The correct answer is Mazda, naturally. A CX-5 will give this guy plenty of space for 4 people who may not want to contort to reach down to their seats, a fairly engaging driving experience, a premium feeling without luxury tax, and a reasonable mileage.

This is 1997 and I’m 19 y/o. I went to hitchhike the Argentine Patagonia with three friends from high school years, one guy, two girls. Leaving Esquel, the girls ignored our agreement to travel in pairs, and jumped into a Chilean truck before we could stop them. With the other guy we had to wait for hours for someone…

No, it is not cool. It’s tacky, inefficient and stupid. Next question.

Manuals.

Those wagons are an impressive example of incompetence. How to suck an astounding amount of development resources from a corporation (and tax payers) to spit out massive piles of crap that were huge outside and cramped inside, and inefficient in absolutely everything other than highway comfort.

I never cease to be amazed at the utter incompetence of US auto engineering. How in the fucking world they managed to have such obtrusive wheel arches and suspension mounts? Guys, get a page from the fucking Italians and learn to maximize space while improving performance. And no, save your fucking snarky comments…

They can only turn to one side without causing a major fuckup? So Nascar!

It’s so fucking tacky and tasteless that it looks at home at certain Mar-a-lago house.

Next on NP or ND: “Mc Laren P1, low miles, salvage title. $40,000. No low-ballers, I know what I got. Call Ernie.”

“The wheels are okay, though.”

Anything that Toyota makes today. Or Hyundai. Or mitsubishi. 

About three quarters of used cars here in El Salvador are salvage titles from the US and Mexico. It somehow works.

My take: international NGO gave them money to build a decent bridge. Dudes pocketed 90% of that and used the remains to put together that shit.

No he conocido Panamá todavía.

Toyota Agya. A subcompact for “emerging” markets.

NP. Remove those tacky lights and wooden crap in the dash (if possible), leave those wonderful Minilites on and get period correct buckets.

But for 8k you can buy and ship far more interesting and better built Italian cars, made in, you know, Italy.

I’m glad for the ultimate reason for their demise (firmly team Kosovo here), but having owned a Fiat 128 and two 127-derived Vivaces, I reckon that properly maintained these are a lot of fun to drive. Slow car fast, and all that.

Can I judge a car offer based on the seller’s language skills? Yes. Yes, I do.

It al coheres.