Yeah, pretty easy to come 2nd in the minivan market when Honda and Toyota aren’t producing minivans (1st-generation Odyssey was a tall station wagon, so I’m not even going to try to count that). Also, how many of those letters came from the metro Detroit area, where everyone gets employee pricing on Ford vehicles…

Um, I think you’ve got it backwards; unlike the average boomer, I’m firmly of the belief that most everything that is old is complete garbage, designed by incompetents and assembled by illiterates. That is certainly the case with the Ford Aerostar, which was a slapdash effort to throw something into the market to…

There is no way you could convince me to transport anyone I even remotely care about in that deathtrap, and once you’ve eliminated that possibility, there is no reason to spend any extra money on the world’s cleanest Aerostar.

Reading this gave me waves of nostalgia. I had a regular Discman (not the “car” version with its added skipping protection), and I drove a Honda CRX, so it skipped ALL THE TIME. I bought an in-dash Pioneer CD player (with detachable face!) with my Xmas money my junior year in HS, and installed it myself, because…

The UAW needs to be dismantled and replaced with something better. As it stands, the only things they’re good at are corruption, protecting/encouraging bad workers, and creating an atmosphere of hostility between labor and management, which they use to justify their continued existence. I know this, because I used to…

Well, the good news for you is the Focus has always had a pretty steep depreciation curve, and there are probably a ton of them coming off-lease, since it’s the sort of car a person in their early 20s would have leased, because they only saw the low monthly payment.

Ford designer #1: “Hey, I’ll bet you can’t design a vehicle exterior using only an Etch-a-Sketch!”

Found the 3rd-gen UAW member.

There’s the problem. This thing could be powered by an interstellar hyperdrive that runs on positive feeling, but it’s a Cobalt, and that’s the only thing anyone’s going to see. The drivetrain might be completely different from anything else in the lineup, but the average buyer doesn’t know/doesn’t want it, and the…

Chevy Cobalt SS: Because you want to leave no doubt that you’re a vape enthusiast with a Monster Energy Drink Addiction

Chevy Cobalt SS: The noise most often heard just after Kyle puts his fist through the drywall again.

Honda was in many ways the vanguard, and while the jobs they brought paid less than union work and were less secure,

You are correct, except “in the beginning” was the early 1970s, 10 years before Honda opened the Marysville plant. The first couple of years, Honda cars were rust-prone and unreliable, but by 1982, they were on track, and by 1990, the best-selling car in America. At one point, Marysville Accords were being exported…

Someone posts this same statement whenever a 2-door vehicle is featured here. As a lifelong bachelor with no intention of ever having a family, I still prefer a 4-door, because I have friends, and getting in and out of the rear seat of most 2 door vehicles isn’t a dignified process. Aside from the rare freakishly tall…

Way too much money for not enough Jeep. By the time you’ve refitted it with everything necessary to make it worthwhile, you’ll have exceeded the price of a better one. It’s a clean shell, but at a higher price. This is the equivalent of buying a old, rundown house that the seller claims is full of “history” and…

Well at least he pronounced “Volkswagen” correctly.

Yeah, but that car is a good representation of the 1970s in general.

Fat, gaudy, and underpowered. If you want to know where the Big 3 lost their way, look no further. I’m amazed Lincoln didn’t stick fake wood siding onto this pig, to go with that ridiculous faux continental kit trunk lid.

Until you realize that the 1960s hp numbers were entirely fabricated. They didn’t use production engines for testing, they had every belt-driven device removed on the stand, ran open exhaust, pumped water through them in a total-loss configuration, and then rounded the numbers up when they were done.

Respectable by the incredibly low standards of the Detroit 3, maybe. Meanwhile in Japan, Honda had already broken the 100hp/L (Naturally aspirated) barrier with the B16A.

The original Cannonball Run was a protest against the 55mph federal highway speed limit. Brock Yates and Dan Gurney(?) made it in 36 hours at an average speed of 80mph, which is hardly a breakneck pace.