Weird flex, but ok.

Too many dealers are still selling cars like all these unscrupulous companies that sell time shares.

My interest in supercars and hypercars has softened tremendously. Being fast in a straight line is of almost no importance to me, but hustling through some curves is where my interest lies. Still deeply fascinated with Bush (W) era BMW’s, some 15+ years strong now.  My neighbor had an Alpine White ZHP circa 2004-2005,…

A little, yeah. 

300hp GTI, I think, will happen first. However, it would surprise no one if they axed the wagon variants altogether before either happened.

IIRC it’s getting an update in the near future and will be based on the global Navarra.  I could totally be wrong though.

N:  There was a Sears automotive center attached to a mall in my home town.  The mall opened circa 1996 and I believe the Sears with it.  As malls are wont to do, it began failing as early as 2005.  It circled the drain, and the Sears with it, for more than a decade.  Finally it was put out of its misery in 2017.  My…

I’m curious if he is charged with furnishing his own truck for work or would one be provided? If he’s considering buying one I have to assume he has to furnish it himself, and there really isn’t a great solution that doesn’t involve buying two cars. So I would recommend doing that.

I find myself honking at at least one driver per day when I am stuck behind a motionless car at a stoplight. You get at most two-Mississippi’s from the light turning green to being in motion. If I reach a third Mississippi and you are still motionless, staring down at your phone, the horn is blowing.

I’m genuinely concerned that dealerships are going to fuck this up. Kia needs to roll out some good incentives right out of the gate.

I like you.

Well that’s rather grim. But I can’t disprove it.

Well damn.

Can’t afford the airfare. :-(

Interesting

Time for people to start having smaller and smaller families.

Correct. Banning the sale of new. Not taking existing ones off the road.

Oi. I wanted one with a burning passion. But that whole “affording it” thing never worked out.

Would you by chance characterize it as...an intriguing experience?

My Hot Take: Will lobbyists step up and protect jobs with the same voracious fervor they display in protecting the auto dealership business model?