@widgetsltd: Sorry. I was going by the time sheet, which sure looks like it says MKVII. IIRC, it was a Fox body with air suspension.

The part about the $500 Tercel winding up on an in-house financing lot for $3,500 rings quite true. I wonder if the huge percentage of their victims who have their cars repo'd realize they paid more up front than it was worth?

My best friend's dad had a 1985 LeSabre with the V6. It might as well have not had an engine at all. We were going to road trip to the beach in the Buick once. Idiot lights on the dash told us to stop before we'd left town. The same thing happened when we were going to drive it to Old Dominion University. Not the…

@widgetsltd: That would have been the MKVIII. The MKVII was powered by the good old 302. Long live the LSC.

Not just a Blazer but a RWD Blazer. Those were pretty rare even when new.

This was an inside job perpetrated by Charlie Sheen to further an agenda that will become clear in the weeks to come. The 'truth' is out there!

@LBJ's Love Child: Thanks, but you scared the heck out of me. If today were Valentine's Day, I'd lose my standing as not a horrible boyfriend.

Seems odd seeing bare carbon fiber used in a car that weighed more than a truck. I'd say strip it to a shell and repower it with an LS7 and RWD transaxle, but the ugly truth is that a stock Z06 would still be a better, lighter track car.

Looks like a Lotus Exige that needs to go on a diet.

I followed F1 religiously from 1976 to 2006, and I think I can answer this. Reason one is that most races are on while we're asleep. Replayed sporting events are only for the obsessed. Reason number two, and this is a big one, is that formula 1 has devolved into complete crap. It is soccer on wheels now.…

I'll never forgive him for including the Ford Model T in his list of 50 worst cars that he compiled for Time magazine. He blamed it for our freedom, which he thinks is a travesty, and he lied about the quality of its construction. It wasn't the "Yugo of its day," it was the Accord of the day. It was the one car on the…

Back when BMW made good cars, a guy in my BMW CCA chapter had a pre-lawsuit Westfield. It looked just like a Lotus 7 S3. He drove it to a meeting one cold winter without the tent up and with his wife riding shotgun. He wasn't a small man. I can't help but to think that this car's carpeted interior might be the…

I've had my Honda for 3 years and it has been to the dealer for oil changes and...that is it. They rotated the tires once. It was only about a month ago that I finally wrapped my mind around the idea that I don't have to check the oil when I buy gas. 20+ years of US and German cars had me trained to check the fluids…

This is our idea of trendiness? Of course it is. Every change made to the look of the 911 has been the result of whatever the fad of the age it is being sold in for lack of a better idea. Fender flares? Check. Big bumpers? Check. Huge attention grabbing air intakes? Check. Rubber band tires on bling rims? Check. It…

@KeyserSöze - Professional Blog Commenter: It's like when you're having sex with some great looking girl at a fraternity party and she throws up on you just as you're about to achieve bliss.

@Northernsky: What kind of car did you have?

@The Dead Inside Grp. Co. Ltd.: That is also what Netherlands license plates looked like when I lived there. As for French bad taste, have you seen their cars? New Citroen C6s and Renaults look worse than that on the dealer's lots!

@LBJ's Love Child: It is still early days.

@The Dead Inside Grp. Co. Ltd.: Ironincally, judging by the surroundings in the photo above, the car used for this story is a Mexican Focus RS.

Marlboro may have been tiny, but it was also the closest thing you'll see to vintage pony cars competing at rallycross. Extremely wonderful!