Something about this feels like a bunch of mid-2000's pop-ups, but I'm excited to find out what I won once I enter my social security number. 

Looks like a Mercedes MB100, something that was developed from a DKW, first built by Mercedes's Spanish wing, and eventually ended up as a Ssangyong.

My absolute priority is to find my wife a car - we finally have extra parking, and if she hasn’t acquiesced to driving manual in the past 8 years, it’s never going to happen. Little home projects mean we don’t want to tie up budget on something new, and as my car is reliable, we’ve got fine transit access, and both…

Kubrick filmed the moon landing, but was such a perfectionist he had it shot on location.

I'm assuming there's no way the diesel would make it past increasing emissions regulations (as I'm sure you know, we didn't get the diesel in Canada past the first gen either), although I'm shocked no variant with a back seat got imported.

I think there's a bit more than that - I've lived in a few prewar neighbourhoods in Toronto that had relatively limited parking, but still needed a car for different reasons, and having the smallest thing feasible is a huge boon for fitting into irregular spaces. For that matter, in my last condo, a couple that parked…

The smart’s biggest issue will always and forever be the American trouble at differentiating between an “economy car” and a “city car.” The smart wasn’t particularly cheap, fuel economy was good but not stupendous (it genuinely had better city fuel economy than any non-diesel or hybrid on the market at the time, but…

And yet it still stops a little quicker than a lighter Tiguan with 4-wheel discs. I’m sure the regen helps, and might help compensate for drums not doing as well with repeated braking.

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I just want sliding doors on something that’s not the side of a modestly priced condo.

I once installed a set of rear lowering springs in a subway parking lot. Admittedly, it’s pretty easy on an econocar with a solid rear axle (get it jacked up, undo a couple bolts and that’s about it). I would have got the fronts done as well, but needed a set of offset wrenches to get the top nut off the front struts,…

Counterpoint - you ever managed to get an old person’s license revoked? I have, after complaining to the police after one nearly swerved right into me for no reason. Not everyone can, or should drive.

I’m not the only one who’s sort of annoyed with the general narrative that the Koreans are gunning for the Japanese the same way the Japanese dominated the American brands in the 80's, right? I get the sense that one gets perpetuated out of a desire to be in the know, to forsee a coming trend by sheer force of will,…

Bring the wife and kids?

3 rows? Reliable and luxurious? You’d clearly be best served by a Buick Roadmaster Estate*.

caddyak’s example further up is a perfect illustration, that a $2k repair on an old Land Cruiser is seen as reasonable, but a $2k repair on an old Grand Cherokee would often put it in the wreckers, even if the 4.0 is known for reliability as well.

If this survey was from 30 or 40 years ago, I'd be more likely to expect to see MB on it. I don't think lease buyers care much about longevity, and plenty of off-lease buyers fail to account that even though they got the car half-off, maintenance isn't half-off as well.

Heh, to the Phaeton point, I feel like total running costs to reach that high mileage point would provide useful nuance to this sort of survey (along with maybe total unplanned repairs and total planned major repairs, or something like that).

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