Reminds me of a very nice Dodge Power Wagon from the late 1940s that someone owns and drives in a city about 30 miles from me. A beautiful green one. I’m pretty sure I posted about it here.
Added — well I just searched on that and apparently I didn’t post about it here. I took many pictures of it then. They’re probably still on my phone. Or also on my imgur page.
Does someone really race their Prius?
I asked that same question about Smart Cars earlier in this thread, and I was told “if it has a motor in it, someone somewhere races it.”
Oh yeah I remember that now!
Cool. Before watching it, for some reason I pictured something else, I’ve skating on a lake using a chainsaw ➜
■ .
Clever. And your hearing protection is on to make it safe.
A typical Ram pickup truck, but what’s that decal in the rear window?
Yes, it’s a faravahar, holy symbol of Zoroastrians.
On my walk today, I passed what appeared to be a 1971 Cadillac Fleetwood Station Wagon like this one (same colour).
There’s a Ferrari 296 (cherry red, of course) parked at a body shop near me. Next time I go by I’ll snap a photo.
Drove alongside a Jaguar I-Pace this afternoon.
I saw an Alfa Romero Spider this evening. Based on the taillights and blue 1970s era California license plate, it looks like it was a Series 2.
Yesterday after the Giants Opening Day game (an exciting win!), my first VW ID. Buzz in the wild! (plus some other VW vans)
I wanted to look up some information about it. Here’s what I found. The generational pictures are from the web.
The Volkswagen ID. Buzz minivan is a BEV whose design was inspired by the Volkswagen Type 2 (T1) Microbus dating back to 1950. It became available in the US in 2025 and while I know people who’ve seen one, this is the first one I’ve ever seen. This was in San Francisco, near the Giants’ Oracle Park on Opening Day, yesterday, Friday 04 April 2025.
Its name, ID. Buzz, is a reference to the sound of electricity but it also refers to the original VW Microbus which was commonly known as the Volkswagen Bus. MSRP for the ID. Buzz (and yes, there’s a space in the name) starts around $60,000 and then runs to over $71,000 if you want AWD and the highest trim level. Car and Driver calls it “the Bee’s Knees”, but also says it weighs more than twice that of the original VW Microbus (a whopping 6,174 pounds versus 2,310!), and at freeway speeds (70mph) the wind noise registers a not-so-quiet 70 decibels, three more than the Honda Odyssey and the Kia EV9.
➜ https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a62638170/2025-volkswagen-id-buzz-test ■
My parents had a VW Microbus, and that’s what I learned to drive a stick on. It was surprisingly fun to drive and had decent handling (fahrvergnügen means “driving enjoyment”).
Sometimes called the Kombi (for Kombinationskraftwagen, combined-use vehicle, or Combi in Mexico and Peru), the evolution of the VW Microbus includes these generations and models, and model years:
∘ 1950, 1st generation, T1 (blue and white in the picture; “T” for Transporter)
∘ 1967, 2nd generation, T2 (tan and white, just like my parents had; and our psychedelic van from San Francisco Love Tours with my wife and niece and our tour guide Bob Smith from October 2017 [➜ www.sanFranciscoLoveTours.com/private-tours-san-francisco ■ ])
∘ 1979, 3rd generation, T3 “Vanagon” (green; my parents also later had a Vanagon too, the blue one inside the garage behind me and my first car, my beloved 1979 Fiat X1/9, 1983 in San Francisco)
∘ 1990, 4th generation, T4 “EuroVan” (silver; VW vans are now front-engined)
∘ 2003, 5th generation, T5 “Multivan” (dark blue)
∘ 2015, 6th generation, T6 “Multivan” (red and white)
∘ 2025, 7th generation, T7 “Caravelle” (white)
∘ 2025, ID. Buzz; not the 8th generation yet; only time will tell if VW continues this trajectory and drops the gas engine altogether
When I was in high school, my dad briefly considered a late-generation T2 or a diesel T3 when he was in the market for a large, second-hand, vehicle for family trips. He eventually settled on a loaded, one-owner, full-size '84 Chevy wagon with a diesel 350.
My dad bought a T3 diesel Vanagon. Your dad would NOT have wanted that POS.
It really really sucked. REALLY. It was the same diesel engine that VW put into the Rabbit and Dasher, so it was so very underpowered for the Vanagon. These were the old diesel technology engines, not the CRDs or TDIs, and so they smoked heavily. Behind the boxy Vanagon body, that black sooty smoke billowed badly.
He bought it new. I can imagine what the salesperson said to him at the point of sale, and I’m imagining lies, all lies and my dad got taken badly. Either that or he just made a terrible decision.
Those pictures hit Most Viral. I saw them on the front page last night.
Cool.
The Hyundai Santa Fe, a sterile design, especially when the owner does theirs this way: black and white, rear badge removed (SANTA FE), dark tint windows, black wheels, tires with no white lettering…
It’s the opposite of a blacked out Suburban/Tahoe.
When I saw it my first reaction was: sterile.
