Totally agree. My Saturn Vue was being serviced (hence the loaner) and it was no pillar of refinement and luxury, but that Chrysler felt way subpar by comparison.

I once got a Chrysler Sebring sedan as a loaner while my car was being serviced. It was grey on grey. Drove very grey and left me grey. Absolutely forgettable except for being so forgettable.

then the accident and destruction of the “stolen” vehicle occurs sooner! LOL

Maybe instead of an easily moved barrier somebody drops some Jersey Barriers down.... They are considerably more difficult to move....

Zakspeed actuallly hugely successful well know name in touring cars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakspeed

agreed. I cannot understand the attraction of being on a mega cruise ship at all. I had visions of the cheeseball movie “the Big Bus” when I suggested the nuclear option:

Make em all nuclear powered and we have zero emissions.... ama right?

If we have a long spate of sub freezing I wait for the day that’s near or above freezing and run it through a car wash and pay for the undercarriage wash to. In the past I’d get out there with a hot soapy bucket of water as well as hot water to rinse especially if it was a rainy day.  This is when I was young and…

Since I absolutely don’t need it but money no object, I would have reverted to when I used to drive snow plows as a side hustle in college. The GM pickups we used with 4wd and lockers, a plow, salt spreader and AT tires were beasts and damn near unstoppable. Carve your own path with the plow, spread some salt for…

I had a 2001 Focus ZX-3 from 05-12 and the 2.0 was a nice motor and I really liked the car. Handled great and had that funky Ford New Edge look to it. The Escort ZX-2 had none of that charm in my opinion. Looked alot like a first fen Hyundai Tiburon. My nephew had a ZX2 for a short time and my brother in law who can…

we were so poor we couldn’t afford snow

1 maybe 2 good coupes, the rest were at best meh.  The ZX-2 was a pile of steaming poop for example.

While we are in the booth. I’ve owned 1 Fiat (X-1/9) and 7 Alfa Romeos (3 GTV’s, 1 Giulia Super, 1 GTV6 and 2 Milanos).

I never got an Aurora but I know they were supposed to be really good.  I did get an Alero and it was ok, but I’d been spoiled by the Intrigue.  I actually recommended one to my friend who was shopping the GM’s because she had a dad who got the true “employee discount” back then.  

ditto, that was not intentional drift.  That was “oh snap! code brown! Turn turn turn!”

Back when these were in the Rental Fleets (non GTP of course) I happened to rent them on 2 separate occasions.  Flatulant engine exhaust with a super comfy seat made my road trip from Buffalo to NYC very nice.  Handled decently though at the time I’d been renting Olds Intrique’s and they were really good in the…

My driveway was Ashphalt and had been down about 25yrs when we moved into our house and IT was thicker than that crusty road.

zactly!

“...The problem here, allegedly, is road construction was rushed and a proper foundation for the asphalt was not laid...”  As someone who works around alot of heavy civil including paving, I’d say NO proper foundation was laid.  You never leave those type of large stones/crystals/easter eggs in the subbase.  And the…

NYC had an airport tucked right near Laguardia called Flushing Airport that was abandoned once LGA grew and the area became far more dense. The Hangar and part of the runway and even a firetruck were still there up until a few years ago when the area was returned back to its natural wet land state.