There are exceptions. I’ve had a 2011 Touareg (gas) as my DD for six years now, and it’s been remarkably trouble-free.

surprise. listed it on CL for $4000. first guy who saw it, bought it. didn’t even drive it first. To be fair, it was a cream puff (< 22k miles, 2007).

When my wife stopped driving, I left the keys to her PT Cruiser in the car, in the driveway, for about four years, in the hopes it would be stolen. I eventually gave up and sold the damn thing. 

Tampon X-Rays

$312,430. Really liking the Lizard Green, although I wish the two tone cognac/black interior was available with it.

What if someone left their baby in the car? Think of the heartbreak!

You oughta be ashamed of yourself for subjecting your kid to transport in a shitbox deathtrap. Although it’s a legal form of corporal punishment, I suppose.

This car is a unicorn anyway. There isn’t a single 2017 or later F-Type S with a manual transmission for sale in the USA, if AutoTrader can be believed.

Pretty rude of those Aussies to make everyone stay up until midnight, or set the alarm for 3am, to watch this highly anticipated match. Don’t they ever sleep down there?

EZ fix!

Sounds more like Borderline Celebrity Disorder.

There’s a $500 2003 VW Passat W8 somewhere around Portland that “runs and drives, but needs work other places”, a statement that probably applies to 80% of the 2003 VWs in America. Still: a W8! Just look at those pipes!

the “Unfulfilled” song is the greatest Elvis Costello parody ever. Too bad they couldn’t get him to sing it. Must have shot their wad on the “16 Tons” rights.

I’m old enough to have had a whole bunch of awesome favorite cars when I was a “kid” (I was 13 in 1970), but I saw the Dino 246 Gt in a Road & Track road test and that pretty much ruined me for any other car. (List price was $13k, and I remember thinking that someday I’d be able to afford one. Ha!)

My dream trip was one that I already made — from Oregon’s Willamette Valley to Dubuque, Iowa, and back, in a 2002 Mercedes-Benz SL 500. It was a circular route of 5,914 miles, through 11 states. designed to (a) see as many national parks/monuments as possible and (2) stay off freeways whenever possible. It took 18 days…

I got a ticket during the second gas crisis (1979) for going 58 in a 55.

Not just that. Banks and particularly credit unions (I’ve worked for both) won’t typically let an individual OD anywhere near that level before they close the account.

Mom said I was conceived in the back of a 55 Bel-Air, after Dad had a particularly good night bowling.

This is fun, but the best reason to go to the Pete is for the Ferraris. All the Ferraris.

Yep. Just wish it had been a better color.