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VW Bus....and irrefutable and unanswerable reason not to buy an S class...if a dude with a 73 VW Bus can date a chick whose buttocks do not look like prunes....I am taking the Bus over the S class...

Or a life time supply of bus passes, actually...or a Cannondale and $43,500 in the bank..... I have a kitchen appliance that would like a written apology from you for defamation of character. Actually the Avalon is a pretty decent product and everyone I know with them is very happy with them. Better yet, they don't go around comparing them to every other car on the planet on automotive forums. C and G is the only place where we can go from talking about a 65 VW Bus and van life to an S class Mercedes and its role as the number one selling luxury car in less than ten posts.

Quoted for truth. For what you get and what it costs, no thanks...

It's hard to argue with 435 horsepower vs 305...

Not entirely unfair, as Putin is reportedly somewhat anti Semitic also. A conspiracy in every driveway... Exactly....

That must be an insane job...dealing with the moronic public on a daily basis... People are so unwilling to consider alternate ideas it is almost frightening....not just cars...everything from politics to restaurant choices also... Given that our highways are filled with the most boring bland sedans and crossovers imaginable and every one of them is painted black, silver or ....black or silver....and I think they need creativity and willingness to take some risks in life more than they need advice. It is a good thing people are more willing to take sexual risks than automotive ones....because if everyone lacked sexual imagination like the buying public lacks automotive imagination, our species would die out from lack of procreation.

I see the troll contingent has shown up to defend Chryco. In all fairness, these were cool cars back in the day. I have seen Turbo 4's embarrass SS 396 Chevelels and Camaros at the drag strip. However, Chryco is pretty much out of the passenger car business other than a couple of retro muscle cars while Honda, Ford, GM, Porsche, VW, Audi, Mercedes, Toyota ane everyone else is still going strong. Chrysler really for all practical purposes died as a company building desirable passenger cars about 1973 or 1974, and they really have never come back. The K cars were total crap boxes, the Omnis and Horizons were rust prone crap boxes that were behind every other car in the day, and the laudable minivans were outclassed by products from Honda, Nissan and Toyota. In many ways it would serve the memory of Chryco much better if they had actually died in 1974 rather than the endless and embarrassing stream of Lebarons, Cordobas, K cars, Sebrings, Avengers, and Calibers they brought forth. I actually enjoy watching the endless stream of older Chryco stuff get crushed at my local pick and pull so it is no longer on the highway. Good riddance and good bye to 44 years of embarrassment to the American auto industry. Or not, in fear that it will cause extensive, long term or even permanent brain damage. You must have done something horrible to a young gypsy girl in a former life to be wiling to torture yourself with an Aires K car for so much as a weekend...522,000 miles....wow...you must be the envy of the trailer park!

Ohio has cheap insurance affordable housing, and lots of overcast days, there are trade offs. Isn't that special....! People complain about everything even when it is for the better.

They have done a great job on the car, the market is very competitive and I see better choices available. Still a neat piece of iron!

Golf R would be my choice, followed by the WRX. For 33K you can buy a 5.0 Mustang GT with a hundred more horsepower, a nicer interior, better exterior sheet metal, more aftermarket upgrades, and actual adults in the owner enthusiast community. I could see myself in it if other better choices didn't exist in the sport compact market.

Amazing stories.

