Pickup trucks have profit margins to the manufacturers that would make king Midas blush. The dealership makes relatively nothing on them in comparison. Every penny of that $10K is coming from GM, and they are still probably making $10K+ on the truck. The dealership is probably making $5K, so there is still some room…

This is mostly just hilariously wrong information. Have you not bought a car since 1975 or something?

That is a really ambitious price for a mid-70s 2CV, and a pretty typical price for a mid-70s Silver Shadow.

Without them, we would have killed 10's or 100's of thousands of civilians, because we still would have been blowing things up.

Flew them once, BWI-PWM one-way after my travel plans changed. Was cheaper to book a business class ticket with them than to change my US Airways ticket. Perfectly OK experience.

I am no way a fan of Hondas as a general rule, but I would not kick this out of the garage! It's just so perfect.

It would be *much* cheaper to just buy a good one. This car will just end up as a disassembled project in someone else's garage.

The best red car of all time was either the '84 Jetta GLI that I had for a decade, or the '74 Triumph Spitfire that I have owned for almost 20 years. Though really, I kind of hate red as a color for cars and would never choose red on a car I was buying new. Used I take what I can get!

Not as much as you would think. The US cars had more low-end torque and shorter gearing. No Autohahns here, and still 55mph speed limits across the whole country back then.

It is a Rabbit GTI. However, it was made in PA, and there was only ~10hp difference between the US and European engines. Different cam, different manifold and downpipe. Suspension is the same either way, in no way jacked up for the US. Regular Rabbits did have much softer suspensions than their European brethren.…

24mpg driven very gently. Used in anger, more like 15... Driven gently, my current '11 328i wagon will do 33! And it will blow an e28 535i's doors off. And the 328i did 25mpg at 105mph average between Stuttgart and Berlin while I had it in Europe. 25 years progress, the 525i would have needed its own oil well for…

Some places in the US insurance can be nearly that expensive for kids. Luckily, not where I live. It's good to be firmly middle-aged with a clean record, I pay $1200/yr total for a '74 Triumph Spitfire, '01 Range Rover HSE 4.6, '11 328i Touring, and '13 Fiat Abarth. And oddly, of that lot the Rover is by far the most…

The "e" (for eta) engines were an interesting concept. The idea was to minimize internal friction, so they had a super lightweight valve train, smaller bearings, and low tension piston rings. Because the valve train would not allow high revs, they were tuned for maximum low-end torque, and had taller gearing to go…

Which is exactly how it should be. Kids are dumb, keep them in sloooow cars for a few years. I drove an '84 Jetta GLI with all of 90hp through college, and I am amazed I lived to be here typing this. Kids these days have multiples of that much horsepower, and are every bit as dumb as I was. Only saving grace is cars…

You mean the old naming standard where most e21 320i's had 1.8L engines, e30 325e's and e28 528e's both had the same 2.7l engine, and the 535i had a 3.4l engine? And numerous other mis-matches between badge and displacement?

So order one. BMW is perfectly happy to build a car just for you, and there is never any discrimination in terms of incentives and financing. Delivery time is typically 6-8 weeks to the East Coast, a few weeks more to the West Coast. Better yet, order one and pick it up in Munich, save 8% off the top. You don't even…

And old Subarus.

LOL - so true - these are about as British as the Queen, which is to say a bloody German!

I have a Range Rover and a Triumph Spitfire, that is enough British in the garage for any single human being. I'd rather have a Phaeton, even cheaper, way more anonymous.

Yes, load factors are that high in the US. I fly multiple times per week, and it is rare to have more than 4-5 empty seats on a 100 seat airplane, and much of the time, they are asking for volunteers to give up their seats as the flight is overbooked. Airlines only make money when the airplanes are full, so they…