1) That’s what “fun” looks like.

This blew me away. I could actually see this happening.

Depends on what “pedantic” means to you. This sad mark of our times is certainly a “me too” vehicle and is sewing the seeds of our destruction through coolifying wastefulness and generally endangering car owners, but I don’t know if that particular SUV/CUV would try to wow you with intellectual banalities.

Or as their sales-record-shattering buyers will call it “that looks like the vague concept of what will impress my neighbors.”

You missed the three movies (maybe more) that Michael Ironside loses a hand in. Seriously that dude is somehow typecast as “Supporting Character Who Loses Hand.”

Guess he gave ‘em the finger and the whole deal blew up.

Every new thing should be reliable though. That’s what new is. It’s just perverse that 15,000 trouble free miles should be considered remarkable. This isn’t 1915.

They list that figure because an extremely safety conscious company like Volvo says you can do it in their car, safely.

Since I’ve never been ‘murica enough to buy one of the worst motorcycles for sale, I’ll just relay my love of my 1982 Suzuki GS850L that I modified.

I’d give it the Chevy Blazer of bikes, but not the S-Class. BMW is the S-Class, ironically.

I’d agree about the SC300, Fiero GTs and Z3. Those are pretty, RWD, came with stickshifts and will actually appreciate with time, all of which I consider requisites for what I was talking about (tantamount to a sweet spot depreciated-out-before-the-rebound 240-260z, E30, classic sports car, etc). The rest are mostly…

This describes the rationale of about 100% of people I know who have a full size SUV. My Volvo is rated to tow something like 3,000lbs. That’s a decent sized camper or a 25’ bay boat.

I’d love to see your list of what qualifies, because there aren’t many left.

That’s an amazing quote for a universe of disposable Ferraris and ownable girlfriends.

Yeah the mayor of the next city over owned one of those stupid Hummer sequels because “hey, look at me!” He traded it in for a Yukon Hybrid pretty quickly. Apparently living in a suburb in Florida and having two college-aged kids requires you to have a seven-passenger 4WD SUV, but he just couldn’t stand the middle…

Yeah that’s what I was thinking. His entire point was like it was ripped out of the book “How to Lie With Statistics.”

What I wouldn’t give to have been born early enough to have money before the nice simple old cars skyrocketed in value instead of after. By the time I have money to collect old under-appreciated cars that bottomed out in depreciation its gonna be fucking 2013 Hyundai Genesis coupes in 2040.

Oh look now the front of the car is wrecked too.

Note to self: If I ever buy a carbureted unicorn minitruck from the 80s and the carb dies, swap in LSx.

Reminds me of the dreaded Volvo 240 blower motor. The joke is that Volvo built the entire car around the blower motor. It’s only a joke for people who don’t have to do the job.