And if you don’t mind the occasional catastrophic repair bill: lots of fast Audis.

My aunt had a GS300 that my uncle found for her to run around in when she first moved to California. Paint was burnt out, and had the infamous problem with that era of Lexus where they used ATF for the power steering system, and either her or the previous owner had mistakenly used power steering fluid, which ruins the…

CTS-V wagon is a pretty good answer. You’d have to replace the shitty infotainment system with something more modern. 

I have never driven a Rolls or Bentley, but I can’t imagine those are infinitely better ride than the Maybach.

Probably depends on your build. Long legs or long torso, narrow and skinny or broad-shouldered and built like a linebacker. I’m only 6', but I have very broad shoulders and a bulky build, so a lot of cars are too narrow for me, aside from either having too little headroom or too little leg room. 

Agreed. We gotta break this down into categories, because NO car is perfect for everything. Everything is compromised in some way. 

The nicest thing I can say about this is that whoever did the work REALLY took their time. The panel gaps are very consistent. 

I was in Guadalajara a few weeks ago, and the number of small cars was refreshing, and there’s SO much choice. Of course we saw the usual suspects like the Fiesta, VW Polo, Kia Rio, etc. But a lot of nice Renault/Dacias, Peugeots, and even some Indian cars we were really impressed by. My favorite was the Toyota Avanza…

I’m so glad my wife shares my taste in cars. We both prefer sedans because we prioritize handling. We’ll be getting a used Tahoe for when we need the space for family weekend trips, but we don’t like driving big lumbering vehicles on the daily.

Most of their non-truck offerings are globalized already anyway. If they wanted to bring back the Focus, the Escape, Maverick, and Bronco Sport already use that platform, so that’s most of the work done. We never got the current gen Fiesta, so they’d need to update the factories for that, and the Fusion/Mondeo stopped…

Before Ford killed all their regular cars, this is basically what they were doing. The Focus, Fiesta, and Fusion were all the same globally. We still get SOME of that here. The Ford Kuga is the same as the Escape in the US, and since they share the same platform as the Bronco Sport, Maverick, and Focus, most of the…

I didn’t expect mine to, but it did just that. I partially blame the pandemic price bubble, which hasn’t QUITE gone down for used cars. Bought a 2018 Mazda 6 Signature in 2020 for about $27k. I owe about $7k and the private party sale price on KBB is about $18k. I only have 57k miles on it, but that sounds a tad high…

If I were GIFTED a Tesla, I’d sell it and buy a Hyundai. 

With all the bugs and technical fuckups, I’d say Ubisoft, not EA. Not NEARLY enough microtransactions for an EA product.

because people in the US will not be able to get over their association of gas stations/convenience stores and bad food, and won’t want to buy it.

For some inexplicable reason, they have some of the Japanese snacks like onigiri in Guadalajara’s 7-11s. I’ve not had the guts to try them the last couple of times I went. Their refrigeration practices are... ah... not the best. 

We’re halfway through summer already

I used to watch Hoonigan very regularly. After they got bought out by Wheel Pros in 2021, it just sucked the whole life out of the company. A fair number of people were attributing it to Ken Block’s death, but it happened quite a while before that. The separate build channels steadily stopped uploading, projects…

I’m a big dude as well. 6', 280, and broad. Our 2018 6 has the heated and ventilated seats, which take a LOT more space than you would think. We have a 2015 6 as well with manual cloth seats, and it makes a pretty big difference. My wife and I both sit with the seats at the lowest settings, and you sit a good 2-3…

My wife and I have 2 Mazda 6's. A 2015 and a 2018. We got our first one back in 2016 because we wanted something stylish and practical with good handling. We found a 1 year old Mazda 6 with 13k miles on it for about $15k. It came time to replace our aging 2010 Ford Fusion V6 that had 220k mile on it. It was during the…