Are the designers visually impaired or just lacking any artistic sensibilities? That is one of the ugliest vehicles I’ve ever seen.

you see the table he meets people at? that’s as close as anyone gets, except maybe the guy who test-eats his food to check for poison. unless a close advisor gets uber-bold and just as lucky to outrace Vlad’s bodyguards and puts a pencil through his brain, ain’t gonna happen.

if your kids had an opportunity to have a zillionaire parent-who wasn’t you-with more $$$ than sprinkles on all the world’s ice cream cones, would you deny them that?

I love cars and trucks and motorcycles - of all types. What I may not “like” I can still appreciate for its exploration of alternatives in design and engineering...but this abomination has no reason to exist. It’s a waste of time, money, material and attention and unusable as anything but a parade float.

...not before having your horn tuned, upgrading to radial windshield wiper blades and getting a mudflap alignment...

As a fan of MS-DOS who resisted the conversion to windows, I can tell you that it doesn’t end well.

gimme a six pack, a sawzall and an EBay account and I’ll salvage enough Lambo trinkets to cover the cost (of towing. maybe.)

I’m surprised no one charges for “headlight alignment”. Almost anyone can be convinced that their lights don’t shine where they think they should. A few minutes [depending on the car] of twiddling and cleaning can make enough of a difference that it seems to have value.

back in the day...my buddy and I drove a few hundred miles to pick up some parts at a specialty shop devoted to our particular taste in vehicles. They’d been up and running for a couple of years as a catalog business but weren’t prepared for walk-ins. Leading us through a garage and past a couple of storage sheds, the…

I think someone already tried that and called it a Samurai. Crucified by the safety nazis at Consumer Repots, it was nonetheless a competent and practical vehicle. Put over 100k on mine before passing it along.

Long roof, manual transmission, how did Tracy miss this one?

Watch “Little Miss Sunshine”. It’s where you stow uncle Alan Arkin.

I get it. Growing up in southern NY state, the ‘Joisy Tunpike’ was an on-ramp to somewhere special. Whether on my way to deliver a snowbird’s Buick to Boca Raton, visit a girlfriend studying at a Virginia college, or test a newly built Corvair engine on a trip to a convention in Minnesota, there was an adventure…

a friend of mine put 3-pipe exhaust tips on each side of a 1973 Capri with a single exhaust. You were unlikely to notice that only one pipe was blowing smoke since you already concluded that he was groping for attention with six pipes coming off his tail

while keeping in mind that much of what arrives here from overseas has already been in production somewhere for a while

depends on how high up you are...I once lived in a 14th floor apartment that had no screens and never needed them. Most bugs don’t fly that high.

that’s why you carry a shovel to fill the bed with snow and gain a few extra....tractions (?)

...with a clever fix, I’m sure, and a sly wink when suggesting a blinker fluid flush and an upgrade to radial wiper blades...

...and I only wish that I had the funds for a SportCross when I had to settle for a WRX wagon that -with responsible adult use- ate a clutch and two engines by 40,000 miles

The world would be better served by eliminating the rear doors on half the compact trucks and SUVs that are sold to people who lack both a need to carry rear passengers and any options in the marketplace.