After she died I watched this segment and just cried.

Oh, I miss Sabine so much. Gone way too early. Her energy and enthusiasm for driving was so contagious. This is probably my favorite segment with her (happens to be not Top Gear).

Welp, guess I won’t add a pic since it’s been mentioned here, but it is the one episode that sticks out for me too. Don’t really know why it hit me like it did and couldn’t pick a particular scene that stood out, but that episode felt like a true adventure to me.

Sabine in the van is definitely a favorite of mine.

This one was good, but I personally thought the first two USA trips were more iconic. The bit about driving through Alabama with a car that says “HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT” ending with them getting attacked by a bunch of yokels should be taught in social studies classes.

The US Road Trip was pretty great. And the destroyed tire and then tire shop segment in particular (I can’t find the full segment in one piece, so here you go).

The entire Vietnam episode.  That was the peak and everything since has been chasing that high.

“that pricing is expected to start at $113,000"

It’s possible there’s a sub-$10k Fit within a reasonable distance of Bozeman that I missed, but I didn’t see one. And something tells me a kid with a max budget of $10k isn’t going to want to pay to ship one across the country sight unseen since that would mean having to buy something older and cheaper.

At the risk of being mind-numbingly unimaginative, I have to think that the right answer is the newest / fewest km Honda Fit you can find.  With winter tires ours is a trooper in the snow.  It gets phenomenal fuel economy.  It’s got the best size : space ratio of any car I’ve owned.  And it’s as reliable as hell.

i owned a 98 S70 T5 and there are a couple of things i’d look out for:

make sure all of the window switches and door locks work. the switch panel in the driver’s door breaks. it’s not difficult to replace with a chinese knock off, but when you find out the lock actuators are also bad, those are expensive to replace or a…

“GM’s estimated mpg for Envista is 28 city, 32 highway and 30 combined”

This is pathetic for a small vehicle with a 1.2L turbo engine. 

Yeah, that confuses the HELL out of me.  

Looks good, but a 1.2l engine that’s MUCH smaller and less powerful than the China engine? 

Less power than a prius! 

The old-school driving enthusiast in me is happy about the 6-speed, but the 40+ year old pragmatist that I’ve become feels without a good automatic/DSG option Honda will be disappointed by sales because a whole lot of guys like me don’t actually want a manual daily driver, if we’re honest.

I have worked for the same company for a quarter of a century.

Any used Model S anywhere in the price range of your list is going to be 10 years old and well beyond its battery warranty period. And a battery replacement alone will buy you a very nice low-mileage replacement Fit. It’s a significant a risk... you’d be better off buying a used GTI and that’s saying something.

The 2012+ Focus had a lot of good things going for it and was nearly as good as the auto journo fanbois favorite the Mazda3 (which I have owned). But they really, really blew it with the PowerShift DCT- which, while enthusiasts continually gush about the superiority of manuals, an automatic is what 98.5% of normal…

I still feel that GM, Ford and others were stupid getting rid of their small affordable cars. I rented a Chevy Spark on a trip and for being a 13k car it was totally FINE. Power windows, decent mobile phone enabled sound system, good fuel economy, decent power and acceleration, even dare I say- fun to drive?