Was all this worth the .02% increase in consumer spending last month? An increase that will likely be offset by a larger decrease in the coming months, because of all those people who only bought their new cars earlier than originally planned?

Wow; if I had a nickel for every time I saw one of those scoops on a car back in the day...

That was worth watching twice! As an old Hudson once said, "Turn left to go right."

I'd say Kevin has some anger issues that are not being dealt with in a healthy way. What do you think, doctor?

@Lynxfx: Success? If you count blowing $3 billion of borrowed money on a program of questionable effectiveness successful, then I guess you're right.

Worried about depletion of funding? What about saving the earth? Don't those evil bureaucrats care?

Did it have the padlock & chain for securing the door too?

@underwear-ninja: I thought the same. I drove an '81 Charger 024 and that was a great bare-bones car.

@Super Traction Engine: Insurance cost can vary huge amounts depending on where you live. A friend moved here (Sioux Falls, SD) from somewhere in CA and the auto insurance rates for his family dropped by over half. Not exactly a solution for many, but there are definitely benefits to living somewhere other than a…

@TurboRefrigerator: Shouting "Hey y'all! Watch this!" is a reasonable substitute for that.

It's still money down a hole. Perfectly good vehicles getting their engines trashed, the cars dismantled, and an average of $4200 of taxpayer funds going POOF. Seems like perfect nonsense to me, which is par for the course for this Congress.

The '77 Pontiac Can Am also had a shaker hood. That's always been one of my favorite malaise-era cars.

Nutjob? My brain wants to say something witty about the fine line separating the nutjob from the genius, but all I can think is, "Wow! Cool!"

Yo mama is so fat, she takes one look at the Burger King menu and says, "yup, that'll do."

BMW e28, preferably a 535. And it's gotta be a 5-speed.

@TimTim [Minardi]: The weight of all those creature comforts really adds up.

@Mobius_1000_Club: Too true about the diving boards bumpers. The euro versions of the e28 were much easier on the eyes in that regard.

@FormerlyPreferredCustomer: The M5's can be spendy in the maintenance, but the answer to that is the M535 with has most all the handling goodies of the M5, but uses the M30 engine instead of the M5's DOHC powerplant. Not as much HP, but still very quick and very maintainable and very modifiable. Lots of people stick…

The single tailpipe nails this as a 528e, most likely.

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