If you feel like you are going to fast around a corner, stamping on the brake will not help. It will send mom’s Oldsmobile Cutlass Cruiser wagon ass-first into a guardrail.

I can’t get past the giant dent in the doors. It looks like it was on the receiving end of a Camry bumper.  

It will be perfect with the “range extender” option (a gas powered generator in the bed and an extension cord duct taped to the side). NP.

I liked it a lot. The FXXK video was like a great CHoC video, the Kazakhstan trip was very cool, and the James McAvoy lap (with Harris’ commentary) was entertaining.

I have a project due to a client, but for some reason I just wasted two hours studying wrecked Volvos and Saabs for auction on Copart.

I wish the star on the nose lit up like on a CLA250. People would be like, damn, when did Valtteri Bottas get so classy!

This is made by the German coachbuilder BINZ, who make stretched E Class wagons into hearses. There are a few W210 pickup versions around, which seem to be the hearse platform without the big glassy camper cap thing on the back. That’s why the weird proportions.

There we go. Some nice plastic flares and fender gaps big enough to fit a canned ham . . . I’m feeling more pastoral already.

This strikes a perfect balance of athletic and elegant. So I assume for the US market they will give it a lift kit, glue on a bunch of plasticky crap trim, take some pictures of it by a lake and call it the Insignia FourAllTourCrossX.

My dad had a ‘76 X1/9 one when I was a teenager, early 80's. Sort of fun, but dog slow, even by 1980's standards. When you work on them, you realize that every component - every bolt, switch, wire, connector, etc. - is the crappiest quality imaginable, which took the fun out of wrenching. I never want to fix another…

Put an IKEA mattress in the back and this thing handily beats the $12k JDM Toyota camper from Monday. NP.

Cut the roof off!!

A couple of years ago, I bought an E-Class convertible during an ice storm from my neighborhood (outside DC) Mercedes dealer. It was CPO, low miles, three years old, and I got it for Camry money, well under $30k.

It appears that throwing oneself off the roof of a tall hotel into the pool (with a GoPro, of course) is a thing nowadays:

W210 wagon looked (and handled) like a Home Depot greenhouse.