Thanks! If you’re ever up a little further north in MD or I brave a long haul to NC with it, you’re welcome to take it for a spin.

That’s an early 500D pictured, with the more square fuel tank on the LH side. All of the later variants have a cylindrical tank that sits in the center of the under-bonnet area (my 66 500F is pictured here), making it a lot harder to fit a rectangular suitcase.

...or before Joe Buck wrestles Dr. Oz for dead last?

Counterpoint: There is no such thing as a “structurally sound” X1/9. They rival Alfasud’s for rusting speed. These are arguably the worst Fiats ever produced.

Yuuuuup. If ground clearance allows it, all my cars get fumoto valves. Haven’t had one leak across 3 cars and 50k+ miles. If the car has a top mounted filter, it’s a zero mess oil change. 

Ergonomics and fit preference are such a personal preference/issue that it’s almost pointless to discuss. Seated height != standing height, nor are upper/lower leg lengths consistent across heights.

The RAV4 is the no-brainer choice. If you don’t care about the styling and only want reliability, fit, and AWD, you’re not going to go wrong with Toyota. Put gas in it, change the oil and tires when needed, and drive for 150k+ miles worry free.

$20 on a combination of ‘pump-n-dump’ stock games and United trying for some good ‘green’ press in light of having their clocks cleaned by Delta and SW lately.

There’s a small German company named Porsche that make an EV car. 4 doors and everything. And by all accounts and company rep, will probably be the best of them all at an AutoX or track.

I really wish they would have brought the Corolla Sport Wagon to the US instead. I abhor the CUV trend, but want an ‘appliance’ car for the wife that ticks all the boxes. The hybrid wagon available in the EU does just that. Boring Toyota reliability.

Ok fair. I don’t know the intricacies of the different charging standards. I haven’t researched it at all, since my purchase is a little ways off. 

That’s something that I’m hoping definitively changes between now and that EV purchase in ~2 yrs. It will change, I have no doubt about that, but I’m hoping for a seismic, “this is the way” change where there’s the standard and that’s it. Gasoline nozzle size settled type change.

That’s good to hear. As far as the supercharger network - that’s a valid point.

My next car will be an EV, probably within the next 2 years. Barring some galactic quality-control shift, I won’t even be cross-shopping Tesla. They absolutely broke the barrier and did wonders to get EVs more in the mainstream, but they still put out a ‘meh’ product (IMO) and basically, just don’t seem reliable…

That thing was like $11k new. That’s ~$27k in today’s dollars. Did the seller really just do that math and be like “it’s worth about half” ? I’m curious how else he might’ve arrived at that figure.

Now ... if only this would happen to every other coal-rolling assclown out there.

Dammit. You’re right. Stupid recurring investment box was checked. Apologies. I hope he didn’t pay $147K either.

So assuming MSRP (ya ya ya), a $39K car in 2003 equates to ~$56.6K today. Same $39K in an index fund in 2003 equates to ~$1.47M today. Since there’s no way anyone would pay 7 figures for that Mustang AND no one drove it to enjoy it at all during that time, this should serve as yet another reminder that buying cars as…

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