Now there are some interesting and, dare I say it, decent looking parts of this design. But all I see from the front is a 1994 Ram prior to getting a nose job.

Wouldn’t that be Firestone?

Yeah this has big time band frontman that has a Mercedes collection vibe to me.

My 2014 BMW 335i 6-speed. That car was so much fun all the time, perfectly balanced and the correct amount of power. It was so good I kept it for 10 years and only recently sold it because it was at 150k and needing some repairs. And kept it all throughout all the wife’s fun cars over the years.

I got mine done at 80k and was showing signs of needing replacement in the near future when I sold it at 150k. Summer tires were stock stagger and winters were squared size, and the shuddering happened more often in the winter. So it could potentially be a 40k mile thing if there’s something off with tire wear/sizing.…

Yep, all I could think about when I saw the headline was that they’re spending basically their entire marketing budget on a stupid EV minivan that’s $20k too expensive and will only sell to a few rich ex-hippies in California. Their plan to try to cash in on nostalgia with a vehicle that’s not attainable to nearly as…

Yeah, we’ve had two VAG cars, a MK7 and now a 2.0 Macan. I looked at the MK8 GTI but couldn’t live with that interior, unless you set the auto temp once in your whole ownership and only use carplay for anything, no driver assist usage, it’s exactly as bad as everyone says.

Boring, a bit unreliable, and wasted potential is pretty much most mainline American cars though, that hardly makes the Dart the worst. Plus is it really an American car, since it’s an Alfa Giulietta underneath?

So I can go to a BP station and spend... exactly what I would at a different station then...

Despite how much I hate the brand, Hyundai Santa Cruz should get an N model. With how domestic truck brands have gone all-in on the offroad bro trucks and completely abandoned the cool lowered street trucks, give the Santa Cruz a slight drop, the N engine, a DCT, and some cheesy graphics and you’d get a fun truck…

My car was a manual and 2nd and 3rd gear were the worst shuddering especially with any load in the car. 6th gear acceleration was perfect. My indy kept the car for a couple of days driving it all around with diagnostic tools because they thought it was a misfire that wasn’t throwing a code, and they didn’t want to…

A 500 Abarth would probably fit the bill too for a good flip, since they’re a cheap throwaway car but also fun, it could be similar to the SRT-4 where originals are worth good money since they’re all modified or beat to shit.

Two cars stick out to me that have a pretty well-defined floor but will only go up because of how analog they are and easily totaled: Lotus Elise and 1st gen Viper.

Unfortunately, VW has proven itself to act like they know better than the consumer many times in the past few years, so there’s no chance. Given what they did with the GTI (took away the manual the same model year they put physical buttons back, so you can’t have both), if they put a gas engine in they’d also take off…

They’re for rich former hippies in CA who aren’t off the drugs enough to realize that they’re paying $70k for an interior no better than a $30k Taos. For that kind of money you could convert a real, old VW bus to EV or just buy a gas one and a real car.

It could definitely be the weight or torque differential causing uneven tire wear front to back too. I’ve heard BMWs are pickier than basically every other brand on tread depth difference between tires because it’ll rip through the transfer case.

Man, the rear end on those is atrocious though. I used to think it was the ugliest BMW but they’ve really upped their game on the ugliness lately with the 4-series/M3, XM, and iX.

$7,000 is insane. I had my 335's transfer case replaced at a specialized indy for $3,800 a few years back. I know inflation but it’s gotta be a similar system if it’s the same engine.

I had two:

On the last one, I’ve pretty much stopped making specific recommendations too, but I’ll tell people not to buy something 100%. If someone asks me what to buy, I might give them a segment to look at or at least 3 options to look at in a segment (so then it’s truly their decision still). Now if someone asks for a…