Yea, but this line is gold and I must congratulate you for it -

In the old days it used to be weird at Giants games when they were at Candlestick.  Maybe city fields are the way to go.  Everyone just spills out into the streets afterwards rather than milling around in giant parking lots..

We bought a MK5 GTI - model year 2008 - brand new for my wife as a daily driver. She loved that thing and before we traded it in, I finished off our time with the car for it’s last year with us as a daily driver taking it up to almost 100k miles.

Butchers, teachers and postal workers no longer exist?

It also happens to be true.

It wasn’t bullshit a generation ago.

Counterpoint - in a race to the fucking bottom, everyone loses.  Except for those who run the show.

I like your take. When people get weird about cars - especially ones that are not even special or unique, I don’t get it. I had a friend one time that used to rent a car if they were going to like go to Tahoe or something because “I don’t want to put too many miles on my ride”. I’m like.. um, whatever cost associated…

Got it. One thing about the new ones though - they all have the sport seats now, which is pretty cool.

Good call, she’s great in that.

I get what you’re saying here, but I would only add that there’s not a lot of actual enjoyment from passing money from one person to another. But there is enjoyment in driving this NSX. If it got driven..

+1.

I’d get another X3 if you’re going to get something new. I have the previous gen and it’s been 0 issues for me with 80K on the clock now and a friend of mine last year got the new gen. When those start showing up as CPO’s, they will represent a pretty damn decent bargain.

Rea’s post quotes this as “Bakersfield Sound,” hopefully indicating that this was Reeves’ description of the genre.

This isn’t Mayberry.  The population of Greenwich Village alone is like 22K people.

I’ve done that ride before, too, but that’s regional, not 23 hours on a train.

Jesus wept.

Not long ago, myself and many others got stuck behind some moron in a Smart car doing 60 in the left lane on one of the local interstates - with a 65MPH limit. She absolutely refused to get out and it really fucked up the traffic all around her. They are worse than Prius’ and anyone that takes one of these things on…

A million years ago I had a roommate - there were 3 of us total in a large apartment - who was so unbelievably disgusting that we one time during a party used his room as a test like they do in the Marines with tear gas.  He worked overnights, so wasn’t home..