Dear readers, I have an affliction. I make bad car buying decisions. I have six Smarts and keep buying VWs that burn me. Yet, I never learn my lesson!
Today, I showed you this by writing about very cheap Volkswagen Touareg V10 TDIs for sale. Look, there’s a reason people joke that cheap German cars are some of the most expensive cars you can buy.
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I’m not surprised to see few people interested, but the responses were fantastic. Aaronaut kicks it off:
“Volkswagen’s Craziest Modern SUV Has A V10 Twin Turbo Diesel And You Can Buy One For Dirt Cheap BUT FUCKING DON’T“
Plus Nsane In The MembraNe:
I admire the absurdity that was the Piëch era, but I know to do so from afar.
And StillNotATony:
I’m on to you Mercedes! You’ve been talking about thinning your fleet, and this is a CLASSIC pump-and-dump! You’re telling us how great this car is riiiiight before you try to unload it.
You gotta get up pretty early in the morning to put one over on me!
Don’t worry, I’m not selling mine anytime soon! But, I guess I’m trying to get one of you to join me in the madness?
Today, Jason wrote about how Ford has patented a midgate for the Maverick, which is pretty cool! But it’s also sort of half-baked, as BolognaBurrito notes:
Nice. Would be nicer if you could get the glass out of the way too like GM’s mid-gate.
Rad Barchetta makes a good point here:
Getting the glass out of the way is easy. Getting it back in is the hard part.
This morning, the Morning Dump covered how yep, cars are still pretty darn expensive. Gubbin’s comment is fitting:
Finance department be all:
Is it worth it? Let me work it
I put my thing down, flip it and reverse it
​ti esrever dna ti pilf ,nwod gniht ym tuP
​ti esrever dna ti pilf ,nwod gniht ym tuP
If you got a big [kaching!] let me search ya
And find out how hard I gotta work ya
Have a great evening, everyone!
I realize that it is a lot of fun to make fun of high-mileage, highly-depreciated German luxury cars, but mine have been pretty reliable. I own or have owned my share.
Counterpoint: How about starting jokes about the reliability of late-2000s GM pickup trucks? After buying one with highly detailed service records, I have rebuilt the transfer case, the transmission, almost every suspension component, the hydraboost unit, just about every A/C blend door actuator, axle seals, injectors, and I am now troubleshooting the oil pressure circuit. All on a completely stock truck with less than 200,000 miles (fewer than my highly-depreciated German machines). Germans don’t have a lock on troublesome cars.
The ability to make repeated bad car-buying decisions is, in itself, a luxury.
Missy Elliott wrote it, y’all!