Hyundai is the master of this - that much vaunted 10/100K warranty is barely worth the paper it is printed on.

I though buying a Hummer involved finding a girl (or boy, I don't judge) on one of the seedier street corners in Philly?

There is just some special magic in that car. So much more than the sum of the parts.

Well done, my Brother! Don't ever sell it, you will regret it for decades!

With only 115hp you can't lift ever...

A band saw would be PERFECT!

Back in college I could fit the entire removable contents of my dorm room into the trunk of my '84 Jetta GLI, except the fridge had to go in the back seat.

You really just need a woodchipper. Frozen does make it less messy.

More likely he will act surprised that it is not in the garage with all the other cars. I doubt Dallas has NYC levels of CCTV coverage either.

I haven't owned one, but I have driven the built in Poland version a number of times while I was in Hungary. I thought it was a lot of fun. You just beat the piss out of it all the time and it begs for more in that way only tiny Italian cars do.

One of my best friends is a Hungarian guy who works for IBM and lives here in the states with his wife and kids - we went to college together. Back in Hungary, his brother part-owned a workshop. About ten years ago he bought a totaled '01 911 convertible (it had rear-ended something) from one of the online salvage…

Nope - because they were complete and utter crap. The Euro vans are sooo much better for work stuff, and minivans are better for carrying people.

There are certain aspects of a car you should not have to think about. What if a car maker decided to go back to the very old setup of having the throttle pedal in between the brake and the clutch? Lots of sports cars were that way in the '30s because it makes heel and toe downshifting easier.

Nearly all major accidents are a chain of factors leading up to what happened. She stopped in the wrong place, her fault. But then in a panic she possible did the wrong thing with a poorly designed and oddball automatic transmission gear selector, and made the situation much, much worse. As I mentioned, just from…

How did she not know what she was doing? Her foot slipped off the brake onto the gas! When the car accelerated, because she thought her foot was on the brake, so she pushed harder, which is the natural thing to do. Lots of research on this - it's what people do in this situation if you are less skilled than a trained…

Don't be a tool. She did not do it intentionally, most likely. She did it unthinkingly. She did not set out from where she was going thinking "today I am going to stop my car on some train tracks". Again, we who live in glass houses should not throw stones. I've done plenty of stupid, unthinking shit behind the wheel…

She did not do it any more intentionally than my Mom driving my Dad's new car into the pool.

More like Europe showing everyone else how it is done in terms of engine tech back in the day. The Japanese resisted fuel injection and other modern engine management innovations just as long as the Americans did. Longer actually, the last carb'd cars and trucks sold in the US were all Japanese.

I've done just this several times in automatic BMWs. it really is muscle memory - you push the button and pull back, and expect to be in reverse - nope, in a BMW you are in DRIVE at that point. I can totally see this being a major issue in a stressful situation. And as was well shown with the Audi sudden acceleration…

If you structure the stock offerings correctly, you can have a situation where all the publically owned stock is non-voting. In theory, non-voting stock is worth less, because it confers ownership with no control, but people buy it anyway, because it typically pays a higher dividend.