That’s exactly what we did. After our beloved Mazda5 was totaled we went looking for a 3-row SUV. Kia wouldn’t let us test drive the Telluride but we did get to drive a Pallisade. It was big, floaty, crammed with tech and very pricey. We would have bought a Pallisade over a Telluride if only for the shitty dealership…

It’s too expensive and too bland. While the stick and the AWD are intriguing, I have to think that this is going to be a comparatively primitive AWD system compared to anything even 10 years old. The mouse belts are a deal-killer and just remind me of how terrible the crash safety of this thing must be.

I did exactly this when my Mazda5 got totaled last summer. I figured out what I wanted and emailed every Subaru dealer within 50 miles which included about 4 different states. Despite me telling them I had cash in hand and would buy today if they had the best price, only about half of them bothered to get back to me…

Cons: Boring, ugly, small, slow, stripper model, 30-year-old German car for HOW MUCH?!?!?!?

This should be right up my alley: 4-seater convertible with FWD and a 4-cylinder. But there are a number of things putting the brakes on this:

Am I hearing things, or is this thing scored to Oh Canada? I swear if I close my eyes for the first 17 seconds my brain is filling in “god keep our land....glorious and free....ohhhh” and then a power chord. My first thought was ‘They’re fighting Canadians?’ but that seems pretty unlikely. Not because Americans…

The price seems pretty good if you want this specific car. Reliability is questionable as a Jag in the first place and 70K miles plus ECU, etc. is only going to make it more so. But, if you’re buying a Jag you know what you’re in for.

‘My’ Camry burns less gas and has useful safety features like airbags, ABS and traction control. And, most likely, working brakes that aren’t trying to stop three times as much weight.

I’m glad I never drove an earlier model, then.

Except these had fuel injection which helped reliability, an overdrive transmission and can do 25 mpg on the freeway.

Your ‘79 was a different model and a huge pig of a car. The Panther-based Marquis a smaller boat.

I don’t care, it’s still a big, ugly, slab-sided, gas-guzzling, floaty sofa and I don’t want to drive it, let alone own it. 

My dad bought it and was hyped because it was proof that he’d ‘made it’. He’d always wanted to own a ‘luxury’ car and the gently used Grand Maarquis was his status symbol. The thing even had ashtrays with cigarette lighters in the back seat armrests! And a power antenna! Our first car ever with power windows! Not to…

Don’t care - still a boat. Not interested in ever driving one of these pigs again.

You wouldn’t know it to look at them. They’re both big, ugly, unresponsive and floaty sedans that I don’t want to drive.

Had an ‘87 Grand Marquis (same basic car) and it was one of the most versatile, all around best cars I’ve owned.

I’d go with a LS swap, cut a hole in the hood for a supercharger, dual stacks exhaust, LSD, donk wheels, airbag suspension with a switchboard on the dash, removable steering wheel, actual neon undercarriage lights (none of that LED crap), naked girl silhouette rear wheel mudflaps, and fuzzy dice on the rear view…

Honestly, just look at the Trumpers to see the deep homoerotic undertones of fascism being flaunted openly. Like the Nazis, Republicans have always been just a bit too worshipful of masculinity and and bit too obsessed with homophobia to the point where it’s never a surprise when one of them gets caught with a dick in…

I have long been on a crusade to deter people from buying VW, mostly because I have made the mistake of buying VW and have known too many people who have made the same mistake.

I like convertibles and these are cute. Might be fun to drive. I might fit in it. It might not be that bad. $2K is pretty close to ‘fuck it’ money.