The Calais was "Come On, Dammit!" (typically spoken at highway on-ramps and other situations that required a reasonable degree of acceleration). The Saturn quickly became "Uranus" for reasons that are probably pretty obvious. The Frontier is still name-less, 2.5 years later.
Seriously, who wouldn't spend over $100K for an off-roader with 1980s Italian build quality? Forget scaring the pants off of the soccermilfs at practice. No, the real jackpot comes when using it as intended. The grunt of that V12 helping you over any obstacle in your way, the ever-present threat of the torque…
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@Mobius_1:
@Ash78:
The summer after I graduated college and moved back home to save expenses, my mother insisted I come up with a plan for my life, at least in the immediate future. What I came up with was batshit, completely impossible and, 11 years later, far more farcical than even I realized.
There's an Argentinian-built, Mexican/Columbian-Market Peugeot 206 that keeps hitting the local craigslist every couple of weeks. The price keeps dropping, though they still want $3000, which is optimistic considering it's knocking on the door of 100K miles and isn't exactly titleable here. And I'm sure the tale of…
It's nice to see that they're as good at driving as they are officiating and determining tech specs.