The “car?/SUV?/van?” argument is a selling point to me.  

I recently used the G-Wagen as an illustration of the term “Conspicuous consumption”

Automatic headlights should be hard-wired to your wipers as well as the light sensor.  At least mine should.

“in 600 meters turn right on Bischöflich-Geistlicher-Rat-Josef-Zinnbauer-Straße.

Ooooh...SVO!  I love that car

I wished for a Quattro, but was way too poor. I had the Coupe, though, and it was outstanding. The dashboard was held in by gravity, but otherwise the whole car was pretty solid. I asked my mechanic how many miles I could expect to get out of that 5 cylinder, he said “nobody knows yet”.

Lots of people like to say Kansas, but look at a map.  Nebraska is the same, but bigger.

Sorry.  That picture is the LAST of the V8 Interceptors.

Something about not getting the cabin pressurized properly. The captain said at any moment the oxygen masks might drop, but they never did.

No, they already felt like they’d survived hell

Air Canada used to be our gold standard for trips between Denver and Montreal. A week or so ago my wife and daughter had their Air Canada flight diverted because a crack in the fuselage. They flew at 10k ft to MSP and got rebooked (without seat assignments) on a 1pm flight the following day.  Scariest trip of their…

There’s likely an Acura in my distant future

We had an XC 70, an ‘01 I think, and the presets were better than nothing. But with the Acura it works with the fob, so it sets itself up just by unlocking the door.  The only flaw in the logic is most of the time the car is in the garage and not locked.

That would drive me nuts.  I figured out a shortcut for my infotainment...I circumvent the car’s voice commands by talking directly to my phone.  “Ok Google, play Spotify”

My wife if short, I’m tall enough that I can’t sit straight in the car until the seat backs up considerably.  Solved in my daughter’s 2003 Acura MDX, which has a different fob for each seat adjustment in the memory.  Its a shame nobody else drives her car though, because this doesn’t exist in either of our modern cars.

I’m driving an Infiniti EX37, that has kind of a cool feature. When I pop it into reverse I get a sky-view camera and the parking sensors let me know if I’m too close to something. Great idea, poor execution. Backing out of my garage it tells me I’m to close to the stuff in front of me that I’m backing AWAY from. …

I was going to say our old Volvo XC 70, but their comfort was unremarkable. I mean so good that you never even thought about the fact they were comfortable. I now drive an Infiniti EX 37, which has seats that feel like they were tailored just for me.  Soft, buttery leather that smells soooo good.

Neutral:

Dealers used to say ZDX stood for “Zero Demand eXpected”. I know this because one came up in the last search I did for a used car, so I did some due diligence before deciding on something else.  The decision came down to “do I want to explain this car to everyone I meet?”

This is like finding a really good price on nice dress shoes, but they have Velcro straps. And half a size too small.