Lukewarm take: the show was neither particularly good nor particularly bad.

My station wagon has a flat six. 

+1 star,

yeah, they’re nothing like BMW V8s of the era. The M54 itself is extremely reliable. Some of the accessories, a little less so. But the engine itself doesn’t pose any hidden worries.

Lets keep in mind that they had a nearly new 2018 Subaru Legacy that was given to them so this had nothing to do with needing space. It was entirely selfish reasons on his part and I called him out on it.  

A similar type of car in terms of age, condition, type, etc. is about $12,000 today.

Add a supercharger. It’ll be a Leaf blower.

While the red and black is very sneaker, theres a lot about that interior I like.

Somebody mentioned Buc-Ees in Texas, which got its start as a place with plentiful and (more importantly) always clean bathrooms where you could stop with your children and not worry you’d get some hideous highway gas station bathroom.  It worked, and now the average location is like half a million square feet.

Maybe Bo Derek’s iMac could hook up with Hunter Biden’s laptop

I am always going to NP a car that seems like a reasonable price for a good daily driver. I know the dude who hates German autos will bitch and the dude who loves them all, will wax rhapsodic. I just want dependable.

It does a decent job of staying out of its own way.

I did like how they chose an rare euro car but then didn’t make a bit thing about it.

I totally agree - it’s kind of disconcerting. They usually have a good half-dozen for sale at a time, and a bunch of presumably customer cars in the lot. I guess there is a market for them.

Counterpoint - some of the BEST car chases / stunts are low-HP (think the yellow Citroen 2CV in Bond “For Your Eyes Only”, the OG Mini in whichever Bourne film it was, and the original Italian Job) while a lot of others with more powerful/exotic cars are just dull.

Hell, there’s a person who lives nearby me who has an orange one. It goes with their house made to look like a little villa with orange stucco and a purple Mini Countryman with some sort of sparkly, swoopy graphics on it. That person has seen the ugly and embraced it.

And the golf ball car.

I love that early Jimmy drove an Esteem.

Totally agreed. I particularly liked how Hank drives a Commander. It is a cheap, crappy car that was basically the worst thing in its segment, yet tries very hard to exude a ‘Murica image. They couldn’t put him in a Suburban - it had to be something conveying the fact that he’s got some struggles and isn’t as…

NHTSA = No Having The Sounds Administration