Does no one here fault the morality of the buyer?!? Jesus H - its like Tom is completely absolving the buyer of any fault, here. Nobody held a gun to the buyer’s head and said “sign here”. This speaks more to the “I deserve a new car” mentality of people than it does to the sales tactics of a car dealer. Dealers are…

Sadly many Americans are really uninformed about how the credit system and math works.

My Seiko is self-winding, so it never even needs a new battery...

BMWs and VWs (anything from VAG group) are on my list of “cars to never, ever, ever, EVER own” due to the astronomical maintenance and repair costs.

Spot on.

“The Supra had to have an inline-six. BMW had a good inline-six.”

That’s very accurate. The MX5 is great and I’m glad it exists, but the rest of the lineup is not impressive, beside the good looking front clip.

The whole automobile journalistic community has been trying to make Mazda happen for years, so I take everything I read about Mazda with a grain of road salt.

“And the Emperor Shall Rain Down Fire Upon Those That Defile a Toyota Engine Bay With A German Engine”.

It’s a MT sedan? How long did y’all think it was really going to survive? We had a 6MT 2013 Passat TDI. Great mileage, comfy ride, tons of trunk space, pretty good in winter for FWD with snow tires.

But - it was still only a sedan. An Odyssey replaced it. Fit 0 dogs in the Passat. ;)

Our other car is 16 GTI 6MT - and…

Clearly.

You’re just upset that he has way more years of experience than you

I have two different HF jacks, they are both fine. I prefer them to the ancient American-made ones my dad owns which are going on 50 years old now.

Even if I still think that your articles give some readers the impression that pretty much everything can be fixed/replaced without too much difficulty; I think you did mention that benzes are like legos and that parts aren’t difficult to swap in/out, I thank you for taking the time to reply.

The only thing keeping that dangling 3200 lb posterchild of conformity known as a Honda Accord from crushing his Emmy-Award winning skull is a Harbor Freight hydraulic jack made by the lowest bidder in a country that thinks Quality Control is a movie starring Tom Cruise in the late ‘80s.

OMG I was just talking with my dad about dropping a new catalytic into my 2004 Camry; his is the only YouTube video to address it. My dad says to go pro. But I’m like, “look at the video! It’s easy!” Okay, dad, you win this one.

His advices are rubbish but at least he won an emmy. Your article on W220 downplays the complexity of the car and merely mentioned one problem with drain plug under the hood that could kill the ECU, and stating “frame damage” can be fixed back to normal by shops on a unibody car. So it’s like the pot calling the…

This is what really scares me out of buying used vehicles. There isn't a "problem" at first but 100 miles down the road...