015 (+/- depending on a lot of things). All the safety, most of the convenience, and dials you can touch. 

Maybe if you got her to understand that in this midlife crisis SHE is the supermodel in the passenger’s seat.

This is the correct answer.  For any of us, really.

Life has enough rules, so I invented my own board game. Each player rolls the dice, the person with the highest number wins. Everyone goes off to do something else.

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I was excited to see this post because I’ve been wondering this same thing. I drive an Infiniti EX37, which is normally aspirated, but the tank flap (and owners manual says it requires premium fuel.  So I’ve always put in premium fuel...but its suddenly now 60 cents more per gallon.  That’s like 10-12 bucks per tank. …

Back before the battery-electric mowers were as good as they are now I decided to get a corded electric. I have about 1/8th of an acre...not very big, but I didn’t factor in anything beyond that. You know when you’re vacuuming and you trip over the cord? Its like that, except the whole neighborhood is watching. And…