Convertibles are like pizza and boobs, even bad examples are pretty good. This is cheap enough to have around for a dozen drives a year and not care if you forget and leave the top down.

PA, so it’s probably seen salt, and autotragic. But nice color!

Ford Fiesta ST is my hat in this ring, has roughly the same MPG’s, Manual, No CVT, reliable, Turbo, and a hell of alot funer to drive than thins thing, also if you went with the $20k price tag you can still find examples with under 30k miles. No I know thats alot more that 117mi but it’ll probably last just as long if…

They’re great for mounting winter tires. Maybe not what’s going on here, since it’s not really driven, but they do have a winter-tire looking tread at the side in that first pic.

As transportation, you could do WAY worse than a Malibu. We have one in our fleet of vehicles at work, and honestly, it’s not a bad ride at all. Not too ugly, optioned nice and comfortable. Where I draw the line at is that there is no manual trunk release. No key, no button, no lever...nothing. You HAVE to use the key…

Thank you sir for coming back! You are 90% of why I even still come here, and a reminder of the good old Jalop days. Hope you enjoyed a well deserved vacation

Is the Jalopnik site dying? I don’t know anyone who has been rescued from the grays. Our avatar images are gone, and now we can’t vote. I couldn’t view ANY comments for 7 hours earlier this week.

Oh wow, I didn’t notice this wasn’t a Rob-written piece. At first I thought it just wasn’t one of his better efforts and he must be wiped out from his trip. But I have to say, for someone who is not Rob, it’s a pretty good effort, which should say something about how good Rob's writing is...

If he has, he hasn’t told me about it! He should be back next week

I hope all is well with Gravedigger Rob.

Toyota-branded sepukku daggers: worst conference swag ever

If this is priced correctly for the market, that means it is NP. The question isn’t whether or not you personally want to own one - the question is if the owner has priced it well or if they are out of their mind.

And why pick Frankie Goes To Hollywood over Huey Lewis and The News?

I did hear something about how the radiator didn’t fit but also missed where they put it. I am also guessing it’s relocated to the trunk, I noticed the hole thing in a few scenes:

That would make sense in terms of room under the hood and to protect it from debris and rocks.  A smashed radiator will end your race day real quick.

The Porsche 944 Turbo:

If a Focus ST’s suspension was “too stiff even on the track” for someone, I humbly submit that the buyer only actually liked the idea of a track car.

The Focus ST wasn’t a track day car in stock form, but it was (and still is) a killer autocross car. In 2017 Focuses took 7 of the top 10 spots in G street, beating out its contemporary GTI, Mini, and Civic SI competitors. Even in 2023, on a platform that’s two decades old and going up against the latest GTI and Civic…

I don’t shit on your dreams.

I too would like to live in a world where the trash collector pays me every day to pick up my garbage. But then again, if that were to happen, it would probably also mean living in some sort of Monkey’s Paw universe where I have to pay to go to work. I don’t think I want to be the one who establishes the precedent and…