Also in IT - consultant/field engineer doing SAN storage, backup, and virtualization projects all over the country. A ton of it is the field engineer work - this weekend and next weekend I am flying around the country adding disk shelves and doing firmware updates on SAN systems. Tomorrow is typical, I'm based in…

My e91 has been near perfect since new. No mechanical issues, one bad seat relay, one leaky headlight washer, a couple door seals replaced due to splitting where I rub against them getting in and out. Of course, it is a MUCH less complex car than an e61, having no turbos, no automatic, no AWD system, no iDrive, among…

I'm right up there with you, been doing this for 20 years. First NWA\Continental, then Delta, now US. All short hop domestic. The magic is still there for me.

The E-Jets are far and away my favorite planes flying in the US today. Was Republic operating your flight? They fly the 170 and 175 for US Airways Express and United too, and mainline US Airways flies the 190. I fly on them for better than 1/2 my flights these days.

The Accord Wagon, sold here as an Acura TSX, is no longer sold here, and was even rarer than the BMW wagon. And autobox with wheezy 4cyl only, blech. The Toyota Venza is really more of a CUV sort of thing. And duller than dishwater.

I love to fly. Even in coach, but I much prefer first, I am only human. 139 flights last year, over 30 so far this year already. Four this weekend, five next weekend already booked. Almost entirely work travel.

And again, not in America. We get this, the BMW 328i/d, and the Mercedes E-class for proper wagons, and that is IT at the moment. This is the only one available with a stickshift.

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.