I always liked "The Standard of the World" myself.

The recall happened over a decade later, but the company KNEW about the issue for all of those years and covered it up, resulting in deaths, deaths which immediately changed the value of all the cars subject to that recall, which was covered up KNOWINGLY. They messed up and are clearly liable here.

These things didn't happen during the next model year. They happened over a decade later, when the defect was finally brought to light. Also, it was a concealed safety issue that had caused multiple deaths and many serious injuries, not the natural progression of product enhancements. Furthermore, you are assuming…

I'm guessing by "In my case since the vehicle I was importing cost less than $10k" he meant that it cost "as much as a dirty pair of socks, approximately."

Could you write something about finding a customs broker? There seems like there is probably a good story in there...

All of the regulations that are different between the US and Europe and therefore deny all the best wagons and technologies from being sold/imported here for 25 years.

He was racing a tube chassis car painted to resemble a Monte Carlo for marketing purposes. He was a legendary racing driver, and he deserved better. It's a shame they couldn't use his name to try and sell something that at least had a V8.

It always upsets me that they couldn't have remembered him with a better car.

I would say the SBC is the B-52 of engines. The VQ line is just your late middle aged uncle who still goes to the club every weekend.

Porsche has had a 911 Turbo for many decades, so I think it would be "available"

When you get it armored, which you most certainly would (being a dictator), the van would be a brick and undriveable.

Why would you want them in the seat? The harem belongs on the floor, worshiping you.

Have you been asleep since 2012? Maybach is a trim-ish thing now.

The push is not to end all franchise dealerships, it is to allow the manufacturers to also sell cars directly. If the manufacturer sells cars with 1000x markup, the franchised dealers will undercut them all day and the manufacturer will sell nothing. If the manufacturer decides to increase all prices so its direct…

It is not brown. It is not a wagon. It is not diesel. It is nothing Jalops want.

Wrong, it was the deliberate actions of business employees that caused monetary damage to millions of Cobalt owners all at once. That is a classic class action lawsuit.

I know it won't come stateside.

So if you were shopping around on Tuesday and dealers were offering $2000 for your trade-in Cobalt, then Wednesday the ignition switch recall comes out and the same dealer offers you $1500 for the same car that is 1 day older. Oh, and you are also struggling to make ends meet, and that Cobalt spends more time in the…

This reminds me of when cars moved away from carburetors and everyone hailed the end of the home mechanic...

Boutique isn't the right word for it...I'm thinking an Organic car dealer network.