geistkoenig
Patrick Frawley
geistkoenig

Why don’t you want a Mazda 3 again? I just bought one for well under your budget limit and it’s great. Read more

First-gen VW Golf/Rabbit. Muffy, Buffy, Biff, and Biff Jr. wouldn’t be caught dead in budget American wheels. Read more

The sooner that Harley transitions to being a more general-audience motorcycle company and the sooner they get out from under that gruesome image/lifestyle identity that they’ve lived on for the last four decades - what was once their marketing hook is now suffocating them - the better off they will be. Read more

Quite honestly, if I was in charge of something like this with a staff of researchers working under me, I know I’d probably get a bunch of things wrong. Anachronisms exist. That’s just life.

Wonder if this is the return of GM underrating power figures like they did in the late ‘60s with certain products. (Example: the L88 motor in the Corvette was rated/labeled at 435hp, but in reality power output was well over 500.) Read more

Christ, I would’ve bought this if I’d had a lead on it. Clean E36s of any kind are getting rare, and this one is all kinds of desirable - manual, good color, good condition. (Yeah, the proportions are kinda weird. Call it form over function and enjoy it.) Very fair ask and hope it goes to a good home. Read more

It’s not so much the Detroit suburbs as it is specifically Auburn Hills - the home of Volkswagen of America. Read more

Nobody says you have to spend your entire budget. If you have a $70,000 upper limit and something that costs $30,000 works perfectly well, why not? Read more

No, that’s about where they’re headed.

It is a generic (if not unattractive) contemporary midsized GT car with an absurd nose. Read more

Trucks are big slow targets, and modern trucks are too electronics-intensive. If I’m escaping the collapse, my priorities are:

It looks grumpy and sad. Someone give it some tea and cookies. Read more

The paint is very much a matter of personal preference (or tolerance); the ask is exceedingly fair.

Well, that didn’t take long.