Well, I can tell you at least 3 were daily driven. And if they were fakes, they were ones that people spent enough on to get the body right as well.

I was recently browsing the site of a VW dealer and was totally shocked. A new, well equipped Golf R can be had for 48k. Not cheap, but for an awd hot hatch it’s pretty crazy considering what a Civic Type-R/Integra Type-S costs. Similarly, a well equipped GTI can be had around $36k. The Autobahn Jetta GLI can be had…

If by “race” you are referring to white folks, then yes. Because the trio of SUV drivers and most of the Charger/Challenger crowd were white.

I spent about a decade commuting at least 120 miles per day. While there may have been some confirmation bias, the cars that were always driving like total jerks were modern Mopar monsters. Sure, BMWs drove fast, Priuses drove slow, but the guy in the Challenger, Charger, or even the 300c was the one riding bumpers,…

Touché, but still, I would say even your qualifier of “most” is inaccurate. There’s 15 on the list and I would say that Rolling Coal, Lift Kits, LED Headlights, Swangas, Wheel Spacers, Tinted lights, Carolina Squat, and Tinted Windshields can cause harm. Okay...barely not “most”

You might want to look up the definition of “harmless”

I don’t think $ value can be a correlation with reliability. I have bought $70k vehicles that had issue after issue (F-250) and $10k vehicles with issues (A3). I’ve also bought an $8k car that was supposed to be a nightmare that never had a hiccup (JCW Clubman). When I met my wife, she was driving a $3k Honda Civic…

As someone with a stock-height Sierra, I can tell you that I can get over, under, and through most any situation with the combination of driving skill, a chainsaw, and a good winch. With the exception of some very specific off-road usecases, no one needs 6" of lift.

Heck, I even had a long-travel Tacoma with Total…

I can appreciate anyone who has poured some amount of passion into their vehicle, even if that vehicle holds no appeal for me personally. Lowrider? Heck yeah. Old British Roadster? Godspeed. Restomod pony car? Have at it. JDM tuner car? Yes please.

But if you roll up in a bro-dozer with 6+ inches of lift, stretched…

Wheel spacers, especially the huge ones that bros put on lifted trucks. I’ve seen too many trucks broken down on the side of the road with a missing wheel. That in itself is dangerous of course, but the wheel that inevitably went flying could 100% kill someone

I’m really impressed by the Volvo S60, especially in some of the understated-yet-nice colors they offer. I’ve never owned a Volvo and don’t consider myself a huge fan, but something about the current design language always makes me pause and think “dang...that’s a clean looking car”

And then dealers do a markup anyway. I find myself likely not as the target consumer. I’m not a nostalgic boomer nor am I a Gen Z influencer. I’m a 37 year old who needs a reasonable vehicle to haul my kids around in, but who appreciates the original (I bought a ‘68 on a whim when I needed a vehicle to go from my…

If you’re buying an old bus for long haul trips, you’re buying the wrong car. If you’re buying an old bus for cruising around town, enjoying car shows/meets with your family, carrying stuff to (local) adventures, and working on a relatively easy to manage vehicle, then I would argue there isn’t much out there that can…

A minivan with wannabe cool looks. I have a 1968 Bus and really wanted a practical, reliable, modern sibling in the driveway. Guess I’ll have to keep waiting.

Before pricing was even finalized, but after some dealers got their allocation, they were charging a minimum $5k markup...sight and pricing unseen. And this was from a dealer with whom I had a business relationship...he wouldn’t let me reserve one at MSRP.
After the CEO stated he didn’t want markups on these I thought…

I used this logic, on a smaller scale, to convince my wife to let me by a 2011 WRX. “Sure, we could leave the $5k in savings or we could put it towards this car, which will at least retain it’s value.” I left out the maintenance costs and all that of course.
If I had this amount of money (even after trying to put much…

Looking at the number of people sitting idling at any given time as I ride my bike through city traffic, it seems a worthwhile way of limiting emissions if not saving fuel.
I will say, I didn’t know it was a thing until visiting the UK for the first time in 2013. I had a little rental Seat with a manual transmission…

I’m going to go with a vacuum sealed CTS-V Wagon.

At the risk of picking the low-hanging fruit...the Cybertruck. Miserably ugly design when it came out as a concept, clear form over function issues, horrendous unveiling event, and it made it to production in much the same state as it was in concept. Not to mention, I’d hazard to guess many owners with their…

100% correct. I bought my dad a Series IIA a few years back and it is infinitely cooler than the TJ I had at the time. Things a GD tractor.