100% this. Somebody was doing the dance where a car that actually lives in MA (with inspections) is registered in NH (no inspections), and they finally got caught. And 300K miles in New England means it won’t pass MA inspection anymore. (Even though if you go to a “lick ‘em stick ‘em” place, as my dad called them, you…

New Hampshire? Car’s been up for sale for a couple of weeks, even though it’s offered at a pittance and promises to run perfectly?

I recently found that the California design is a nightmare for some motorcycles. Recently got the chance to ride both a Harley-Davidson Pan America and an Indian Super Chief in the same week in SoCal.

I see the opposite happening - people are completely oblivious to the existence of the stop line and will often stop halfway over it. Or, some heroes go completely past it and end up in the intersection. 

That’s fine, I use Firefox anyway.

Hurts me to say this, but NA Miata. I don’t want to call it a Lotus Elan ripoff, but for all intents and purposes, it was. It was the late 80's best interpretation of Elan. They even tested like 96 exhaust systems to come up with the sound best reminds of Lotus twin cam.

I’m sorry, you start the article by talking about covers that were better than the original but then completely fail to mention Siouxsie and the Banshee’ cover of Dear Prudence?

The late Seventies Toyota Celica fastback ripoff of the Mustang:

My roommate had an Ion in 2003. I drove it once for about 5 miles, and hated every minute of it. The stupid center mounted gauge cluster really highlighted the massive expanse of absurdly cheap plastic dash.

Which is a shame, because the SC series cars they replaced, while inexpensive, didn’t kill you with the cheap. They weren’t pleasant per se, but they were a good value for the price point.

Clearly nobody here remembers the Yugo.

I regularly drive with Waze open so I can get alerts for things like speed traps and car crashes.

California is so weird. Does so many things well and right, and does just as many things with trademark stupidity. That sounds like my sister, come to think of it.

You might end up getting tired of this topic, but a bunch of poorly engineered metal without crumple zones. air bags or any sort of augmented braking/stability systems is the opposite of safe. You would be far safer in a newish Corolla than you would be in this barge. Nearly as many people died yearly in auto…

It would end up in a ditch the picosecond it began to rain.

I’m with you on big and slow, but safe? A lot of advances have been made in safety in the last 43 years, and this thing will handle like a pig, even worse so in inexperienced/overconfident hands. I wouldn’t put my teenager in one unless I didn’t care about them very much.

The perfect car for your snotty high school kid—big, slow, and safe since he’ll be surrounded by about five tons of metal. An Iowan car, so check for rust and since the Merc has shockingly low mileage for its age, it must’ve been stored for the winters (why?????????), but have a gander anyway. But asking $5 grand?…

As a pedestrian, I‘ve literally never had an issue with vehicles turning right on red. That's because I'm an intelligent human being who understands that it's important to make eye contact with the driver of that vehicle, or otherwise ensure that they are clearly not going to start moving when I step in front of them.…

Normally, I’d agree. But it seems like this article is yet another anti-car hit piece from this supposedly driving orientated magazine. Why do you hate cars and driving so much, Jalopnik?

No one under 50 knows what a Cressida is.