This one won Paris-Dakar a few times.

Yeah, the cool type of gearhead.

Lancia Fulvia. At the time, as expensive as an E-Type. One car was defined by it’s shape and got worse as time took it’s toll, the other by engineering excellence and only got better as time progressed.

You could get a Bentley for the money of this Lancia Aurelia B20 GT.

And why would a low-speed rollover set off airbags?

yes but to keep the entire process firmly rooted in edwardian times, they use tiny, slow, screeching dotmatrix printers.

Yeah but only because the French are the only people we see use cheques on a regular basis.

Old ones weren’t exactly big either.

We don’t do checks anymore over here. Checks are unsafe and inefficient. It’s either cash, debit card, or bank transfer.

If you can’t look around when cycling, you have no business being on a bike.

That is what your bicycle ideally looks like. These things don’t need a ‘1 hour tuneup’. They need a bit of love every year. They have mudflaps and full fenders and a covered chain so they can be used year round. They are stable and comfortable and don’t mess up your nice trousers.

Neutral

If you just use your car to transport your trailer and your canoe, you like canoeing and your trailer, not your car. Given the weight distribution in the pic, you don’t like your car.

Seeing the rest of the reactions, all the idiots I’m going to have to share the road with will probably kill me if I drive around in anything less than something with a few inches of armor plating.

Protip, cars usually have a smooth surface, so you can really crank the ISO’s and trust the noise reduction algorithms to save your ass.

It may have been a future classic if it debuted in the 80’s. But this hunk of shit debuted in 2003. The internet bubble had already burst by then. It is 3 years newer than the Nokia 3310. You could buy smartphones in 2003, with apps and shit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_660…

While the price is probably a good reflection of the rarity and effort that went in to maintain it, and the ride is probably sublime as well, but I couldn’t justify spending that much on something that half-assed from the factory. Welds from lengthening doors? Vinyl top because paint cracks? I just couldn’t get over…

Haha oh wow I completely missed your article. I meant that Alissa’s article was just spiteful.

The Aztek is part of car culture. It was promising, innovative, foreshadowing, and an abject market failure due to a variety of reasons.

That... was much better than the previous Kinja article on the Peterson Museum, thank you.