My mother bought one of these new the first year they were out. I inherited it a year later, when she passed away. It had 4100 miles on it at the time. I owned for maybe a year and a half. The amount of “this shouldn’t break on a new car” stuff that broke during that time was horrific. Had I been the original owner I…

“There’s one born every minute, and two to take advantage of him.”

45 years ago, did anyone really want a Chevette, or a Pinto? Similarly, you could have spent a little more and gotten a lot more car for the money. At the time I think someone asked a GM executive “What’s the best GM car someone could get for $4000?” (I forget the exact dollar amount, whatever it took to get something…

When I had an MGB roadster I would haul furniture home from Ikea like this.

I always wanted to hear Weird Al do a style parody of Frank Zappa and then he released “Genius In France”.

If wages are stagnant, people are burdened with educational and medical debt, and people have to have two jobs and a “side hustle” just to get by ... then who is spending this kind of money?

The Series III cars were where they finally ditched the troublesome Zenith-Stromberg dual carburettor setup for Bosch L-Jetronic fuel injection, so these actually run most of the time.

It’ll look like a Jackson Pollock painting.

This is specifically illegal under Rodriguez v. United States.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodriguez_v._United_States

What I want to know is, if everyone is so broke, wages have been stagnant for 20+ years, and peoples’ backs are breaking under educational and medical debt loads ... who is paying this kind of money?

My parents had a Ford Pinto, bought new, that I drove in high school in the early ´80s. ‘Nuff said.

A lot of women are in the same situation. It’s gotten better since seat belts became height-adjustable, but, before that, nearly every 3-point belt ever made cut across my 5'4" mom’s windpipe. She hated those things.

This wasn’t a place I expected to find someone citing TVTropes. “TVTropes will ruin your life”

It’s a toss up between the 1971 MGB roadster I drove for most of the ‘90s, and my current car, an ‘01 New Beetle.

Buick sells well in China. GM was never going to get rid of Buick.

No one’s mentioned the godawful 1988-93 Pontiac LeMans, which was a captive import Daewoo LeMans, which in turn was a badge-engineered Opel Kadett E.

Somewhere, Joan Claybrook is grinning, ear-to-ear.

Just the thing to drive to the bowling alley while you listen to your Creedence tapes.  (Go easy on the White Russians, though.)

The lack of a back seat is a pretty serious handicap for anything that’s not an out-and-out sports machine, and/or is your only car.

Gen-X here--Kurt Cobain died in 1994 and I keep thinking “that was like 20-25 years ago, right?”