I love it. I hope it's cheap and oversteery.
MarionCobretti
MarionCobretti
@AllenK:
@amblito:
200,000 miles!?
Subie Impreza (non-WRX). The flat four sounds like hell anyway. AWD and a wave of turbodiesel torque would make winter commuting fun.
@Maymar:
I saw one of these a little while back, at a shady used car lot out near our local Air Force base. It was only in marginally better shape then this one. And it looks like they've come down to $1,495 from their original asking price of $2,895.
If I was going to have a preposterously expensive one-off prewar car that looked like the batmobile, I'd want the Count Trossi SSK. I voted yes, but I'd just as gladly vote for this car's execution the next time we need to thin the herd.
Other than the Caliber, I can't think of anything currently made here that would do worth a damn. Along the lines of the Omni GLHS, but a little newer, how about a later Dodge Daytona with a hopped up version of the 224 horse Turbo III? Although a lot of succesful rally cars are FWD, one could also install the AWD…
People were bitching about the new Challenger's interior being boring and plasticky, but this is worse. Featureless flat gray door panels, and an expanse of shiny black plastic on the dash just doesn't do it for me.
A lot of people might also upgrade the stock wheel and tire package and put on bigger brakes (usually recommended steps when quadrupling a car's stock power output), but this fellow doesn't subscribe to such conventional wisdom.
@lusnia:
@SoNaive:
Also (and I'm sorry to keep harping on Lincoln), but a base Ford Edge is $25,870 after destination charge adn rebate. A loaded Lincoln MKX? $45,895.00. Badge engineering at its very finest.
@dearyou:
Looks like my imbedded image HTML skills could use some brushing up. Anyway, here's the shameful total.
Considering that you can buy year-old examples with 15K on the clock all day for 20 grand (and that's if you don't feel like haggling) I'm going to say that 56K for a friggin' Panther platform Lincoln Town Car is outrageous.