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Find the original wheels, which were a design near-masterpiece and it’s a VERY nice price. These are rare, rare, rare especially with both hatches. Cool design, gutsy options, a solid drivetrain. Nice Price or... GOOD BUY.

Great to update the name. We are the only species that can use language to affect feelings, meanings and it’s very cool to use it to the best advancage. Nice choice.

It’s a beautiful model and maybe one of MB’s most refined, least gauche designs. Yet this example ain’t the one. I’ve looked for them and this is definitely not a low price especially for one with questionable wheels and funked up grille, tinted glass. Goodbye.

People blab on and on about Audi’s interiors. I sat in an E-Tron and thought... Daewoo, 1990? It was VERY underwhelming for all the talk. I just don’t get it. Below the belt line it looks like an early Forester on prednezone, the grille looks like a grate that goes across the sewer with all that blanked out “mesh”

Three tips to designing cars people will want in 10 years:

I think it was the most Lemon-Lawed vehicle ever. Don’t fact check me but it was largely hated for reliability.

Sienna AWD. Period. Tough as bolts, shockingly fun to drive, holds WAY more than a Tahoe/Yukon/4Runner and even more than ditzy little 30' long pickup and coulndn’t be more reliable.

I still have a shoebox of cassettes in case I ever find my mint, orange, big sunroof LeCar, so I can play Bananarama, The Thompson Twins and Pat Benatar in originality. I’ll gladly loan them to the buyer should they need some serious sounds.

Kia Niro is sooo smart, as others have stated. Mazda CX-9 is supposedly brilliant but here’s a curveball... a pre-2018 Volvo V60 T5 FWD has amazing safety, eco cred if you know (It has an eco setting which nets about 33 mpg in most flat driving), wonderfully comfortable seats, great warranty (“certified”), loaners for

The no-spare-tire thing is a deal killer for me, as well.

In the micro world of maxi vans, I don’t really want a Ram Promaster (I’ve got a Nissan NV2500 High Roof) but if I had one, I’d definitely want to “convert” it to a FIAT Ducato or Peugeot Boxer. Why? Because “Ram” is just seems a little desperate for a machismo that I don’t care about.

It is fascinating how utterly desperate he is for approval... from even the people he would be most disgusted by. Carry on, foolish president. 

Keeping it clear: NO. I won’t “subscribe” to this method. I pay for what I have and that is a simple transaction. But this will shoot BMW and others in the foot later too. As others have said, it will depreciate the value of these cars used. Don’t most car dealerships make the bulk of their money on used cars? And if

...because, the answer is always, “MIATA ... towing a trailer with an inflatable orange baby-president full of hot air.” (PS- that float is FANTASTIC!)

I’d order it with a new front end that didn’t have $7..99 worth of black plastic, fake mesh crap all over it. Audi needs to get over this cheapening obsession. But damn do I love a fast wagon. Just not one that looks as if it rearended a restaurant-supply floormat.

I am VERY glad for Jalopnik to be an ally to the LGBTQ world. I don’t take one iota of that support for granted. Thank you. A long time ago, I told a strong, fierce straight woman who worked in the world of car advertising, that I wanted to be a car designer or at least a stylist for car shoots. She said, “buddy. you

Super video, which is about a visual subject matter, thus valuable in video form. A list is nice but this guy knows his stuff so it’s quite generous of him to give his wisdom/secrets to us in this well produced vid.

I grew up in a formerly hippie/tree-hugger, California town that was turning towards yuppie style. Datsuns, air-cooled VWs and Renaults were getting replaced by BMWs, Volvos, Honda Accords and diesel Mercedes. American cars were SUPER rare. Probably only the police and some peeps in the retirement home had domestic

I love all this label mind-bending but as a “wheel guy” all my life, I have to say, seeing a brand swap of wheels always gives me the heebeyjeebeys. Like MB Bundts on a 3-series or Pinto hubcaps on a Datsun 510, BMW bottlecaps on an old A4, even C-Class wheels on an E-Class wagon... nooooooo thanks.

A few quick points about trucks in general: