I like the Mazda6 a lot for the most part. The interior room is great, the trunk space is good, the handling is great, and the styling is excellent. It’s by far the most fun you can have in the dreaded “mid size” category. I kinda feel bad that I haven’t really “tweaked” it more, but most of my money has been going…

+10 Internet Points to you for using the shit out of that 500! Honestly I haven’t driven the Abarth but it intrigues me. My baby is an 84 Rabbit GTI so I have a lot of love for the ultra light “spartan” and tossable lightweight cars. There’s a lot to be said for “driving a slow car fast”. I never thought I would…

Circa 1994-99 in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where it’s basically winter 5 months of the year. You were stupid if you drove a fox body or 3^rd gen Camaro in winter (even with snow tires) so those were rare. Insurance was a fortune too. We didn’t have a lot of “cool cars” because of that.

So I can break it down in…

Ah memories. Circa 1994-99 If you had a 93 and up Grand Am or Grand Prix you were lucky.

I don’t think we’ll ever get those back unfortunately. Some of the Euro wagons do it right though. I think the Audi Allroad and Golf Sport Wagen are close to doing it right, but the Volvos seem to be the best example. I was close to buying a 14 Outback but I just couldn’t do it with the questionable reliability of…

And here’s where I think CUVs have more appeal today than they did when many of us were kids. Cars cost a lot more money now, or at the very least they *feel* like they’re a much larger investment. Loans are increasingly 60, 66, 72 or even 74 months in many cases when they used to be 36-48. People don’t expect to…

I honestly think a lot of men still buy trucks because the wife won’t let them buy a sports car, and a truck is considered the “manly” vehicle that’s still an option.

If you find a hatchback or even a large enough sedan I think you can get away with doing a lot with it so long as the seats fold down. I bought a 2015 Mazda6 2 years ago and the thing that sold me on it was the rear passenger space and the trunk space. I’m 6’1” and I can comfortably sit behind the drivers seat with…

We need you to be able to get the car on the lot and have the engine kick in when you turn over the starter. That’s the only criteria we’ve been given. I had a guy who’s Jetta died on the way to his buyback appointment on Friday. He had it towed, and he was able to start it at the dealership. So, he got his check.

“Operable” means that a vehicle so described can be driven under its own 2.0-liter TDI engine power. A vehicle is not Operable if it had a branded title of “Assembled,” “Dismantled,” “Flood,” “Junk,” “Rebuilt,” “Reconstructed,” or “Salvaged” as of September 18, 2015, and was acquired by any person or entity from a…

In truth less than half of CUV and SUV drivers actually NEED one, but they insist on it anyway because car manufacturers (for ther the sake of selling vehicles that have a higher profit margin) have been perpetuating the selling point being “safer” and having a “higher view point” for years. I see way too many single…

Yeah, it’s gotten to the point now that you almost can’t replace the headunit in infotainment system driven cars because so much of the other controls for the vehicle are driven through them too. While the lag time for my ‘15 Mazda6 recognizing my bluetooth is slow and annyoying at times, I’m not going to loose my…

Yup, good luck with snow! On Sat. night I judged the local weather conditions near me in NE Indiana to be good enough to take an 1.5 hr. trip West. I left home with light snow and was doing 65 mph on snow tires. 85 miles West and 4 hrs. later on my way home it was a total shit show as I caught the edge of a weather…

This is my primary concern too. Hell, I’m worried that even 6 or 8 years from now all of the bluetooth integration, “infotainment systems”, and sensors for emergency braking, active cruise control, etc. for today’s cars will be obsolete and hard to service.

Do we really 100% trust Tesla, etc. to be fully responsible…

Yeah, as much as I’d like to own a GN I’m sure you’re right. A Terminator Mustang would probably be just as fun as a newer Vette but I agree that a GN is more about the historical significance and not so much the performance compared to what’s on the road today. Part of me would like to finally own a Fox body too…

This is the definition of CP. I have only met 2 people who were happy B5 S4 owners, and both of them happened to work for euro performance shops that made money hand over fist fixing these things so they knew what was going to break and they got a deal on parts.

Expecting a B5 S4 to be a reliable problem free car is…

Yeah, it’s shocking to me to see that a regular C7 has plummeted that much in such a short amount of time! I’m by no means a Corvette expert, but if a base C7 is only 55 HP less (and still over 400!) I’d probably opt for a much newer C7 over an early C6 Z06.

Yeah, a Porsche is looking like a pipe dream now. I could see myself spending about $20K on whatever I chose, which would put an overly depreciated Vette right in my range.

So how much is a C6 Z06 these days then? Is a base C7 compareable for the most part?

I fully intend to buy a ceremonial “Mid Life Crisis Car” in 4 years when I turn 40 and the dream of that being an air cooled Porsche (or any Porsche for that matter) is becoming less and less likely.

So I’ve pretty much resigned…

That T-bird would be a great one too.