It’s an interesting, extremely rare survivor that you’d never see on the road these days, and in this condition. For less than $10k? Why the hell not. NP.

If I can’t put a 4x8 sheet of plywood in the bed and close the tailgate, it’t a toy not a truck.

As with most people, I prefer my E30s with the tin tops. The convertibles are weirdly uninteresting..

It beats the junk 737 Max Boeing tried to replace it with.

No, because marketing a product is necessary to make the public aware of its existence, and to blanketly call all marketing “cringe” usually just comes from people who feel like they’re being “brainwashed” or “lied to” by every commercial, billboard or magazine ad.

Absolutely nobody cares, but those are 1979-1980 Pinto hubcaps.

20 years from now, today’s marketing material will also be cringe.

All marketing material is cringy and always has been.

From awkward uses of slang from the time to club references, Ford tried a bit too hard in attempting to appeal to young people with the Focus.

...all the while completely missing the massive point that Tesla is a niche automobile manufacturer...

With all the crap non-automotive stuff Jalopnik has been posting lately...

Sorry, but no one is going to confuse a Bentley with something you can rent from Hertz.

Jalopnik was better before Gawker bought it.

A strapless dress has no straps.

Don’t drive it in the rain or get it wet?

It’s the same reason why crossovers are more popular than standard cars now. Ride height. As Americans grow larger and older [See: Wall-E], the ability to just slide themselves into a higher vehicle becomes very appealing. And last I checked, are younger people even buying Miatas?

So yeah, teen driver move, definitely, but in the teen’s defense..

Agreed, go find legal parking somewhere or make the homeowners let you park in their driveway.