LeCar, there was one of these parked for sale in my hometown once when I was around 8-10 years old. My great-grandpa was going to buy it to be MY car to drive around our acreage. Sadly, he passed before getting it bought. Also love the Mark V here, and have had an inkling to buy one lately. I’m more of a Cadillac guy,…

Answer: Pretty much everything shown on that truck in the header photo.

These can be prone to electrical gremlins. Also, you commonly see them squatting in the rear from the failed air-ride, which is not a cheap fix. Think I’d pass on owning one of these.  My uncle had one, and he was so proud of it, despite the interior quickly turning to junk, much like the example here.

Mine’s slightly newer than this, an ‘09 with the 4/8 cylinder deactivation. I can load it up with all five of the family, and a full load of luggage, and still avg 22mpg with cruise on the highway. It’s nearing 200k miles and needs a rear main seal though. It’s been a solid vehicle for us. We also have a newer 2021…

Ah yes, and with the spare mounted up in the cargo area that means this one still has the larger fuel tank. All you fine New York and Los Angeles people could drive to Tulsa before you need to stop for gas. Later models dropped down to a smaller 30 gallon tank when they moved the spare down underneath.

I know there’s a disclaimer in the photo caption, but couldn’t you use another lead photo?   Not only was Beyond not the ship this took place on, but it wasn’t even completed and sailing at that time.

Well, since they are fundamentally unchanged since their initial release, I would expect all Tesla models to start dropping in price, as they continue to produce more and more of the same. Personally I was never a huge fan of the design, and they need to refresh, both to keep up with current styling trends as well as…

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1st Gear: YAWN. I’ll be 46 this year, and Harley Davidson has been labeled a ‘dying company’ every year of my existence. I grow tired of reading about it’s ups/downs and expected demise. So much so, that I didn’t bother more than to skim your mention of it here today.

Bogus and misleading headline, it’s just an exterior rendering.

This is nearly peak malaise for Cadillac, I say nearly only because the Cimarron also exists in our universe, otherwise this would have been probably the most craptastic Caddy model ever built. No no no. I’m sorry, but there is no reason for anyone to pay good money for one of these.

OMG, yes! My mom had one of these in teal. It wasn’t the Indy package, so instead it had the chevy “heartbeat” stripes in the hot pink. I was mortified every time she rolled up to the school pickup line in that thing. She even had matching pink steering wheel cover, and those twin-blade wipers that you could get in…

Agree! The wagon nostalgia you mention, of playing in the back on road trips, etc... that went out with the land-yacht era wagons. These A-body rust buckets, are not nostalgia inducing in the least. With these, you hoped the interior didn’t fall apart between your house and the weekly grocery store run.

That would require actual reporting skill, and you forget what this site has become.

ND, well done retro does not always equal high-dollar. Also nice to see a preserved example of the SWB chassis, which was more common in the ‘70s and early 80's for these types of vans. The suburban soccer mom conversion van, which reigned supreme after these shag-wagons faded from popularity, was always the LWB…

“Billionaire fuckery”, that’s quality journalism right there.

ND.  This is a $3500 car.

You just unlocked a core memory from childhood there for me. Why do old trucks always smell like gas? It doesn’t matter what make, or what year... once they are considered “old” (usually when replaced with a new DD and parked for beater duty), they just start to smell that way!

Beautiful ‘burban!

The hope of finding something written by either Rob or Tom, really is the only reason to stop by here anymore. Otherwise, it’s just sad.