ELIZABETH, Colo. (CBS4) - A woman whose buttocks were impaled by a four-inch-diameter metal pole says her near-brush with death is a lesson often given but not heeded: Don’t text and drive. The accident happened Wednesday as Jahnz, 35, left the parking lot of Elizabeth Middle School, where her daughter attends, and sent a voice text to a business associate. She glanced down briefly at the screen to confirm the text was correct when she slammed into a guard rail, which pierced her car’s left headlight, rammed through the engine compartment, sliced into her left buttock and emerged from the other side. The pole pinned her to her seat. She says she was traveling at roughly 20 mph. Firefighters sawed through both ends of the pole to free her. The rescue took nearly an hour. She was then taken to Parker Hospital where doctors removed the remaining segment, which a picture showed to be about three to four feet. The pole had embedded itself several inches into her. Cops: Woman Crashes Car While Shaving Her Privates PHOTO Megan Barnes is shown in her booking photo. Barnes was allegedly driving while shaving her bikini area when she hit another vehicle. Megan Barnes is shown in her booking photo. Barnes was allegedly driving while shaving her bikini area when she hit another vehicle. Handout Internet punsters are celebrating Megan Barnes as Florida's "Pubic Enemy," others are chattering about her "razor sharp focus." The 37-year-old Barnes catapulted to instant fame for an alleged multi-tasking mash-up that earned the bottle-blonde's mug shot a spot on hundreds of Web sites. According to a startled Florida Highway Patrol trooper, Barnes was shaving her bikini area while driving south on the famed Overseas Highway when she crashed into the rear of an SUV March 2. null Extreme World Travel Adventures Stay Up to Date on the Latest Travel Trends from ABC News on Twitter 'If I Wasn't There, I Wouldn't Have Believed It' In the police report obtained by ABC News, the trim job was apparently essential because the arresting officer, trooper Gary Dunick, said the Indiana native told him she was heading to Key West visit her boyfriend. "She said she was meeting her boyfriend in Key West and wanted to be ready for the visit," Dunick told the Key West Citizen. null 30 Places to Visit in 2010 It gets weirder. In order to pay full attention to her sensitive regions, police say Barnes enlisted her ex-husband, Charles Judy, who was riding shotgun, to hold the wheel. Yes, her ex-husband. Their tag-team driving went awry when an SUV driving in front of them slowed to turn. Barnes' 1995 Thunderbird smashed into it. Two of the SUV's passengers suffered minor injuries, police say. Barnes shouldn't have been driving that Thunderbird, since she had been convicted the previous day for driving under the influence and driving with a suspended license. According to the arrest report, it was the sixth time her license had been suspended. After the accident, Barnes and Judy drove off, police say. The Thunderbird limped a few hundred yards before the couple switched seats. "She jumps in the back seat and he moves over," Dunick told the Citizen. "It was like the old comedy bit, 'Who's on first?'" But the attempt to claim that Judy, not Barnes, was driving was also doomed. Judy had visible burns on his chest he claimed came from the exploding airbag, but only the passenger side airbag deployed, according to the police report. So Dunick charged Barnes with driving with a revoked license, reckless driving, leaving the scene of an accident with injuries and driving with no insurance. Judy was not charged. According to the arrest affidavit, the trooper asked her afterward why she didn't hit the brakes when she saw the SUV. She answered bluntly, "I told you, I was shaving." "If I wasn't there, I wouldn't have believed it," Dunick told the Citizen. "About 10 years ago, I stopped a guy in the exact same spot... who had three or four syringes sticking out of his arm. It was just surreal and I thought, 'Nothing will ever beat this.' Well, this takes it."

This will be expensive, as there will be huge fines to pay. VW had the money for this, FCA does not.

This thing is starting to grow on me a good bit actually...and if anything I would take a Golf R over the Focus RS or the Civic Type R. However, Focus Rs is starting to be available much cheaper on the used market.

I once watched a guy try to rebuild a Ford Dump Truck transmission by tapping and threading golf balls and using them in the place of bolts because he ran out of bolts. Singularly the dumbest repair job I have ever watched...

Another good review....factual, honest and impartial.

It does feel like our species is getting dumber every year...or maybe I am just getting old and cynical.

Agreed on the maximum penalties.

Yep, and drive it on the street afterwards....see the linky...actual thread from Miata net.

People are quite excited to own them here in the USA also. Agreed, but they are selling like crazy.

I have no idea but I like the last pic posted for some odd reason... ...and thanks for letting me hijack your thread...I love laughing at silly automotive modifications.

In all seriousness, I think this has political implications, but I do not want to take this down a politics rabbit hole. If Germany thinks FCA is getting treated with special provisos for their cheating, this may not be a happy thing in terms of relations with MS Merkel.

https://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?p=8333077 Quite the frame repair for a Rusty Mazda Miata frame....!