The LT1 makes it more powerful, more reliable (if done well) and more depreciated. It seems like just yesterday you could pick one of these up for half a cheese sandwich a ride in to town.

Bent rear axle beam on my ‘08 Cobalt commuter for several reasons.

These chrome fender trim pieces. Especially with today’s wrap-around bumper covers.

Some way it was like driving a jackhammer to work.

I still like how GM chose to talk about GMC precision while playing Eminence Front in the background. A song about fancy people putting up facades to hide their flaws and live life in ignorant bliss.. This whole “steel is better” thing is just another front.

“I own a couple of new car dealerships”

1st Gear: So, where’d C&D get their numbers and why are they different?

127,000 km. or ~80,000 miles.

Rage-o-meter. Use cameras to scan the faces of nearby drivers. Display on a numbered dial form 0-100 to indicate the chances of someone nearby flying into n uncontrollable and dangerous fit of road rage.

I’d like to see the long pedal mashed to the floor. I’d bet the front spins like, well a front wheel drive, 200 hp car at full throttle. Can you imagine the craziness behind the wheel of a car that has both the acceleration of RWD and the loss of front-end traction (and steering) of a FWD car?

I’d be much more inclined to give this a NP nod if they had dumped the front motor had just made it a mid-engine RWD conversion. As it is, A Rube Goldberg Crack Pipe.

Except that there are valid reasons to live in one state and have plates and license from another. Military, for one. Multiple residences, another.

Yup. I’ve driven that road from Olympia to LA and (in the Summer especially) you spend 90% of your time crawling along behind the Gornicke family.

The route from Las Vegas to Seattle using the high-desert and mountain roads: 95-395-139-97. Partial list of things you’ll see: Everything in Vegas, the high desert, The Thunderbird’s practice field (Creech AFB) and Home base (Nellis AFB), NAS Fallon (where Top Gun now resides) Pre-war auto graveyards, brothels, a…

He’s also missing that GM will have access to you browsing/searching/watching/buying habits and yet another entity will be selling your information to every Nigerian prince on the planet.

FastestSelling != InDemand.

Previous owners will do some crazy stuff. From guys with fantastic ideas that other people don't see as such, to cheapskates who bolt on whatever mirror they could pull from a junker in the back 40, to idiots who use longer bolts and a stack over-sized nuts to lower their car. You pick up a car that's been around…

Politics.

Interesting trivia: there is (or at least was) an autographed picture of Micael Dorn on the wall in there from when he flew his (at the time) F-86 Sabre to Nellis in the '90s.

Callaway Sledgehammer. 898 horsepower stuffed into a bucket of 1980's technology that was originally designed to handle less than 300 hp.