I'm not sure I understand the

"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem) 05/27/2015 at 12:45 • Filed to: None

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brown diesel manual wagon obsession. Admittedly I do not like smell or sounds of a diesel engine so I am somewhat biased. But there’s a rainbow of colors and body styles to choose from. #yesallthecars.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > CalzoneGolem 05/27/2015 at 12:48

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I think it’s a cross between a joke and the forbidden fruit thing. I quite like diesel for some purposes but I don’t exactly lust for one, having owned both petrol and diesel. I do like wagons a lot though.

William Byrd > CalzoneGolem 05/27/2015 at 12:48

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I don’t either. At least the brown, diesel part. I think brown likely b/c it’s different, same for diesel perhaps?

I get the manual wagon bit. I didn’t use to get wagons, but the older I get, they just make sense.

Jcarr > CalzoneGolem 05/27/2015 at 12:48

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I love the smell of diesel exhaust. Seriously one of my favorite smells.

For Sweden > CalzoneGolem 05/27/2015 at 12:48

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Love needs no reason to exist, it just does

Hermann > CalzoneGolem 05/27/2015 at 12:53

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I think it’s more of a satire of things that are considered uncool. The opposite of the obvious choice.

Brown is an “old” color. The choice of people who wear tweed, smoke pipes and live in victorian houses.

Diesel is the uncool choice, the lazy, stinky engine that sounds like a broken washing machine.

Wagon is the car we grew up to think of as mom’s car, the people carrier and utilitarian.

Manuals aren’t necessarily uncool, but it’s regarded as the old fashioned option, the thing that must die.

Kind of the opposite of a red V12 Ferrari Coupé with a DCT.

CalzoneGolem > Jcarr 05/27/2015 at 12:54

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Gross. I could smell petrol and petrol all day though.

CalzoneGolem > William Byrd 05/27/2015 at 12:55

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I’ve got nothing against a brown diesel wagon. I just don’t think it’s the end all.

BigBlock440 > CalzoneGolem 05/27/2015 at 12:55

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Brown is a seriously underused color. I think the manual thing is self explanatory. Station wagons could be cool. That combines all three into a “perfect jalop car”, basically a car designed by focus groups, where the focus group is Jalopnik.

CalzoneGolem > For Sweden 05/27/2015 at 12:55

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Your love is not pure.

CalzoneGolem > BigBlock440 05/27/2015 at 12:59

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Usually a brown diesel wagon is a shitty track day car but a great long distance mile muncher. I find people around here seem more interested in hitting apexes (whatever that means) and having terribly uncomfortable suspension mods.

For Sweden > CalzoneGolem 05/27/2015 at 12:59

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What true love is?

CalzoneGolem > Hermann 05/27/2015 at 12:59

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So BDMW is the Jalop hipster mobile?

CalzoneGolem > For Sweden 05/27/2015 at 13:00

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Waymoe.

Ash78, voting early and often > CalzoneGolem 05/27/2015 at 13:01

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All of those things are like 1% offerings in the US. I’m no mathemagician, but getting them all is a way of having something approachable, yet super rare, all at the same time.

Sir Halffast > CalzoneGolem 05/27/2015 at 13:01

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Also, it’s the most uniquely unique of the unique. Sort of an automotive unicorn. That shits diesel rainbows.

For Sweden > CalzoneGolem 05/27/2015 at 13:01

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This love is between me and a car, not me and a deity.

BigBlock440 > CalzoneGolem 05/27/2015 at 13:01

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Yes.

Svend > CalzoneGolem 05/27/2015 at 13:01

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I don’t know, some brown diesel manual wagons look pretty good.

green works better though

AM > CalzoneGolem 05/27/2015 at 13:02

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My car is brown and diesel but it’s not manual or a wagon. Plus I didn’t buy it just because those options are a Jalop/Oppo favourite. Diesel engines sound like a bag of wrenches being shaken up but mine gets remarkable mileage (average of 52-56mpg) and I picked brown because, well VW brown is nice:

(Not my own car)

CalzoneGolem > Ash78, voting early and often 05/27/2015 at 13:05

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It all checks out.

CalzoneGolem > For Sweden 05/27/2015 at 13:06

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Wherever there is, Waymoe is there.

CalzoneGolem > BigBlock440 05/27/2015 at 13:07

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Thanks you’ve cleared this all up for me.

CalzoneGolem > Svend 05/27/2015 at 13:07

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I’m not saying you shouldn’t have a brown diesel wagon but you should have the green one.

CalzoneGolem > AM 05/27/2015 at 13:08

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That is undeniably a nice brown.

Svend > CalzoneGolem 05/27/2015 at 13:13

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Some look great in any colour making it very hard to decide.

Here’s my next baby

duurtlang > CalzoneGolem 05/27/2015 at 13:15

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It’s not the end all. And this is coming from someone with a manual diesel wagon in grey. It’s a company car I didn’t pick myself. It is, however, the most rational choice for most mainstream automotive uses. Excluding the brown part, obviously.

I also own a green RWD manual straight six gasoline powered wagon (BMW E30), which is less fun to drive than my 105 hp FWD 1980s icon. I do think it’s the best looking E30 version though.

duurtlang > CalzoneGolem 05/27/2015 at 13:19

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Ignore the brown. Skip the diesel part if you live in the US due to the comically cheap gasoline.

Having said all that, any next car for me will be either a convertible (because no roof), coupe (because style), or wagon (because practicality). And maybe a hatchback for a subcompact or smaller. These bodystyles are just superior to sedans and CUVs.

By the way, modern diesel engines don’t smell.

CalzoneGolem > duurtlang 05/27/2015 at 13:50

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Gasoline is cheap here and much cheaper than diesel.

I think my next car will be a truck.

And don’t talk to me like I don’t know what a modern diesel smells like! You can tell the difference between the two.

CalzoneGolem > duurtlang 05/27/2015 at 13:50

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Sometimes you just have to let your freak flag fly.

TheTick247 > CalzoneGolem 05/27/2015 at 14:26

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heretic!

CalzoneGolem > TheTick247 05/27/2015 at 14:27

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Down with the Holy Miata!

Kanaric > CalzoneGolem 05/27/2015 at 17:46

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It’s just dumb silly memetalk here, nobody here wants to buy it. Some people who are hipster inclined want to be perceived as possibly buying one though.