The law of rare VW products will likely prevail here. Some crazy VW fan with disposable cash will buy it, no matter how much crack hath the price.

If this isn’t COTD I don’t know what is.

St Joe’s alumni here. Yes. Yes we are sick of getting beaten, much less this way.

It’s a diesel JDM 4x4 weirdo van that’s in fantastic shape. This is playing tennis with the net down for me.

Came here to make a remark about how this is a Japanese Zimmer. Did not leave disappointed.

I weirdly dig it. Given my propensity to like the odd ducks like the space wagons and Mitsu Delicas, this probably shouldn’t come as a surprise.

For what it is worth, the CVT Subaru has isn’t bad. It doesn’t feel like a CVT as they programmed in “Shift Points”. We have 90k on our ‘13 outback and I forget it is a CVT quite often.

I haven’t seriously considered it, no. The transmission in those things scares the everloving hell out of me.

I would love it if Subaru made a van, but they haven’t gone that direction. The closest they have come has been the crossovers, the Kei van, and a rebadged Opel Zafira. I suppose you can count the Exiga.

I’m looking at it from a pure practicality standpoint. Interior volume and ease of passenger transport. As much as I like the CX9, the 3rd row is a pain in the butt, and the Sienna still has more interior volume. I want to stay in the Mazda family, but the van is a better value proposition. I don’t really give a crap…

The Ascent is on my short list of potential vehicles, but honestly the pricing is making me gunshy. I’m a Mazda fan and don’t really see much advantage to getting the Ascent over the CX-9, especially when the CX-9 is everything I love about my 3 just bigger.

You focused on the very last part of the post and ignored everything prior. I only agree with the fact that he found a profitable product that wqs in demand. In no way do I support his business practices or ultimately what his company became. As I said in my prior post, there was willing obfuscation of bothhis…

I think you missed the point slightly. I agree with Tucker that he saw an emerging market and he capitalized on it. I stop agreeing with him there. His business practices were far from reputable. Had he run things more transparently and not tried as hard to deliberately obfuscate the layers of his organization and the…

I didn’t go into glaring detail about the criminal acts, but I certainly didn’t dismiss it. On the surface I agree with him that he was a businessman and he marketed an in demand product. That’s about where my agreement with him ends. There was certainly willing obfuscation on his part, both in how he ran his business…

Raise gas taxes, but roll back CAFE standards. Not too hard to see where this is going.

Agree 100%. Greed is a powerful force, and ultimately that is what lead him to the more nefarious business practices.

I see both sides of the coin. On the one hand, he is correct. He found a market for his product, and it was vastly profitable. There is a need for payday loans, regardless of popular opinion.

There would be a lot less wranglers sold if they brought that over.

A Mazda 110s/Cosmo. There aren’t many in good condition floating around in the USA, but I just absolutely love the shape and the overall design of the car. I fear it is a “don’t drive your heroes” situation though.

I’ve seen this picture hundreds of times. Still funny.