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Come to the dark side. An old MG is really quite reliable once you fix all the horrid hackups previous owners inevitably did. My wiring harness was a literal rat nest and the engine is so tired that it wore clean through the alternator brushes, the bits holding the brushes, and the spring that holds those. It just…

Way to go marketing team for quoting Batman and a stale meme!

Haha it was pure luck actually. I just thought of two of my favourite things on hardtop cars and decided they needed to be smushed together! Mazda is just that great.

CALLED IT!

The other requirements for a visa are self deprecating humour and an unwavering commitment to keep things civil, even while ripping through back roads in the bed of a pickup while playing Rush VERY loud.

He must’ve been on a Strange Brew

Having grown up when these things were already old and leaving people on the side of the road, yes. Not as cool as a big Bronco, but more interesting than a 90s Jimmy. My friends loved smaller 4x4s for weaving through the northern BC trails where you could scrape both sides of a Mazda B-2200, but they bought Suzuki…

I’m also in Kelowna and I agree. There are more HyperCars here than these. Then again, this is also the town where a man drives an electric blue Countach as his winter car. Used to see Broncos everywhere up north!

That is a darn good looking little beast.

The real solution here is to make a removable hardtop that is also a fastback! The aftermarket made them for the British cars that the Miata took after, and they could potentially inprove the poor storage space. Take the trunk lid off and replace it with a nice sloping rear gate, for maybe a few grand. It can be…

A part of the issue here is that the manufacturers reinforce the stigma. This is a big part of the article, but the marketing is only a part of it. The quality in this segment has improved in recent years but a large part of why people hate minivans (in North America at least, because I have heard of way nicer…

Your fiction pieces are a fantastic change of pace in automotive writing. Keep it up! I would buy a book about your fictionalized adventures in a heartbeat.

Max Hardigrew’s Car Mysteries is a revelation in gonzo auto journalism that will be remembered.

Yes! I would love to take a vicarious peek behind the curtain of classic car auctions and see how the process works. Maybe Doug can go with a general idea of what he wants and get whatever comes up for a good deal at the auction!

YES! Jalops go on about really small cars being amazing and how fun old economy cars could be. But any time people go to actually drive these someone in the background yells “but you’ll get run over by modern softroaders!” I get that all the time because my car is short enough to drive underneath semi trailers.

Some old (>50 years) cars are so misunderstood and derided. My MGB was basically the Miata of the 60s, yet this conversation happens all the time at my university.

I would expect a car looking like this to sound good, but dang is that musical! Old inline fours have such great intake noise, so I am surprised some drab old British or Italian family car didn’t make the list.

COTD. The last line may clinch it as a best ever.