COTD

Just buy one on the local Craigslist and take him for a drive. Then sell it. Trust me: You will NOT regret it.

As somebody who got the family conversion van as his first car: Your mom made an absolutely correct judgement call, and I’m very sorry for your loss.

I was passing through Tennessee and asked the locals if there were any interesting trails to explore. They pointed me to this mountain with a huge old abandoned ranger tower on top. I drove up it in my 2000 Isuzu Rodeo and thought that was a pretty rugged and bumpy ride, but when I got to the top there was a small,…

Offorad enthusiasts will buy offroad vehicles

my dad bought me a *mint* 1987 golf GTI w/ 27,000 miles from an old lady who garaged it for her (then sadly departed) son. she just didn’t want to let it go, and my dad took it off her hands for $3,000 (!!!). i got it my junior year of HS, 2006 and drove the motherfuckin shit out of it. one day my mom took it to the…

I couldn’t imagine buying a car for somebody else as a gift or a surprise. No matter what you think you know about that person you’re going to screw it up. That’s too big of a purchase to screw up.

Growing up on a farm, we were huge loyalists to Chevrolet. Had nothing but GM products for years. That may have bitten my father in the bum.

My mom had a Porsche 944. She LOVED that car. My dad decided that, for her birthday, he would trade it in for a Saab convertible. When he told my brother, my brother laughed at him because he thought my dad was joking. He wasn’t.

...and absolutely nobody who is going to buy this thing cares one bit. It is a whole lot safer than the old one, and that is all that matters on that front.

I feel like the only reason Baldwin still does the Trump impression is because he knows it pisses Donald off, otherwise, it seems like he’d love to be done with it.

I know that in Japan where they sell these as Kei (660cc) crash testing is entirely voluntary by the manufacturer. There are no Japanese Govt. rules, but obviously it makes sense to not kill your customers and safety is a big sell point these days, although I do think there is point where it can get a bit overboard.…

Yeah, it’s definitely a good thing Ford doesn’t sell the 2018 Escape in the US. Oh, wait.

When asked if Chevy should succeed him on The Tonight Show, Johnny Carson famously opined “Chevy Chase couldn’t ad-lib a fart after a baked-bean dinner.”

I never once thought about the safety rating of my 2013 Jimny before buying it, and didn’t look at the safety rating of my 2016 Isuzu D-max either. I don’t buy cars to crash them, and an accident is going to suck either way.

The youthful audience the Suzuki Jimny has been designed for deserve better in terms of passive and active safety.

I’d be the last guy to defend Chevy Chase because the guy is clearly an asshole, but his assessment of today’s SNL isn’t too far off.

Fair enough. I’d still have one in my driveway the day before yesterday if I could. As fun as, and way, waaay safer than the never-been-in-an-accident 200k mile ’03 SWB Tracker (with an XL-7 V6, but that’s another story..) that it would be parked next to.

I. Don’t. Care. Crash standards are meant to keep safety-tightwads employed.  Sell me the effing Jimny; I understand what personal responsibility is.

Hey, you passed.  Gratz!