Two years ago, on a whim, I bought a very gently used 2018 Toyota Tundra Limited Crewmax pickup: 41,000 miles and Toyota Certified with a warranty until practically forever or … Continue Reading Trying To Convince Myself to Sell A Perfectly Good Toyota Tundra for Something Fun
It seems like I read a lot these days about how Millennials, Gen Z, and Gen Alpha – generally speaking – just don’t have the same car bug as we … Continue Reading Igniting the Passion: Getting Your Kid(s) Excited About the Car Hobby!
[Author’s note: At Mr. Bracq’s suggestion, I’m writing this article to a background mix of Miles Davis, Bill Evans, George Gershwin, and a host of other classical and jazz music … Continue Reading Paul Bracq at 90: Joie de Vivre!
There’s been a lot of chat lately – really since the onset of the COVID pandemic -about how online enthusiast-oriented car auctions like BringaTrailer, PCar Market, MB Market, Cars and … Continue Reading Where Have All The Good Cars Gone?
Last week, a 1987 Honda Prelude Si 5-speed in essentially showroom condition and with hardly more than delivery miles (a tad over 4,200) sold on the Bring a Trailer auction … Continue Reading Nostalgia is a Funny Thing…
We’ve talked before about how Jonathan is more the BMW guy here at TTS and Mercedes-Benzes are more my thing. While that is certainly true both by the sheer numbers of … Continue Reading 1985 BMW 745i: When an S-Class is Just Too Milquetoast
This piece was first published in Classic Mercedes magazine’s Winter 2022/2023 issue, where my good friend and editor holds me to a strict timeline and set of minimum expectations – something … Continue Reading Rally, Ho!
About a year ago I published a piece entitled “The Cars That Keep Me Coming Back for More” wherein I talked about a variety of cars that keep finding their … Continue Reading (My First) 25 Years of Mercedes-Benz Addiction..
One of the things that the “BringaTrailer” phenomenon has seemingly accomplished is having helped push prices of even many of the most esoteric of classic Mercedes-Benzes (and countless other marques) … Continue Reading 1985 Mercedes-Benz 380SE: Bargain Benz That’s Better Than You Think
As a certifiable Car Geek I often joke (am I joking?) with family and friends that I am on a long quest to own one of every car I’ve ever … Continue Reading Mercedes-Benz W123 300D Turbo Diesels: Still Affordable Despite What You’ve Heard
Every so often I am a little surprised at the realization that we have never discussed a certain car here on Totally That Stupid. Case in point: the 5th generation … Continue Reading 2008 Maserati Quattroporte: Sexy Can Certainly Come with Four Doors
True story: It was 2004, and we were in England on vacation: four Hitchcocks, two in-laws, and a fun and roomy diesel Volkswagen crossover/minivan thing. At the time our kids … Continue Reading Wagons Ho! Eight sub-$10K Estates to Chase Away the Minivan Blues
So you know we like old German cars, and you may know that we (at least I) like some of those cars best when they burn diesel fuel. But what … Continue Reading 1984 Lincoln Continental Givenchy Turbo Diesel: When is a BMW not a BMW?
Anyone who has spent some time around Totally That Stupid or its authors knows we love old and older Audis. During our formative years in the 1980s and 90s, they … Continue Reading 1995 Audi A6: A Classic From Ingolstadt
As a follow-up to last week’s feature of the grand and glorious Mercedes-Benz W140 S420 sedan, I keep finding myself falling down the rabbit hole of classic yet interesting German youngtimer sedans. … Continue Reading 1984 BMW 733i or 1973 Mercedes-Benz 350SE: Choose your Seven Grand Swabian Sedan
Among the reasons I first partnered-up on this blog was to give myself a forum to write about cars, ponder their strengths and weaknesses, in an effort to talk myself … Continue Reading 1998 Mercedes-Benz S420: Overengineering at its Finest
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