I’m always too late for these. I’d suggest my car, the Elantra Touring wagon. I got mine for just under $7k after a trade-in and 68,000 miles. It doesn’t have a boxer engine and has a moonroof and heated seats. I’m sure there are plenty of examples locally, w/wo manual trans.

It’s official. You’ve described both of my grandparents’ last active vehicles. My grandfather had the last-gen Olds Cutlass and my grandmother had both the 2nd-gen Cavalier (which isn’t much different than the first) AND the facelifted 3rd-gen.

I should clarify, however, that these were the last active vehicles they…

I’m looking back at this comment and seeing what a fool I was. Moonachie actually deserves more credit than I gave it before, especially now that they have to patrol the giant shopping center adjacent to Teterboro Airport. The blue line comment mostly came from a close relative of mine. I never really cared. Just…

Hyundai has made some pretty good modern wagons before. No one remembers the Elantra Touring (or i30cw outside the US). This was my car at the Jalopnik show in Newark. I was the guy with the pug. Runs great.

My father was driving our late great-grandmother’s ‘72 Buick LeSabre Custom convertible to get a few things at the nearby Pep Boys. When he was pulling into the lot, the car suddenly stalled. After rolling it to a space, he tried restating it to no avail. The employees took the Buick in, put it on the lift and just a…

Mine wasn’t overdone and I liked my exterior, too. I’m also glad I got rid of it.

Does this mean no more chipmunk “Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho, Raceway Park!” commercials?

When I see things like these, yeah, they’re cool, but all I think of is paying extra at a road tollbooth.

Funny that despite these two cars being relatively small, they had gas mileage worse than a Camry or Taurus of the same era. I know because I owned a PT Cruiser for three years.

My parents had a fully-loaded ‘04 silver Nissan Quest. We called it “the spaceship” because of its panoramic sunroof, DVD player, a nav system, automatic doors- the whole thing.

Back in 1999, my parents acquired a ‘93 Shadow 4-door from my uncle. It was a saving grace after our ‘89 Colt Vista’s engine died on the NJ Turnpike. From what I remember, though, it was so bland. The dashboard was flat and boxy, the seats felt cheap, the ceiling fabric was already giving way. It was embarrassing to…

Midtown Madness 3! I spent a whole summer playing that game and it was fun trying to jump a Koenigsegg in Georgetown for a new paint job.

Back in May, my mother and I traveled down to Virginia Beach from our home in North Jersey to visit my uncle. We naturally use Google Maps for everything.

Alright, first countersteer story. Here we go.

The Delmarva peninsula, particularly U.S. 13. I’ve taken this road to my uncle’s in Virginia Beach. Imagine a continuous rural void similar to the Midwest, but with traffic lights every 7-10 minutes. Just imagine going approx. 60 mph and having to start braking from a half mile away. For three straight hours. Yeah,…

Moonachie also has the dumb “let’s put a blue line in between the double yellow line on the main road to honor our tiny, tiny police force” that probably cost the town too much money. I live near it. Bunch of warehouses and a Burger King.

Stottlemyre did it first, though with less grace.

For the ladies, or the fact the calendar ends 18, 141 years from now?

I could only think of this. Probably unrelated.

Those are old Ford Excursions, not Suburbans boxing the vehicle. The reporter couldn't use the term SUV, yet he knew what a Bearcat was.