James May (aka Captain Slow) did a nice segment about Prora and the KdF-Wagen as part of his ‘Cars of the People’ series.

Hmmm, maybe “Sudetenland,” “Paris,” “Warsaw,” and the legendary “getting all the way to Stalingrad.”

They’re presumably married, and about to engage in some state-sanctioned coitus to provide the regime with more citizens to educate into productive workers and effective soldiers.

to be fair, a dead battery after leaving something plugged in isn’t unreliability, it’s stupidity

Didn’t you just say this was your most reliable vehicle?

Sorry, but was the propaganda poster advocating copping a feel?

That argument would hold a lot more weight if he wasn’t a documented workaholic who started his own rocket company. I’m willing to bet if you gave 1,000,000 people the wealth Elon had from his family none of them would achieve what he has. He may type some stupid shit on the internet but he has focus (likely from…

Here’s mine (all purchased used and at least 3 years old):

Well, I am not a G8 owner and I think they look better than the GTO and SS, especially the preface lift GTO. The SS looks like a bland police car and the GTO is too soft and round in my opinion.

I’d like a few different axis.

Reliability: On any given day, all else being equal, how likely is this car to fail?
Finikiness: In order to hold a reliability number, how much work/maintenance needs to be done?
Survivability: How long can this be expected to last without spending x% of the car’s value in a single repair?
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I’m a fellow Oklahoma-City-an. I think you should get yourself a Jaguar. $30K gets you into XKR territory, although you might have to travel.

Corvair, beetle, and other air-cooled cars are great examples of Bodgeable cars.

The GTO is nice, but the Pontiac G8 GXP was SOOOO much cooler and better looking IMHO, especially if you can find a manual. Also, he did say “4 doors preferred”.

I am firmly of the opinion that the owner matters FAR more than the car. I can drive a Range Rover and get very reasonable reliability out of it, my dumbass brother killed a Corolla.

Also have an ‘03 Tundra.  There is literally nothing you can do to kill it.  It is the V8 version of the Hilux that Top Gear couldn’t kill.

This is great, Jason. I thought it might be easier to express as a matrix, though, so I took a shot at drafting one and filling in your categories. It revealed a new classification which I’m calling “Appropriate”.

Forgive me, but it has to be said: 1st generation V8 Panameras are available at this price point now. I say this as someone who has only very recently stopped hating these cars with all of the passion in my heart.

How about the forgotten V8, Infiniti M56? A 420 HP 5.6L V8 and plenty of Japanese luxury. This one is at Carvana in San Antonio for $10 shy of $22,000.

This spectrum is useful, and it puts into words how the definition of reliable may change not just between people, but between cultures.

“...they assume their drivers will subsidize underpriced rides.”