These old Quattroportes are rather schizoid cars - old-school luxury ride and handling from a time when the luxury sports concept wasn't really accepted yet by the buyers of top-tier luxury sedans, but paired with a high-revving, temperamental sportscar engine.

You can still make money off uncommon sizes if the asking price is high enough. And there's some really big wallets involved in vintage racing...

That was back when the looks of a man weren't judged mostly by women - because what man would base his personal style on a woman's judgment - but by fellow men. Not in a homoerotic way, it was just that many, many dudes looked like that back then, and they all pretty much agreed that this was how a man should ideally…

Not gonna lie, I do sometimes pine for the "old days". Those old days being the 90s, however. You could get all those sweet 80s cars with their fuel injections and vastly imprved reliability for a pittance and gas was oh so cheap... Yeah, sure, compared to today, the cars were dog slow and had lousy long-term quality,…

We've sure come a long way. My first foray into sporty motoring was a '79 Camaro Z28 - not exactly a car feared for its complexity and capriciousness - which I bought in the late 80s. I sold it not much later because the good ol' Quadrajet was absolutely maddening when it got out of whack, which it did reliably every…

I can see why Mazda have been reluctant to do so, though. The fact that Miatas have such docile engines has to be a big factor in their success beyond the hardcore sports driver crowd. The fact that it's just as easy to drive as an average commuter car.

She clearly doesn't get the STi, but she does admittedly leave some room for those who do in the article's conclusion, saying "if you're someone whose own pleasure were it's own justification" it might just be the car for you - which is a fair assessment of STi buyers, I think. People who like what they like and make…

"We used to make things in this country" - and, thanks to people like Wilson Kemp, we do again! Truck Nutz, representing classic American virtues in a globalized world.

It's supposed to be like that. Don't forget, it took engineers some time to find out about the virtues of the negative camber curve. Which only really works with radial tires anyway.

That must have made for some sweet cornering! I guess it was what you'd call a "momentum car".

Yeah, that's a photoshop that our esteemed author made, which you'd know if you'd read the article.

I think the younger buyers that make up Fiat's target group remembers less of that stigma than one might think. It certainly seems like the lackluster sales of the 500 here in NA have less to do with the Fiat badge and more with the car being not very well suited for the US market.

Nice! Is is just a visual clone, or did you upgrade the drivetrain/suspension as well? Either way, looks bad as hell with that flat black hood with the double bumps!

How unreliable would it be though? They'd most likely build it Japan right alongside the Miata, because everything else just wouldn't make sense economically, so general build quality should be Mazda level which has never been bad. The MultiAir engines so far have a track record as being pretty reliable afaik, so…

Well, yeah. If you'd rather just throw up your hands and say "I'm not exposed, what can I do", that's fine for you, I guess. But don't expect people to be nice and understanding if you can't be bothered to get informed. I mean, it has literally never been easier than today to read everything from deeply personal…

That's because you don't have to deal with it everyday, which is, as another commenter pointed out, textbook white privilege. Not to be mean, but I don't see how you're adding to the discussion here. It's nice for you and me that we don't have to deal with this shit, but it's not something anybody gives a shit about,…

Ok, but how does that relate to my point and this supposed "need for amnesia" Annalee brings up here?

Well, if your replica has all that you truly went the extra mile!

I bet you get a lot of mileage out of a quality bluesmobile replica like that. Well, not actual mileage because that thing probably barely gets double digits. But it's a hit at every con, you'll chauffeur a lot of your friends at their weddings, if nothing else it's probably fun to just cruise around in.

Yeah, Annalee's articles are often enlightening, and she has a good handle on many social issues. However, whenever she writes about race, things become... odd. She often does this thing where she tries to tie racial issues into some other thing, which ignores the fact that racial prejudice/hate is perhaps the single…