My roommate is still driving the 1998 Corolla he bought new. He likes it for all of the reasons you like the Camry. He *wants* a car to be boring, because that means he knows he can get in it and it will reliably start and get him where he wants to go. He will most likely drive it til the wheels fall off, then send me…

Looks like it’s a good car in fantastic shape, especially for one from snow country. But US$22 large? No. Come down to $15-17 and we’ll talk. Even without the notorious timing chain guide issues of the S4 (something I understand well from the M117), this is still going to be a money pit the first time something breaks.

How about a nice *fwap* instead?

Sounds like a job for David Tracy!

Don’t taunt Murphy.

Which SiriusXM channel was that on? I need to start listening to it.

I added Yuve Yuve Yu to my playlist months ago, and bought their first album, The Gereg, last month. Highly recommended. The album has several more good rockers on it.

That’s not true. It gets up to 90 two days in late August.

No more so than VW air-cooled engines, which cockroaches will be fixing 20 million years from now. A Corvair-fan friend once told me that if he needed someone to work on it, he’d take it to a VW mechanic and tell them “Just treat it like a VW with two extra cylinders”...and invariably, the mechanic would be completely …

Lake Park, Minnesota. That explains an awful lot. Lake Park is up in the northwest part of the state, due east of Fargo. This smells like some guys were sitting around their fish house, three sheets to the wind on Grain Belt beer, looking for something to do to keep their winter from getting too dull.

I’d buy it. Well, at least I’d get that color and wouldn’t object to those wheels, at least.

There’s one hell of a lot to be said for tough and reliable.

Yeah, stick one of the OM642s from, say, a 2008 ML320 CDI in it (after you deal with the injector seals and clean up the carbon on the outside) in it and you’ve got something. I’d go with the pre-DEF version, just to make life simpler offroad.

The guy in charge of the HMMWV at AM General said he was proud he didn’t spend one dime on styling.

Damn. The hardtop would be the perfect go-anywhere radio truck. I’d love to get one of these and install a full DC-to-daylight ham station in it.

Damn. The diesel in my 2015 ML250 Bluetec pulls hard when you get on it, hard enough that you don’t notice it’s only 2.1 liters. I’m really disappointed the CX-5 diesel doesn’t show the same driving results. Yeah, it’s got 100 foot-pounds less torque, but it also weighs half a ton less. How could Mazda have screwed…

I had a 1992 Explorer with a manual transmission that disintegrated at 65K miles. i had it towed to a Ford dealer 70 miles down the road to get rebuilt. 4000 miles later, it disintegrated again, and Ford refused to honor their repair warranty. I refuse to give Ford any more of my money, even indirectly.

You’re dead on target. It’s also a fscking Ford product, which renders it CP at any price.

Well, that’s one way to deal with the hideous Lexus grille.

For many years, I only knew Borgward as what I thought to be a made-up word in _Bored of the Rings_. (Page 99, a narc says “Grackle borgward!” right before he’s opened form end to end.)