I’d love to tour the Great Lakes; see each one from the driver’s seat of a Subaru SVX. 

I kinda want to see them test one of those, too, for science. 

Especially Gettysburg!  Never Forget!

4M9 (Cashmere Beige Metallic), was notorious for paint fade. What’s worse, the paint fade was not uniform depending on the material it was painted on. The plastic bumper covers would fade agressively, hence why they don’t match as the car ages.

I saw one at the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix back in July. Such a strange car.

Here ya go.

Unrelated yet related: I saw this the other day...

The parking light thing changed starting with the SH.

Not sure where Ken is originally from (maybe it’s Japan), but these were known as the Vortex in Australia and New Zealand, which is kind of close to Cyclone. Maybe he was thinking of that?

Can we get an east coast companion show next year? Pretty please?

Why stop at beverages?

They tried that in the 2010-2012 model years; nobody bought them.

These were always V8s, as far as I remember; ‘03-’04 used the LM4 5.3L Vortec with ~290 hp, while ‘05-’06 used the LS2 and had between 390hp and 400hp depending on the version.

Go old school and replace the glass with a solid steel panel?

They stopped after the 2012 model year.

Speaking of which, I saw this in July.

The Passat died in the US with the end of the B5.5.

I don’t doubt that...

I’d hate to be a Saturn-SAAB-Isuzu dealer circa 2009...

I believe they also used some 1959 Edsel parts (such as marker lights and interior trim pieces), complete with Edsel part numbers for the ‘60 model year.