If Fisker doesn't lose access to the US treasury, they'll eventually build a 2-seat sports car with no trunk that's longer, wider, and heavier than a school bus. Fisker has set packaging efficiency back eighty years.

I think it is an optical illusion. The seam at the bottom is horizontal and just above the rocker panel. The seam at the top is probably just washed out by the photograph. Camaro fenders are available online for little more than a hundred bucks.

If Hardigree wasn't just pretending to be motorsports fan, or he'd recall all the race delays in recent years that Formula 1 commits whenever it is doing anything more than misting out. He was probably a bully magnet in his youth and resents any activity popular with men that don't shape their eyebrows.

As a thumbnail, it looked like an RX-7. Shouldn't have blown up the image.

Yes its an odd ad for a long in the tooth car with advertising weirdo written all over it. Still, it isn't as bad as the Lincoln MKZ ad that starts out like a Viagra commercial.

Had I been LBJ, I'd have had a Lincoln Continental convertible too. One of them played a starring role in making him President, after all. Considering what an amazingly awful President he was, I might not enjoy seeing these cars as much due to writing this post.

It still weighs more than almost any gas engine. Swapping in a 750+ lb engine with 105 hp and 265 ft/lbs seems like a long climb for a short slide.

If at least one of them doesn't comment on that seemingly immaculate E28 sitting on a pile of soon-to-be-shredded scrap, they're not my type of car guys.

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Financial catastrophes should happen to EV proponents. Poetic justice of the highest order.

Toyota's RAV4 NiMH battery tech was bought and buried, at least for any vehicle that doesn't get all of its energy from petroleum. They're still used in Priuses, but they're banned from plug in vehicles. The new Prius Plug-In has to use Lithium Ion batteries even though the regular one still uses the batteries that…

It's interesting that the envy of the unwashed has been successfully directed into the class warfare narrative instead of singling out these individuals for who they actually are. Brainwashing works.

Piling on to someone being singled out for idiocy on a car-lowering forum is pretty much the same thing as being a bully at the Special Olympics.

I don't recall the engine being the problem for Autoweek. They were upset about lack of body rigidity and things falling off or failing.

1989 was pretty late in the game to make a mass market car that still needed specialist knowledge to keep running. Most German cars lasted longer here than just about anywhere else at the time, perhaps due to a combination of their value to American buyers and our relative lack of full-throttle highway travel.

It really wasn't slow for the day. The problem was you could pay much less for an RX-7 that was just as quick and 'coincidentally' looked the same. The 280Z was a shadow of its former self and seemed really old by the time the 924 came around, and then the 280ZX wasn't a sports car. It wasn't until the similarly…

Or Kevin Costner.

Which two cars?

What exactly was in its class? CLK? Best car in a class of maybe two! They should have used it in ads.

The car in the ad is an Audi 100LS. They had inboard front brakes that traded heat with the transaxle and combined a short service life with expensive and involved replacement in addition to all of the usual Audi quality issues. As for the Fox and its VW Dasher twin, the vast majority of owners had awful experiences.…