So? With safe and reliable Full Self Driving, who needs fingers?

I don’t think it needs to be yet another testosterone dripping machine. I’d love something like a modern day Isuzu Trooper or first-gen Mitsubishi Montero -- basically a “pair of favorite jeans” truck that’s simple, useful for people, dogs or cargo, and can poke its way down a real trail every once and again. 

Ugh. Well, Lambo’s now off my shopping list...

Thought #1:

This is a very tough call for me. Back when this was new I was driving a 2009 VW Jetta TDI with a stick, but the appeal of all-wheel drive and a wagon body style called to me. But of course we were also talking a serious price gulf between what I had and what I wanted.

I think the C5 was the right car for it’s time, and particularly in convertible form still looks great. I had one for a few years, and when the C6 came out that new model just never looked right to me. And I never did warm up to it.

Put another way, you’re renting a brand new car for $8/day. That’s freaking incredible. 

2019 Volvo XC60 T8 R-design. Financed $50K at 0% and paid just over $1,041 for 48 months. Was way more than I consider sane for a car payment, but it made far more sense to keep the money working in the market. 

There’s no way I’d ever pay that much money to make myself look like a Dodge Bro, plus with this particular car I’d still have to go the hassle of putting my own yellow painters tape on the front spoiler. ND.

Old Pintos in great shape are cool novelties if you come into one because your Dad’s aunt died and no one else wanted it. You don’t go out and spend good money to buy one, let alone restore one. And this is coming from a guy whose parents had one back in the early 70s -- yellow with woodgrain, stick shift -- so…

I know I’m late to the party with this comment, but we need to include Jeep Gladiator drivers on this list. I guess no one else mentioned them since the Gladiator was such a flash in the pan a few years ago and is already being forgotten. 

Have to admit this car loos like fun. I could easily see tooling around in this and it’s easy enough to work on when it need stuff, which will probably be fairly often. But the miles and the price are just too high. If it were $5,000, maybe. But they’re asking pretty real money at $8,800, and there are other toys to…

Oh, please scrap this old girl already. Sure she has an interesting past, but sadly she has no future. Any dollars spent keeping her around are just wasted dollars at this point. 

This. When the access to my Volvo’s phone app expired after 4 years they wanted $199/year for me to resubscribe — for basically an app that told me mp MPG on trips, could remote unlock the car and show where it was on a map. I hope my not buying this makes Volvo realize that I’m not playing their game, and the gall of…

Indeed. And in the unlikely chance they DID have something to do with it... yikes. The lights are shining on them now, that’s for sure. 

That’s some easy, comfy, care-free motoring for for under $4K. This is “The Millionaire Next Door’s” ride... you could get 5 years of little cost transportation out of this thing while saving a boatload of money. Absolute NP.

These guys make me sick. I’ve heard that they estimate it would take $300M to find a cure for Parkinson’s. Why they hell wouldn’t someone like Musk just put up that money and be a hero? Or give a billion to cancer research and be known for the rest of history as the man that put the final nail in that horrible coffin?…

I give it a NP. It’s a clean BMW from the time when they were actually driver’s cars, it’s got a stick, and even though it’s not the pinnacle of performance M3s,  it’s got a convertible top, so there’s motoring enjoyment to be had there. 

Yup. Giving that corruption empire the keys to the Government is going to destroy the economy. 

I don’t expect a lot of valuable contributions to society from these guys.