They get a lot of hate here, but I think you have to throw the Mustang GT in here. Quick search on classified ads and found a 2008 GT Deluxe with 65K miles that looked clean for $8500. This is a car that has 300 HP and 320 lb-ft of torque. That is a lot of HP for the money and they really aren’t bad cars to drive.

You don’t have to go back that far. Think about the mid 80's Japanese cars. My dad had a 1986 Nissan Sentra - this thing was amazingly reliable and easy to work on. The only option it had was AC (I added a radio for him). No carpet, manual transmission, and vinyl seats. It had over 200,000 miles on it when someone he…

Good points, but I think where people go wrong is not purchasing a reasonable car (such as your Fit) when they are needing a car. Most people in America don’t live in cities where public transit is a viable option, so a car is a need, similar to shelter and food. However, you don’t need to spend $30K to get a reliable…

Everyone, please repeat after me: “Modifying my car does not increase it’s value.” Good, once again. “Modifying my car does not increase it’s value”. CP.

This! Honestly, I have given up on trying to sell cars private party because of this. Early in life, I traded cars often, but now I tend to drive them until there is very little life in them. When I am ready to sell it, “I know what I have” and it is past its usable life for most people. I’d rather take it to Carmax…

Bigot : a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices - Merriam-Webster

Every time I start to convince myself that you are not really crazy, you write another article and talk me out of it.

My dream road trip is to take a convertible up the Pacific Coast Hwy over about a week and eat and sleep exclusively at local restaurants and small inns or B&Bs. I think the ideal car for this might be either a 2 series convertible or a 60s Mustang restomod.

There is something about these cars that most Jalops miss. I have a Camry, and it is just a swollen version of the “it’s fine, really” that is the Corolla. I drive a highway, for 20+ miles every day to work, followed by traffic . There are no canyons to carve, no pristine highways to enjoy, just a boring interstate…

It doesn’t really have a roof, but...

2 of them did, 2 of them did not (as far as I know), but I did not purchase any of them new. They were a 318ti (trade, I would have loved to have a manual in this car), Toyota Camry (trade), GMC Envoy and Dodge Grand Caravan. I have 3 kids, so I have to have space for all their crap in the family cars.

IF NY does not want all the 6 figure jobs Amazon brings, I am sure another city will be happy to have them. They probably understand the increased tax revenue from a company like Amazon would pay for a Helipad a thousand times over and might actually help provide funding to fix other infrastructure like subways.

I do enjoy them. Of the 16 cars I have owned, only 4 have been automatics and for a long time, I would not buy an automatic. If you look at my other comments, what I am trying to say is we need to let go of insisting every new performance car come in a manual. No one buys them. According to this article, less than 4%…

Your right, it is petty and I don’t really hate them. I just like VWs and get tired of the shit they get from many people in the enthusiast community. I don’t like Jags, though. They look nice, but they are so incredibly complex and difficult to maintain. That is why I like the Ghia. It is beautiful, simple, and…

Also, I don’t street race (incredibly stupid) but you are naive if you don’t think people who buy performance oriented cars pay attention to specs. That is why every company is so quick to talk about how fast they made it around the ring, or what their HP rating is, or what the 0-60 times are. Car companies are in the…

I disagree. It is not a straw man, because it used to be true. Manuals were superior to automatics, so enthusiast gravitated to manuals. I’ll state for the third time, I enjoy driving a manual. I agree that it they are more fun, however insisting that all new cars should come with a manual option is not practical.…

Counterpoint, I hate jags, and love VWs, so I like all the love they get here.

Except car companies are not making them for most cars now, and people don’t buy them when they do (which is why they don’t make them). I agree there is no replacement for the feeling of a manual, but if we lined up on a drag strip in identical modern 3 series except for the transmission, and all other factors were…

I love cars, but the older I get, the more I realize that what I love most about cars is the stories and memories connected to the cars. Friends, family, road trips, vacations, first dates, all of these things have a connection with cars for me, and your article is a good reminder that often times, that is what we…

It think the time has come for us in the enthusiast community to let it go with the manual transmission. I get it. I enjoy rowing my own in a car. The feeling of letting the clutch out, feeling the car connect, shifting down, is hard to reproduce in an automatic. However, it is just that, a feeling. Years ago a manual…