Throw the Polestar2 into the shell of a V70 and Volvo will take back New England from Subaru. Toss it into a 240 and they’ll win most urban hipsters, too.

I was kind of hoping for an S40 styled like the S60 but a bit smaller. I noticed the T6 engine isn’t an option for S/V 60 on Volvo’s site but didn’t see any news of it being dropped.

When I was car shopping for the first time in 1999 the salesman swore the Civic Si I was ready to buy had anitlock brakes. The moonroof made headroom too low, anyway. I bought an Imperza RS instead.

I thought only Eugene Levy did that sort of thing

A lot of subarus success in the US is the outback and Crosstrek, and in Europe wagons are still available from lots of makers with far more options than Subaru can offer.

A news article would probably carry more weight than brother none of us know.

I’d bet the Mercedes was reassembled and is running as a taxi today.

These days it’s probably better to find an import from Japan. I saw rural carrier with a 4x4 Hiace in Michigan last week that dates from the early 90s.

A G29 will be fine, but if you get the shifter get used to skipping gears and setting a hot key to switch between hi/lo ranges as it only has six speeds.

Back in the 80s the VW Fox looked like a good idea until you drove one. Better to get a Sentra, or these days a Fit.

That beach picture looks super-chill. I hope the original wheels still fit on it.

“Disrupt” basically means avoiding a particular law and pocketing the money you’d spend following it. Taxi companies have to meet standards that a rideshare doesn’t. Uber could have built a better taxi service, but make a lot more money not following taxi regulations.

Those are fickle boom/bust jobs, though. You have to be really careful when you make money like that for work like that.

What about retirement?

That price would make sense if it was one that Paul Newman or David Letterman owned, but those were manuals if I remember.

Indiana University’s cable network started a movie channel in 94 or 95 and would show a block of movies on repeat for a month. Breaking Away was one of the first ones (along with Animal House and The Blues Brothers) and it seemed like it was always on.

Norway has a few: https://www.google.com/maps/@60.4777821,6.8145023,14.37z

Unlike the Hyundai as someone else stated if you drank a shot for every cut line on the new Civic you may not die before reaching the A pillar.

They stopped selling a decent hatchback that’s still sold in the rest of the world to develop a similar spec’d larger and uglier sedan just for the US? Is VW really the only company that gets it right selling cheap stuff like the Passat/Jetta/Atlas to the gringos while still offering something decent like the Golf for…