Super high. You should’ve seen some of the Bronco prices...

‘67 Ford Bronco

“Can you give me a chance?” scream-whines the man who has not yet let a woman respond to his prior comments. What an asshole. 

“Just throw a small block Chevy motor in it!” is a refrain I hear all too often from uninspired gearheads. Yes, I said it: uninspired. Boring.

You are correct. The old Chevy SBC is not the best answer.

Better choices in what way? Nothing is cheaper with such a huge after market that SBCs have

Get ready, New England, Minnesota and the PacNW, this thing is going to just dominate your left lanes at 58mph, max, for the next decade.

‘Barn find’ is the colloquial term for finding a rare/old/cool car that has been stored inside. Whether it be a barn or a garage or an attached garage or a detached garage or an out-building or a sugar shack or a shed or a chicken coop or a cow-shed or a greenhouse or a root cellar or a silo or a stable or a well…

So someone finally asks for the most jalop car yet, a manual wagon. Talk about a slow fat pitch right over the middle of the plate, ready to be crushed out the of park and someone recommends an automatic. Never fail to screw this up.

How about a Ford Flex? You can find a used AWD Ecoboost version in your price range. You give up the manual, but you get all the space you could ever need and you can’t convince me that these aren’t the true spiritual successors to the woody surf wagons.

You can get a 2018 Volvo V60 for just about that much money.  Or find a leftover 2017 for easily under 30k.   You won’t have a manual, but you also won’t have to drive fucking Volkswagen, so it’s a huge win.

Since F31 wagon has already been suggested, how about the new Buick Regal Tourx? https://jalopnik.com/the-2018-buick-regal-tourx-is-a-return-of-the-classic-a-1823422262

The more you mod it, the less it’s worth. Why do Subaru owners not understand this?

Sounds like this buyer places a premium on avoiding “the Asians” and instead going with the Europeans.  

So you would rather have an inferior car with horrible reliability just to get a useless trip to Europe. Why not enjoy your car in America where the the streets are huge and traffic is less congested?

People said the exact same thing about Lexus. It now outsells Audi and matches BMW at the same price points.

BMW, as well as the other Germans, are notoriously bad when it comes to depreciation.

This is a commonly used argument, but the very reason Hyundai created the Genesis brand is to combat depreciation. Also, the difference is unlikely to make up for the price gap between brands.

I thought the “Air BnB” comment was far better.

See, Toyota wanted to abort but BMW wanted to keep it and you know how the saying goes “My Factory, my choice”