I do love old BMWs, but in case anyone asks I am very solidly on Team Monoblock AMG Wheels.

You could get one of these with a manual. Five-speed in the pre-facelift model, six-speed in the post-facelift model. The fact that it’s probably the only factory manual Mercury sedan since the three-on-the-tree days makes it slightly more interesting, right?

It’s like an 8-bit version of the Buick Verano.

Cheap, fairly reliable used car. Likely to be underpriced because of huge depreciation, yet shares cheap Ford parts.

2003 Pewter GMC Safari. This van took us all over the country on summer road trips, and served us moderately well. My parents had to change the transmission once, and fix the infamously unreliable air conditioning almost every year. But I must admit the styling of this van was always very sharp and simple, something…

Sorry, for me only a Citroën Visa satellite will do. I have the simplest tastes, I am always satisfied with the best.

The only thing I can think of is they didn’t run her plate or realize who she was and thought it was just a lady that forgot her wallet. If they knew who she was, just the fact she is at the gas station alone with her car should have prompted an arrest. Not sure about Kansas, but the second she put the key in the…

Don’t forget that in Topeka, stop signs are optional, at a 4 way stop everyone sits there trying to motion the other guy on, there are a number of intersections were one road has a yield and the other is unmarked, and there are a few intersections with absolutely no markings. (Though thankfully the one yield and…

Can you answer why the cops would let her DRIVE OFF without a license? In my neck of the woods they would have arrested her and impounded the vehicle. Had she gotten into an accident, the police would be entirely responsible for letting her drive off.

As someone who was very reluctantly forced to move there for a period of one year the nicest thing I can say about Kansas is that it doesn’t suck as bad as you probably think it does.

There was an Aztek done up for SEMA which I thought looked pretty great. It’s funny how this vehicle got shit on for its styling, and now cars like the BMW X4/X6 and Mercedes GLC are proliferating.

I’m still holding out hope for a Lincoln Mustang

And this saab

The Cadillac Sixteen.

Lincoln Continental.

Call me odd, but I’ve always liked the Espada.

MK4 Jetta had body colored b-pillars (you said “within the last decade or so”, this falls under or so), but by MK5 they were all black.