You have never priced a large diameter wheel at a dealer, have you? I am surprised that is ALL that it was. Two expensive tires, two VERY expensive wheels. And the i3 uses rather oddball wheel and tire sizes.

Takeoffs are optional, landings are not.

Some of the best writing here in years. Please write more!

In the real world, as opposed to the highly artificial world of fuel economy testing, they usually still do.

The “Jetta” Wagon exists, albeit badged as a Golf. VW just doesn’t sell it in the US, because we Americans don’t deserve nice things, because this country is stupid. In R trim:

Five paid off cars, two paid off houses (one of which is providing significant rental income from housemates), and two paid-off rental condos that make a nice buck too. Life is good indeed.

Nobody NEEDS to buy a *new* car, ever.

Or better still, spending $50K on an EV to save $100 a month on gas when they have a perfect fine car already...

The fact that GAP insurance is *cheap* shows what a rare event a total loss accident where the person is underwater actually is. The Gnomes of Hartford KNOW.

It’s pretty easy - nobody says you need to spend the average amount of money on a car. <shrug>

Mercedes current design language is terrible, inside and out. I’ve owned a W123, a W124, and now an S212, all wagons. The W124 was perfection, though the W123 was delightfully classic and for a modernish car, the S212 isn’t terrible. But if I could buy a brand-new W124 wagon I would in a heartbeat. Even at what the…

I have always read that the correct adjustment for headrests is even with the top of your ears. And that is where the headrests in the crash videos here seem to be.

In the immortal words of Stirling Archer “I can only get so erect”. And I don’t normally like silly supercar nonsense.

A this point I would settle for about any wagon that isn’t a $120K hur-dur stupidity mobile.

The GTI.

This. I have done several VDI workstation deployments in the past couple years for exactly this. Putting heavy-duty modern GPUs into individual workstations is kind of dumb at this point, they are so capable (and so expensive) that a single user is unlike to use them to their full potential, so it makes more sense to…

The thing about the Prowler is very simple - it should have had a Hemi. That would instantly elevate it from sad to mad. And imagine a Prowler Hellcat.

Unless it was originally bought by a rental fleet. That was a thing right into the 2000s for GM cars.

I don’t like kids much. Mine would be in rusted out VW Beetles.