Also, Frankfort up north. You’d think there was a dealer in town there’s so many Outbacks and Bajas, but the nearest is like an hour away. Whomever up there specializes in Subarus up there must make a killing.

The Outback’s in Asheville I get. Care to explain the 4Runners? I was there last fall and they were EVERYWHERE. Our Airbnb in the West end had two current gen 4Runners in the driverway!

It still amazes me that compared to now, back in the ‘90's, a hyper car wasn’t something that was guaranteed to sell. I remember the F1 was listed in the new car stats for years in the back of Top Gear magazine. I’m sure these days it would never even be announced for sale, they’d just contact a list of preferred…

I mean, nobody is going to use this that doesn’t consider themselves an influencer (it can’t be a coincidence that the term is only a couple letters removed from influenza), who should bounce themselves handily into oncoming traffic, thus ridding the world of one of the worse elements of the internet.

Agreed. I’d watch the hell out of a movie/limited series about the adventures of Lando and L3 prior to Solo.

Pretty sure this kind of thing has nothing to do with what the opposite sex find attractive, and more about the male power fantasy - impossible muscles, huge dick (and balls too I guess), and features that can be aligned with a t-square. Basically, these fucking babies have grown up on a diet of comic book physiques…

Scuttlebutt is the Sportwagen is out along with the vanilla Golf for North America once the Mk8 is launched. Honestly, I think VW has just been waiting to wrap up Beetle production for this thing to be built in Mexico, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the Alltrak hangs around for a while longer.

That truck looks like something a a movie studio would have for a background vehicle in some future-set near-dystopia flick. Is that a Silverado underneath or something?

Yeah good point. Actually, if you can find one that isn’t covered in rust (and good luck with that) a Mazda Protege5 is a fun wee hatch that’d be in your price range. I had one for a few years and it was always a solid driver and never let me down mechanically.

You know how he said his current winter beater was making him miserable, and you ‘get a Miata for driving in a Michigan winter on Metro Detroit roads?’

Does it need to be an SUV? You could get a Pontiac Vibe all day for the money you’re talking.

I was backpacking through Germany about 10 years ago and I crossed paths with this bro-y douchebag who told me that he and some friends tried to flip a smart car in Italy but they didn’t manage it. I asked him if they tried to pick it up from the rear and took no small amount of delight in explaining to the dunce that…

Can anyone who lives in Asheville explain to me why this thing is so popular there? My wife and I were there for a few days last September (great town BTW) and I don’t think there’s a greater concentration of 4Runner’s anywhere in the world outside of the factory than Asheville. Our AirBnB had two of the current…

I grew up in Ayrshire and BA would regularly have pilots train to fly Concorde at Prestwick airport, which at the time had the biggest non-military runway in Europe, so you could usually see go howling overhead. Absolutely magic.

Given what his character does for his bread and butter in Toast of London, I about did a spit-take when I first found out the man himself actually does commercials:

Not gonna lie, ever since that episode, this is how I’ve left every job: the entire lyrics of Total Eclipse of the Heart in my goodbye email (I don’t like to end on a down note). The best was when I left a total shitshow of a tech support company and spent my last afternoon spamming every line of the song into the…

So wait, they sold the Chevy Volt and the Vauxhall/Opel version in Europe at the same time? Is it me, or is that a bit weird?

What an absolute garbage car. Totally irredeemable. Whenever I see one - which, already, isn’t often anymore, so what does THAT say about the build quality? - I instantly feel sorry for the driver. Apart from the interior plastics you could grate cheese on, I absolutely hated most the doors, which combined a window…

Two things I loved / hated about that show: one was the team they had working on the show, most of whom seemed DEEPLY uncomfortable sporting the hair products they were forced to apply, and the second being the metric ton of clapped-out shite they heaped 10k of garbage bling on, like some reverse Roadkill where the…

Not to mention you’re guaranteed the S54 engine, unlike the clown shoe, which only got it the last year or so, If you can even find a Z3 M with the S54, you’ll be paying through the nose for the privilege.