I still drive my 2000 Eclipse daily, and it’s been beyond reliable. It still takes me on long road trips without fear, at 316,000+ miles on the original engine. 

This brings to mind the old adage that “you can’t polish a turd”.

I usually correct highly contemporary minimalist stools with a hint of Ex-Lax, served at an angle of precisely fifteen degrees.

And it lasts more than four hours!

Austin Healey Sprite when I was in college. In New York. Freezing in the winter, hot as hell in the summer, leaked in every rainstorm, and the wind noise was almost unbearable. It could barely hold more than two bags of groceries, or more than one passenger.

I think it’s attractive, and evokes thoughts of the 550 nicely. The only part I think falls short are (is?) the taillights. Aside from that, some really nice touches, from the door pull (and pocket) to the hood-mounted fuel filler...and that gated shifter...come one!  Not on the original, but a nice touch nonetheless.

Welcome to my world. I sent this article to my wife. This was her response:

Is that Torch’s new electric car???

I have a 2005 330i, and can say they are not actually all that hard to DIY (and parts are readily available). In fact I’m about to replace my second window regulator (a definite weak point on these cars), but Youtube videos are plentiful and the drive reminds me why I refuse to sell it. Even with 180k miles it’s still…

Have you visited your optometrist lately? Perhaps this is a wake-up call to make an appointment. :)

That brake pedal probably jams a block of wood against the asphalt to stop. Kinda like a San Francisco cable car.

Not a yellow submarine???

It looks enough like a Mad Max Pursuit vehicle to be timely.  NP

That’s a (tacky) furniture store.

Jesus Christ, for a moment I thought Duh, Florida was actually a place...

It’s probably your civic duty to go with the more ecofriendly Honda, but going with the Ghia will give you better Karma with the Car Gods.

At that point you just put her back in the river and tell her she’s only halfway there.

Well, she IS black and she DOES have a perspective...so there’s that.

Perhaps he should have let his seeing eye dog hold the camera...

That...is ugly as sin.