This calls for a joint a Torch/Tracy effort, I think. 

Agree with you 100% in this thread. The auto industry in general is in for a massive downturn. But what will be just destroyed is anything that is a “toy”.

During the restricted period (it’s a window of an hour or 90 mins on the designated day(s) each week), people sit in their cars. If the street sweeper comes, they move to the other side of the street and double park until the sweeper passes. Then they move back to the other side of the street and stay in their cars…

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug (I’m very susceptible to it myself), but you’re completely right. Especially when it comes to domestic cars, there was a period of about 25 years or so where Detroit was churning out a lot of garbage. Having your car strand you was just something that happened in a way it generally…

Yeah, I can almost guarantee that the T-Tops either already leaks or are about to start. 

Yeah, this article was a whole bunch of bad takes.

I was thinking the same thing. Emergencies are the time to bend and waive otherwise necessary rules to help protect society (a classic example is emergency vehicles being permitted to exceed the speed limit and run red lights when operating their lights and sirens).

Yeah, we’re certainly in the minority, but I look at the car the same way. You’d have to do some diligence — but you’re looking at buying a 30-something year old German performance car...diligence is the entirety of the purchase process — but If everything checks out ok, this seems like a fair price for what’s on…

What a great build. I think the proportions of 2-door SUVs are just so much more pleasing to the eyes than four-doors. 

Having the quiet, evil politically savvy Vice President take over when the bumbling idiot president “tragically” dies isn’t straight out of every season of 24 and political dystopian movie or anything. Move along. Nothing to see here. 

LA drivers are bad for two reasons:

I once had a Lyft driver who must be one of the most dedicated Saturn Sky fans ever to exist. I was going to look at an E28 BMW so we started talking cars. He and his wife both have Skys? Skies?....ok, they each drive a Sky. He is active in the Sky community and all that.

Right? Low 30s opens up a vast universe of cars....really good examples of almost anything you can imagine other than Lambo/Ferrari-level exotics and a few rare collectors cars (MB Gullwings or Pagodas and the like).

Same. For whatever reason, I love the aesthetics of the old Broncos, K-5 Blazers, first-gen 4Runners, old Land Cruisers, FJ Cruisers, and so on. They just look like fun trucks. The new 2dr Bronco is totally giving me those vibes. Can’t wait to see them on the road, and I’d even take one for a test drive...see if they…

If you’re on the outside, that thought process makes a lot of sense (because it’s the logical answer). But if you truly have been indoctrinated in these religions from your earliest memory, it can be really difficult to even conceptualize that separating yourself is even a possibility...let alone actually taking the…

Exactly! Oprah has shown consistently terrible judgment in the voices she has elevated. Why we as a society have decided that she is the Ultimate Moral Arbiter of All Things is a mystery to me.

Anyone have guesses for the price of one of these? It’s a pretty compelling package.

Yeah, this looks really good to me (much better than the 4-door)

It was probably around 1998. After gas prices shot up when Iraq invaded Kuwait in ‘90, prices stayed fairly high (for the era) for a few years, and then slid in the late 90s. I remember in the summer of ‘98, I was driving a ton for work and paid as little as $0.89 per gallon. That winter, prices started going up again…

Also, I’m too lazy to go dig up the links, but I believe the early 90s wasn’t even an official recession (formal economic definition of a recession: two or more consecutive quarters of negative economic growth). If I recall correctly, 2nd quarter of ‘92 was negative, and then the preliminary numbers for 3rd quarter…