I’ll be honest, that’s about $100,000 less than I thought it was going to be, but to folks in the UK I suppose Defenders are as common as old Toyota 4Runners are over here.

This was my thought - it just looks like BA decided to update their livery.

Don’t motors at the wheels mean high unsprung weight?

I guess I don’t understand why selling 3 of these vehicles and buying a better daily isn’t on the table. I know you got burned by the xc70, but try a more reliable car next time. Don’t hate every corolla or hardbody pickup just because you bought one of the most likely to fail used cars on the road and it failed on…

Volvo people have an irrational love for Volvos.  They say they are the best-built car anywhere, but people I know with old Volvos seem to be repairing them all the time.  No more Volvos for you until you have the budget to repair and maintain them properly.

Point taken, but really, I’m hoping you didn’t buy an XC70 expecting it to be reliable in any sense. I even looked at those a few years back, but the horror stories on the forums and crap reliability statistics made me avoid it entirely.

If your initial response is, “buy an old Honda,” I’ll just mention that I’ve proven that this isn’t necessarily a good idea,

I have zero desire for any car where I have to fuck around with putting physical keys in locks. I have my Luddite tendencies when it comes to cars, but keys are very much not one of them. I have touch code locks on my HOUSES too. Physical keys are relics of bygone days.

“That’s it. No more manuals in our cars. It’s not worth the headache.” - Ford, in the near future

The 4-Series grill isn’t “borderline ugly”. It is god damn effing hideous.

Domagoj Dukec

It’s ugly

Yeah I’m with you. While I found this one interesting for the archimedes screw factor and how the oil/transmission fluid actually got from the transfer case to the speedo, the fact that someone continued to drive a car WITH OIL LEAKING DIRECTLY ONTO THE BRAKE PEDAL is so totally, utterly irresponsible.

Slideshow? uhh... I see the usual scroll to the bottom.

If you’d suggest that it looks like a Macan, I’d be with you.

So, two stories about why I switched to a medium weight car with excellent crash test ratings from my old idea of tiny car = hard to hit = safe.

I’ll take one like this, please:

This would be a 5th Amendment thing. Specifically the takings clause:

Another day, another “percentage of net worth” article about the ultra wealthy (not picking on Mike, it’s common across the mass media).

this is kind of why i’d wish audi would bring over the 440 HP RS4 Avant and not the 600 HP RS6.