Three years later, the Jeep is on its last leg

Fastback is not the right description for a blob like an X6. Fatback would be more fitting. Similar, yet very different.

Counterpoint:

Dumbass company.  It’s not the hairpiece.  He’s smiling cause he finally schucked that turtleneck.

Oh yes. BMW has infuriated me with their lack of consistency in naming lately.

One word:PussyWagon

Those bureaucrat thugs at GCAN tried to get me to stop calling my Ram the Pimpmobile. If I didn’t do it for my wife, I’m certainly not doing for some One World Government paper pushers in Europe. 

Can we use ugly instead - they don’t work for me. It’s BMW’s fault, I reckon. They gave us the X6 and it’s just so much wrong.

One of the most code brown-inducing locations for truckers is at the base of I-5 before it levels off near the town of Grapevine at the end of the downgrade from the Tejon Pass. It’s where there’re not one but TWO escape ramps on either side of the northbound lanes. It’s a nerve-wracking downhill for automobile…

Ha!  They got it back up and running fairly quickly.  And I did explain to a few people how to find the ramp.

“And that was the day I ruined the California State Fair for everyone waiting in line behind me.”

Achievement unlocked: Kobyashi Maru 

The hero we needed.

not because I wrecked the truck, but the CalTrans folks were not even aware that the simulator HAD a runaway sand pit.

A few years ago at the California State Fair CalTrans brought their 18-wheeler driving simulator for all to try. Even in that artificial environment you realize the massiveness and challenges of driving one. I gained a new appreciation for big rig drivers.

I had a brand new 1999 (technically 1999.5) Jetta GLS 2.0 5MT, a new 2004 (technically 2004.5) Passat GLS 1.8T 5MT, a used 2008 Jetta SE 2.5 5AT, and a used 2010 VW Touareg V6. I loved VWs and escaped without the well-documented reliability issues.

Yes. Those things happen. But not in the Mk3. Mk3 ABA intake manifolds don’t die like Mk4 ones do, headliners don’t fall like Mk4s, and leaks aren’t normal except oil. Power window regulators do die predictably, but they give you warning signs, and manual regulators don’t fail. The weakest points of the Mk3 are the…

As some one who has experience with several of these I disagree strongly. Saw three of these go deep into the six digit miles with very little issue. One went 300k on the original clutch and relatively minor problems before being taken out in an accident.

I had a girlfriend at the time who had to buy a new car and I was able to convince her a ‘94 GLX was the way to go. I ended up picking it up halfway across the country and put 1,000+ miles on it the first day and a ton of miles on for the next few years we dated.

It was a hoot to drive and a remarkable step up from the…

I liked the niche that VW Passats had back then and through the mid- to late-2000s. They nestled between the Camry/Accord and the ES300/TL. Same for the Jetta of that era - above the Corolla/Civic, but not BMW 3-series or Mercedes C-class. Volkswagen had premium features that you couldn’t find in mainstream brands at…