Here you go. $25k, just under 80,000 miles, a manual, and you’re welcome.

That car cemented its place at the top of late 80s / early 90s piece of shit cars when a high school friend’s stepdad, a step-parent straight out of some Russian folk tale, got him a Tempo so he wouldn’t have to drive his step-son around any more. I think he must have spent weeks searching for the most half-assed shit…

Rob. What the hell? No. There should be legal consequences for doing this to a perfectly excellent MR2 turbo. And fix your poll.  

The only obstacle to a flying car is physics. Cars need to be made of heavy stuff because the road is a crowded place and they bump into things a lot. If it’s heavy enough to *actually* use it on the road and not gingerly creep two miles to the local airstrip, then it’s too heavy to be a good plane. When they have…

From what I can tell, they got overtaken by the absolutely insane success of the kickstarter program. Roberts had a $10 million game in mind, but when he hit triple digits the team realized that they had to come up with something that justified the kooky budget. It would have been nice to keep the features under…

The Civic Si is a prestige car. It’s like a corporate mission statement you can buy. Honda makes as many as they want to make and they sell as many as they want to sell. When Honda thinks about profit first they just  print another ten thousand CR-Vs and HR-Vs.

Obviously, if the seller’s lying or hiding something then you walk away.  It’s the same rule for every used car.

The earlier & rounder XJs look better, but $5k for a pristine-looking V12 with no running issues is a perfectly good price.

It’s a fine little car for the 240SX market, but man was the handling squirrely on those things. A feeling of direct input is one thing, but Cougars wanted to change lanes if you twitch your finger.

You know what, I’m not even going to explain because I shouldn’t have to. Anyone who didn’t grin all the way through this one is dead inside. Of course you never, ever buy Someone Else’s Project with money you can’t afford to lose...but if you can afford to set $2500 on fire there are much worse ways to go about it…

The kids are 100 percent right and I want you to tell them that.  

So, basically, a Chrysler 300 Hellcat?

The weight balance of the car as pictured would be hilariously bad. I mean somersaults when you brake hard bad.  

Modern car design seems to lack. any reference to the inevitability of death or serious mutilation

Datsun 240ZX. You’d have to beef up the pillars slightly to meet modern standards, but the lines on that car will never not be fantastic. Give it a straight six with a bit of torque-y grunt and let it compete in the same segment the BR-Z basically has to itself right now.

Try the continental United States! Even before they abandoned the US market, decent manual Fits were unobtanium at any price.

The batmobile should look like a 2015 beige Camry with a supercharged LS swap.I know that every superhero ‘needs’ a hero car with the hero’s face on the front of the car, but driving such a wildly unique car just begs to be pulled over even when you aren’t doing anything wrong. Plus it’ll be embarrassing when Batman…

The Fit was not available in manual at pretty much any point in 2020.  I was hoping to replace my ‘08 manual Fit with a new one, but apparently such an animal did not exist in the continental United States. 

This is truth. That breed is me, but you can’t really make an argument based on reliability, efficiency or speed any more. Personally, aside from the engagement point, I like being able to bump-start a car, and it’s a great anti-theft device for a big fraction of potential car thieves.

They last a long time. There’s still plenty of 12 year old 1st-gen models on the street.  People who buy Fits often want a Fit, even when they can afford more (that’s me!).