New cars, and especially new car prices, make me want to drive my beater BMW e46 forever.

There is no way we office workers, as a whole in the US, are ever going to permanent WFH. My particular office had a discussion of a hybrid schedule, but that was like 2 years ago and we are all back to full time in office. It was a fart in the wind.

Audi 5-cylinder in rally trim.

Yeah, this isn’t a fair headline. It’s kind of like saying “toilet paper sales are down 95%!” for that one weird month in 2020.

Can we assume by all of those complex curves that it isn’t stainless steel?

It’s like opposite Goldilocks.

I bet there are a ton of shitty Chinese EV’s with like 25hp and <100 mile range.

Wait... people don’t like putting mayo on hot dogs? People beyond those strange “never mayo” people, anyway.

Assume you are a drug dealer. You can make a large ($9,999) cash deposit for a car at a dealer, back out, and get some your money back clean. Dealers have to report deposits over $10k.

It is 90% money laundering and 10% rich people caught up in the moment.

VW Mk3 GTI

I never understood the appeal of those hard tops. In my mind, the whole point of a convertible is “hey, it’s a nice afternoon, let me put the top down quick.” A removable hard top that takes two people to remove and takes up a ton of room in my garage seems like a huge bummer.

I feel like there is more to the story.

The beaches of Daytona.

Too many curves! Haha

But they’re no longer interested in anything but plain vanilla designs.

I have a 2001 e46 with a manual. It has a terrible leak at the rear main seal. I’m debating repairing that, and while it’s apart, might as well throw a clutch at it. It’s not much money. The clutch is fine but why not?

I like the exterior and that color is great, but that interior is seriously dated and worn out. It’s a fair price, but not for me.

I got thinking about spoke count vs lug count and remembered Ford made a 7 lug wheel. Seven lugs, people. But at least they went with 7 spokes.

That stupid horse-collar grill needs to be, um, put out to pasture.