SX4? Bah, go get a nice clean Swift GT!

Yeah, I almost voted NP without reading down because it was so clean under the hood. No AC might not be a big deal, but rust could be huge and description doesn’t sound good. It’s a close call—this is one I might deem NP when I looked it over or run away screaming. Or talk the owner down $1000.

You can keep the MangeRide dampers...

What do you mean by that exactly? A 940 is hardly small, but still weighs less than 3,200 lbs and therefore still substantially less than most modern cars outside of the compact segment.

I would go a few steps further. Put the larger wheels from a turbo on it, or something even bigger with good tires, that way it will accelerate even more slowly but have better grip. It should also have a minor one-way (mainly small amount of oil in coolant vs. the other way) headgasket leak due to super high mileage…

The RedBull giveth and the RedBull taketh away...

Argh. I guess I might be in the minority, but I really liked the i8. Enough that I don’t think it’s so easy to “facelift”. I suppose I’ll wait till I see some other angles—no, no, they ruined it. :(

Was waiting for this. I love me some turbo Volvos, but add the turbo and all that jazz about reliability goes out the window, plus much harder to fix when it breaks. Just one example: makes a headgasket job %200 more likely to be needed while you own it, while also making it %200 more difficult to do because now you…

Indeed, and it’s the comment that really proves the point. Cop might as well have said, “I have no capacity for logical analysis or lucid communication but I do have a weird inferiority complex and poor risk management skills. I do have a badge, however, and I am about to ruin your fucking day because I feel like it,…

4 feet is plenty if someone randomly stops in the middle of the road, plus I believe the driver could have stopped much shorter still in a panic stop with more drama (ABS invoked etc..) leaving a full car length or more.

Duh. What’s wrong with these other people?

Are y’all kidding? Last time I lived in Michigan I was pretty excited to find there was a whole section of the paper devoted to cars $500 or less and intended for sacrifice to the gods of road salt. Sure these beaters DO have rust, but so does everything in MI that isn’t a garage queen.

How about this one: My mother calls me to tell me that her car was stolen and taken on a cross country crime spree. She lives in Michigan, I live in California. The car is now impounded in California and is accruing storage fees daily and can I pick it up? I do, and because it is newer and ostensibly more reliable…

I’d tell you, but then I’d have to kill you.

The tough part here is that a regulatory strategy based on testing is far more complex and expensive than simply viewing all modification as “tampering”. I agree with you, but it’s going to be hard to sell voters on what amounts to a tax increase in the name of fairness to the few tuners that are able to modify…

You read the research... Everybody else appears to be talking out their asses. New trucks are better than old trucks, but, as a driver of a Geo—Metro-like car, trucks from the same era are no better than my econobox (rollover rollover rollover) and midsize to large cars are always statistically the safest vehicles.

I’ll concede that you may be right, but I believe the costs were cut across the board. It’s possible everyone else liked they way they looked, but my biggest issue with them is that they looked and were laid out like hideous tiny SUVs. Give me a Neon any day. My opinions are unlikely to reflect the general public’s,…

You know, I think this might be true because if you are going exactly the average, you stay in “clumps” of traffic, while if you occasionally go a bit faster to gain some space you can give yourself more time to react. Totally unsubstantiated speculation, but that’s what I do...

True, but that assumes that a significant number of people are speeding. If you really enforce the limit strictly and everyone goes the artificially low speed limit, the accident and fatality rates will go down. I’m not saying we should do this, just that it’s true. We should all also drive body-on-frame SUVs…

Clearly, 55 is not enough. Lower the national speed limit to 35! Think of the thousands of lives we would save!