I contributed to the VW August sales with the purchase of a 2019 GTI.  The VW dealers seem much more willing to make a deal than others, and they actually stock vehicles with manual transmissions.

If Jeep expects me to spend 40-50 large on a vehicle, it better damn well have an interior representative of that price segment. The Wrangler does not. There is no reason for me to buy a Wrangler over a Grand Cherokee or a Gladiator over a Ram.

Mazota.

You can get the Jetta GLI or the GTI for under $25K brand new, and those still come with a 6 year warranty and the holy grail manual transmission.

Not really. There are plenty of LS engines that consume oil like a motherfucker and they don’t really exhibit any premature failures outside of the owner letting the motor run dry.

I think it looks fine, but I also prefer understated vehicles since they tend to age a lot better than those that employ all of the hot design trends of the time.

A friend in high school bought one brand new in 2004. It was the coolest car in the group, so it is what we took to prom and down to senior week. I think the majority of my 2004 summer was spent riding around in that thing. Due to the Mazdaspeed wing he put on the back, we joked that it was the Batmobile, and even had…

Setting my overall Scroogeness aside, and substituting the NB for the NA, I would go for the ND.  It is a great car and the extra horsepower is really noticed when you want to accelerate.  I think Mazda really hit it out of the park with the ND.

No, it isn’t fucking solved because:

10 years ago, we were right in the middle of a recession.

So the dealer found an idiot with deep pockets and/or a willingness to take out a 10 year loan.

If I were to buy a truck today, it would be a Frontier. It’s affordable, reliable, and can be bought with a V6, 4WD, and a manual.

In another article I read, the dealers were also bitching up a storm because their finance departments couldn’t peddle their extended warranties as easily.

Working in building management, I had to deal with one contractor who felt that the company owed him a plug for charging his car. He took it upon himself to block the loading dock and run an extension cord to an outlet. We told him that charging wasn’t allowed and to never do it again. He put up a fight saying that…

I was getting insurance quotes for potential replacement vehicles, and was rather surprised at the jumps in price over what I’m currently paying. Every single time I questioned the jump, it was the same rhetoric of, “All this new driver assistance technology makes the vehicle more expensive to repair.” So, companies…

If some rich couple doesn’t get His & Hers C8s with the custom VINs PEN15 and V4GN4, I’ll be disappointed.

Let’s be honest: they’re mostly pissed because they aren’t going to have as much real estate for underhood murals.

17s are the new 15s since most 15s won’t even fit over modern brakes.  Hell, even 17s won’t fit over some brakes. The sad thing is that, these days, if you are looking for a 15" tire that is outside of the economy class, you’re stuck with race tires and 40 year-old radial designs. It automatically dictates stepping up…

The gimmick is when a dealer advertises a car as certified, but it is only the dealer’s own bullshit certification.  They try to vaguely label it as certified so that the average buyer doesn’t realize it isn’t a factory certification and, as such, doesn’t come with any of the factory extended warranties.

See, the original discussion was about the Kia Stinger having a manual transmission. It doesn’t. The G70 being the upscale brethren of the Stinger doesn’t make it a fucking Stinger.