I honestly really hate that the manual is dying. I went and took a look at a new Mazda6 Touring Manual, and I couldn’t get over how well it drove. It was firm, responsive, and had good power. But then I looked at a Grand Touring w/ the Premium Package. Holy crap it was on a much nicer level, and it’s about the budget…

You, sir, earned a gold star. Although the most I can award is a blue.

First owner watched the amphibious car episode of Top Gear, and then saw the car had a trident on the steering wheel. Guy probably put 0+0 together and thought “Hey my car has an amphibious mode!” After it failed, he figured it would save his pride looking like he drove it into a lake for insurance fraud over just…

Watch the episode, it’s more like a white hearse with the most hilariously slow rear hatch and Ambulance spelled backwards.

I’ll meeting with my lawyer tomorrow. This will never change out of my will. The replacement (being that the tazers cannot be provided) will be a buttermilk drinking contest. Puking disqualifies.

My mind immediately went to the Codsworth hearse they used in Top Gear.

Cheap Toyotas are sometimes awesome, but this one is not my cup of tea. That’s why I went with a 1994 4Runner with 116,700 miles. I picked up from an old guy who bought it new in ‘93, took immaculate care of it, and just babied it. I bought it just shy of $1500. It’s a 3.0 V6 with the SR5 package, and it drives smooth…

They’re honestly not bad cars when they were new. When you think about it, it’s a FWD manual Camry wagon (2007 and later anyways). However, the 2006 and older use a 1.5l, 103 HP 4 cylinder. That generation is essentially a bigger, slower, and heavier Yaris hatchback. I’m sorry but for $3,800, I feel like you could buy…

I’m saying the GTI/WRX buyers aren’t actually going to bite. They’ll see it show up as a “competitor” to them, read the specs, and then buy a GTI/WRX anyways

I figured that was the Corolla S Manual buyer, but way more on point.

I like that the majority of comments are “would much rather buy a GTI/86/WRX” even though the majority of people who are actually going to buy this are bros that can’t afford a 370Z or college girls that think it looks cute (the terrible CVT of course).

I feel like Formula Drift would be WAY more interesting if they were forced to used stock, terrible-looking, 90's station wagons. Not these monstrous machines with a production car shell over the top of it. It’s really just NASCAR, but sideways.

Deus Ex is “kinda” based on Ghost in the Shell the same way Fallout/Fallout 2 is “kinda” based on Mad Max.

They’ll think you’re a retired colonel. Or at least they all drive CTS/CT6/Escalades around where I live.

I met mine at Walmart of all places. She used to be a cashier in college and I made an effort to go through her line anytime I needed something

Exactly. My wife and I are both under 25 (we have our own insurance through work too, because we have real jobs) so to everyone else we’re kids who are incapable of making real decisions, like buying a house, or a car, or setting up a Roth IRA. Even though we’ve already done that.

Definitely agree with that. My wife and I make about 5500 a month and we only pay 2300 a month to keep the lights on a feed ourselves. Could I go buy a new Porsche 718 or a 4 series? Sure. Does that make me rich? To about 85% of the town I live in it does. Because we decided to put education and our careers first, and…

4th gear: California is the guy he didn’t get a harrumph from.

For the same money, I feel like they could’ve put a body kit on a Rolls Royce Dawn and turned it into the King’s Regalia (even though it’s 80% Cadillac Ceil, which I’m still waiting for).