Not Cool, Not Cheap Still Cars.


So, you whine, CCC hasn't posted a damn thing in weeks. Is the blog dead? Should I not bother to subscribe? Why should I care, you ask yourself.

Perhaps that's the point. There aren't exactly 365 cool, cheap cars to post about everyday. You'll even notice that this cool cheap car here, the VeeDub - is about 50 years old, and, when you pimp it out like this - there's nothing cheap about it. Plus, it's from the 2005 SEMA show, so not really fresh news either.

So that's the thing - there really aren't any cool cheap cars at the moment. The Wrangler's always alright, and I don't totally hate the four-banger Fusion, with 5-speed. But at 18K plus TLR, it's not all that cheap. The Focus is too old to matter. The Scions are for a very specific group of people, who, perhaps also like obnoxious music, baseball caps and rice. What's left, you ask? Used car heaven, another VW - for 3 grand, on our best friend - eBay. A cool car with no design, heater or pretense - the Thing. The thing is everything you wand and nothing you don't. Plus, it's got all the appeal of the Wrangler - without the newly-added power windows, which are for lamers anyway. It's basic transportation at its best.