Meet my roof mounted Kayak Rack.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Parsh, that whosoever hoon it should not perish, but have everlasting mid-engine balance. Cayman 7:18

Anything can be a racecar if you get enough people to race them put fender flares and enough stickers on it. :D

I really, really want the Stinger to succeed (I can’t afford one, but maybe someday). I see them in person from time to time and think they’re awesome. Sat in one at an auto show and it was comfy and seemed well built.

Did you miss the “FUCK YOU RACIST MOTHERFUCKERS” bit?

You obviously never drove a Chevette, or a Pinto, or any subcompact from the 80s. We are not comparing the Versa with bigger, more popular cars, but with cars from 30 or 40 years ago, which were literally coffins on wheels. And they were slower, and got 25 MPG at best.

Also rented one once and I remember distinctly the sound of the engine. Obviously in any small car you need to rev the engine a bit to get it moving but this one in particular sounded not happy. Next time I needed to rent a car the options were Versas in any color you can think of and a tiny, base model automatic Fiat…

I won’t argue that 80's economy cars were crap tin cans. There is a reason why C&D coined the term “penalty boxes” in reference to them. Still, that stupid Colt (Doge and Plymouth sold them with the exact same name). It DID impart an air of character due to Mitsubishi’s efforts at finding a way to both maximize fuel…

As a child of the 80's, I concur. You don’t know how good modern cars are unless you’ve driven an economy car from the late 70's to early 80's. I vividly remember having to downshift to 3rd just to maintain 45 mph going up a hill in dad’s 1979 Chevy Luv. Mom’s Pinto wagon could only do 40 on the same hill.

“Carries 5 of what comfortably, though? People?”

Hey, Patrick, it’s funny you should mention the Colt. Back in the day, yeah, transmissions were very funky, but the Colt 4-speed had a hi-lo range control. It therefore had a total of 8 possible forward ratios, and yes, two in reverse, making it, as far as I recall, the only car able to upshift going backwards.

don’t tell Dan who he can and who he cannot be.

DRUM brakes you say ? I caught that one like a bird in a SNARE :P

$7k? Room to haul, kinda Jalop, but not too Torch? No problem.

Yeah, I had an ‘02 that was similarly depreciated. The only reason why my family parted with it was that the back seat was a little too close-quarters for my kids. Got tired of getting the seatback kicked. Little did I know that it doesn’t matter what you drive, the kids will find some way to annoy you.

I think that I may be the only one here who has driven one (ok, that may be the definition of “meh car”), but these things really did drive extraordinarily well. For some reason the front seem to have really good grip (some sort of geometry thing in the front that controlled camber precisely?) and it was very neutral.…

Stealing this from YouTube to get stars here.

For the people that want to delete emissions equipment in 70s, 80s, and early 90s cars, keep in mind THIS is the order of magnitude you're increasing pollution by. People seem to think taking off the air pump and cats and such just doubles or triples the smog. It doesn't. It goes up by 10 or more times. One catless…

It didn't just come in the Colt too, early Cordia's were available with the twin-stick too. I had a '79 Colt RS in college and I loved the 8-speed, especially the 2-speed reverse. If you ever want to enter a backwards car race the Colt is the car for you. It would shock bystanders each time you did an upshift in…

These bastards are incredibly durable, I would have NEVER guessed it, until one day a buddy and I were sitting around a campfire in my backyard having a beer a couple days before my wedding.