AAAAAAAAAH! I drive one of those!

Just like yesterday, I love the car, hate the price. Only yesterday I feared the price might be justified, so I am sort of pleased so many disagreed with me. Today though, I love the car less and hate the price more.

I had no idea they weren’t more similar. I admit I have not driven a GLH, but I did drive an especially crappy clapped out Plymout Horizon. It had pathetic power, but was neutral at the limit, and grippy enough considering the tires. Whatever you might say about them they do not understeer like pigs like most FWD…

OK I’m the crackhead that voted NP. I didn’t want to because I do like this car, but I would hate to pay this much. On the other hand I believe these have genuine collector value. These handled better than one might think (they are really Matras, remember) and were likely a blast to drive. Maybe not very fast by…

The extent to which you are correct is such that I agree with you even thought I own a similar car from the same era that I like better. Anyone who has ever autocrossed with SCCA knows what a rare miracle the suspension engineering is on those cars. Like a hovering bumblebee, the EF Civic can be easily tuned to…

I am familiar with your reasoning for not putting a race seat and harness in a street car, but who’s running the numbers? What is the probability of a rollover accident severe enough to compromise your head space vs. the added safety of a race harness in a frontal impact? I agree with the basic logic, but all I can…

That’s awesome, thank you. Looks like the problem is still really the steering wheel. Better wear a helmet all the time...

What’s the mpg equivalent? You don’t mention this, but maybe the breakthrough here is in efficiency. It doesn’t have to be new technology for incremental improvements in engineering to be worthwhile.

You are certainly correct about the first generation of airbag-equipped vehicles, in which the use case for airbags was pretty much to protect the morons that wouldn’t wear them. Unfortunately I believe modern cars are pretty much a “system” with just the right amount of stretch in the seat belts and give in anchor…

I think I’m with Illegal Machine here, mostly. Sure it’s not “unique” in that no car is unique. Even cars with three wheels or no windshield share many other features with every other car. Critiquing a design is a subjective exercise and saying the car is “unique” is a reasonable way to say you think it doesn’t look…

Indeed. The problems with this Merc will be costly and painful to fix. I just bought a nasty minivan running on 4 out of 6 cylinders for $300. A bad deal for the mechanically disinclined for sure, but another $300, 2 new fuel injectors, a starter and a little sweat later, I’ve got ugly, reliable transportation for 8.

These are tough cars.

I’m only really pointing out that the riding experience is subjective.

Or riding value? I’m glad you like your Goldwing grandpa, but you have no idea what you are talking about. It’s definitely unsafe, even by the standards of it’s day, and that means it’s fast as screaming hell, screw the numbers. There is nothing like the sound and smell of a two stroke mill at full song. If you grow a…

Oh my Gawd I love this bike!!!! Oh my Gawd that’s too much $$$. I don’t care how nice it is I can’t imagine you couldn’t find plenty of examples near this condition for WAAAAAY less. I want it tho.... This is the kind of sale that makes me want to taunt and ridicule the current owner, waiting until he comes to his…

I’m just going to repost this with a little editing, as the subject has been recycled a couple of times already on Jalopnik:

The implications of “certification” are what we should be concerned about here. I believe what’s really going on is that the EPA wishes to move away from dyno-and-sniffer tests as a means of enforcement because these tests are not uniform, do no reflect the real world (and can be cheated, reference current VW…

That is not a Festiva, which was a great car for it’s segment, it is an Aspire, at least that’s what they sold them as in the US, which was a rebadged Kia and a truly terrible car. Here’s a Yugo on a stick in Kentucky. That’s hell.

I am sympathetic to your point of view, but you could say the same about seatbelts.

Chains?