it’s got cop tires, cop shocks, cop brakes, cop cupholders

one reason that I don’t see offered as to why someone would “buy” one of these new instead of an objectively better used car is that they can be leased. Leases don’t work out better than a carefully planned buy, but they do when circumstances fit: a need to preserve cash for another use (we bought a house), use…

if so, that would likely have been due to one renegade engineer who strayed from the corporate mantra of planned obsolescence and was probably flogged and reassigned to designing ashtray mounting brackets

the problem with Musou, Vantablack or any finish that denys light an opportunity to reflect is that once it’s scratched, all you’ll see is the scratch. A few years accumulation and your ‘patina’ will be a mass of tiny nicks and random scratches on a car-shaped silhouette

Well said. Note that some dead end tracks of evolutionary of chassis development included things like the Guidobaldi of 1939 that stuck with skinny tires, but added an active suspension with wild camber variability to keep the body mass level while the wheels maintained contact patches that rolled up one sidewall and…

My last three cars were a 2005 Outback, which had terrific outward visibility and a 2013 Veloster turbo and a 2017 BMW X4, which were both good at doing what they did, but truly awful at outward views. That’s why I’m now driving a Mini Countryman, which has better visibility than those or anything I cross-shopped.

...with a 6 carb version of the Corvair engine...

I did one of these ten years ago. It was a groupon deal, so I booked one for my 15 year old daughter as well, not realizing that we’d be flying separate planes at the same time. We live near a small airport, and I’ve always complained about the noise, but flying above my neighborhood, with my daughter in sight and…

...and the guy bought it from a retired Ford engineer who knew the codes for all of the secret parts installed during his custom factory build...

...might you simply be infringing on someone else’s patented, copyrighted and trademarked way to present a hobo bludgeoning? you might need a lawyer either way. my firm’s been representing hobo bludgeoners, bum rushers and shiftless drifter discouragers for more than a fortnight come tuesday. please contact us at your…

my sister drove a 1971 Vega....park it in the garage, turn off the radio and any electrical appliances in the room...and you could hear it rust...

As a retired transportation planner tasked with routing those 60' beasts and squeezing them into bus stops designed for shorter craft, I can assure you that calling them articulated buses is standard usage...it was only on Top Gear that I heard Richard Hammond call them “bendy buses”...but he also calls French toast…

so...in a vote for the black sheep and seldom-mentioned, I can’t say I’ve ever been more impressed than by John Cusack’s limo-swerving/jumping chase in 2012....but maybe I’m just so in love with an arrogant [president’s chief of staff-not an arrogant president-Danny Glover was anything but] getting socked in the face…

...I have this image.....of a car spinning gravel, a tongueless moose chasing his detached appendage...

...and much more like a real car

you fail to consider that we yanks who grew up in the 1960's and 70's, have images of Blackpool cultivated by a decade of references by Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull

not wrong at all....but they were all pretty slick...I remember when the trio of “diamond-star” turbos, particularly the top shelf AWD models, were perennial picks for Car and Drivers top 10 list..

So how much less Should I have to pay for a car delivered in flat gray primer?

Several years back, I had the misfortune of renting a Canadian market Captiva, a vehicle that didn’t seem to correlate with anything GM was selling in the states.

Damn, same thing happened to me, TWICE. Starting to smell like a conspiracy involving the auto industry, the banks and the gravity cartel