1987 was the year Buick sold the 3.8 turbo in any Regal and they moved 27,000 of them out the door. With so many well preserved, I bet a good pro-street GN can be had for well under $20K.

The Sinaloa lobby helped get it done.

The competition, I guess. I can't imagine a more challenging situation for competitors than having Audi and Porsche duking it out. I would love to see other names come back (Alfa, Jaguar, M-B), but they probably don't have the money.

Well, this pretty much guarantees a no-show from the Italians in LMP1 for the foreseeable future.

If these means we'll get a 1-cylinder 1-Series, then I'll be interested. Or at least curious.

I can't imagine the earlier, less powerful S320 sold well either. Though I do see a few around. Very confusing, though. The W140 has the I-6, the W220 has the V6.

Well worth the read. Nicely done. #COTD Life Experiences Edition

Good piece, but I was surprised to see no mention of the de Rivaz car. Cugnot clearly had an earlier car, but the granddaddy of internal combustion vehicles was an 1807 Swiss four-wheel machine that ran on hydrogen and oxygen and performed a combustion cycle using a piston-crankshaft arrangement much like modern cars.

Heck, Between Two Ferns was much better!

Coefficient of expansion. At 250, things look right.

I'll get heat for this but I have to say the luxury pickup truck. Why pay $64,000 for something that you should expect will get dented when you, say, plow the driveway or haul a few hundred pounds of stone out of gravel pit. Bedliner? Fine. Air conditioning? Fine. Leather seats, chrome rims, and a freaking backup…

This is certainly more awesome than that other failure from this time, the FWD V6-powered Quattroporte III.

Well done. Hell in a steel can. Perhaps the only way you could outdo this would be to somehow appropriate the 6-valve per cylinder V6 biturbo prototype and mesh it to, uh, I don't know, a Chrysler TC?

I believe you are correct. Seven made? Although I'm not sure exactly how many Type 57SC Atlantiques they were hoping to sell.

Hah. Nice. Appendix A: Care and Use of Your Hydration Tube

These calm traffic. Look how peaceful this one is.

Not going to happen. Three reasons: 1) They are forcing their top dealers to spend a million bucks on showroom renovations; 2) Most of the underperforming standalone Lincoln dealers were culled shortly after the financial collapse; 3) Mercury is also dead, which leaves no luxury brand (bye-bye PAG!) other than Lincoln…

Double D-bag. He also destroyed a BMW 314ti, which was almost certainly the only one ever made.

A gentleman named Bilbo called. Said he was interested in the car and would drop by while invisible and simply drive it away.

The cowl shake felt round the world.