The Mazda6 that we acquired in late 2008 represented a bit of a departure for us, since it was not a Toyota and was a bit more interesting than the […]
I think every reader in the CC community figured out that a “Zoom-Zoom” Mazda was the follow-up car for the 2007 Camry based on my not-so-subtle hints. Some commenters expressed […]
When I wrapped up the 2008 Lexus ES350 a couple of weeks ago, I alluded to replacing it with a Lexus that virtually no one wanted. Several commenters quickly zeroed […]
Doing the COAL series and looking back at the cars I have purchased over the past quarter century or so has given me an interesting perspective. Looking at the cars […]
I have owned a lot of cars over my driving career, and some of them have been pretty interesting. Some others…not so much. This week, unfortunately, is one of the […]
I found having a third car (the 2000 Taurus I profiled a couple of weeks ago) to be really handy for many reasons. A four-door sedan was a great extra […]
By 2005 I was halfway between 30 and 40, and looking for a car with a more upmarket nameplate than the Toyotas and Hondas I’d been choosing in the past. […]
With this week’s installment I will get back more to a chronological order for my car purchases. As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I very much liked the […]
Last week’s COAL entry on my 2003 Matrix ended with an inadvertent guessing game of sorts about the Matrix’s replacement, with at least two separate camps for the Toyota Prius […]
As I described last week, I soured pretty quickly on my 2002 Camry because of cost and quality issues. For whatever reasons, that particular car mistake got in my head […]
In the last episode, I spoke about (surprise) buying a vehicle that I ended up not liking very much. In addition, our Tundra was coming to the end of its […]