My Aunt had a Fuego that I remember from growing up. It was, well it was a car. 

VW B5.5 Passat W8 5spd Wagon street parked in Des Moines, Iowa. 1 of 350? in the US, regardless the most unicorn car I’ve come across and certainly the most pedestrian.

Italy, 2008. A part of a group of 3 couples we rented a flat about 3 blocks away from the Colosseum. Had a great time until about 2 days before we were to leave and we all started to get the flu. Thankfully Italian pharmacists can not only diagnose but prescribe so we got the good stuff. We wrapped up the vacation…

Yes but there is prevailing market ‘realistic pricing’ and Harley ‘realistic pricing’. 

First how in the hell did HD miss out on Ewan and Charlie as the promoters, or is it possible that HD is actually going to make a PanAm LiveWire? Second it doesn’t matter how cool this is or if it’s the most amazing ADV bike ever made, if it’s not priced realistically it’s DOA. 

Villenuve, Zanardi and Montoya are easily my top 3 favorite 500 drivers, each has done something special at the brickyard and for better or worse used Indy as a stepping stone to F1. I can’t wait to see JPM back for another shot. Might have to find tickets... 

C6 Z06, I did computer work for a small accountant and he knew I liked cars so one day while doing some work he tosses me the keys and says have fun. After confirming that he wasn’t high or otherwise incapacitated I head outside and slink into the driver’s seat.

I just returned from Trumpistan last Thursday after driving my retired parents to their condo in Delray Beach (20min from Mar-a-Lago). First being in such close proximity to Mecc... err El Presidente’s compound there is apparently an anti-COVID ray deployed as damn near everyone is maskless there. Second I was happy I…

Sometimes they aren’t feigning...

“but if you’ve ever tried to wrangle kids in a dark car, a neat little light would just be one of those things that makes life easier”

If your going to deep dive on something I’d love to hear more on the unicorn that is the B5.5 W8 and it’s variations. While potentially super niche what I think makes it interesting is that to the non-enthusiast it’s not a ‘unique’ car at all but to the right person seeing that W8 takes the average sedan/wagon into…

I too have seen a manual W8 B5.5 wagon, it was sliding into basket case territory but if there would have been a For Sale sign in the window I would have done stupid things to buy it. 

I’d have to say the months the two RT-1's spent on Long Way Up have more than proven Rivian’s off road prowess. They got probably one of the best beta tests they could have possibly asked for. Also given production schedules involved this all happened a year ago now so Rivian’s been able to incorporate all that data…

Literally just did this for my parents and it was down to a ‘15 AWD Highlander w/ 40K mi and a ‘19 FWD Ford Flex also with 40K mi and 20K mi left on the powertrain warranty.

I get that Ewan and Charlie had the entirety of Harley behind them for Long Way Up but I’ll have to admit the LiveWire they prepared for that is pretty amazing. Would it have worked on Long Way Round? No, hell the GS’es were bubble-gummed and duct-taped by the time they finished. Is where HD is going pretty cool? Yes.…

This is eerily weird timing, you don’t live in Iowa do you? My kid was being trained just the other day on their route to become a mail carrier and they were driving the Metris (which they enjoy far more than the LLV).

Whelp, the value of my SLK350 6spd just went up. 

No, not cheap to repair, my Dad just picked up a 2005 non Type-R and the alternator was $600. 

I think you mean to say that this car will be used for literally nothing. As in I doubt that it will ever see the high side of 1000mi in it’s entire existence. It’s a ‘wipe-it-with-a-diaper’ sits in a hermetically sealed glass case kinda car.

Obviously the BWM designer drives a Jeep JK with an AnrgyGrill™ and liked it so much he had to copy it onto the new M3/4.