This:

“My only question is, why didn’t Yugo build their cars like this from the factory?”

The Super Bee and the Scout are badass...but the little Pontiac T1000 really surprised me. I thought they’d all returned to the earth or been scrapped due to a slushbox that rendered them unable to get out of their own way.

It would be more accurate to state that “Apple charges $1,000 for a phone because fanboys will pay that price for it.” I’ll stick with an Android platform, which is just as good and a hell of a lot less expensive.

I saw this movie when it was in theaters. I remember liking it then, but 15 years on, I’d have a different perspective. The real highlight of the movie was the original Mini that zipped across the screen all too briefly.

One of my dreams is to live on scores of thousands of acres with my nearest neighbors five miles away from me...

The wheels alone are enough for me to put my stamp of approval on that odd little rig.

You almost took the words right out of my mouth. Keep Jalopnik about cars and related matter and push the feminist rhetoric elsewhere!

You beat me to the punch when it came to adding photos of the original Mini. Anyone who can’t love the original Mini, as far as I’m concerned, is soulless.

I haven’t driven a Mini, so I can’t objectively make a judgment of its merits.

Slushbox notwithstanding, that thing is actually pretty cool.

What an ugly little thing...I’m having trouble deciding if it’s so ugly it’s cool. The Banshee IV of about a dozen years earlier, on the other hand:

I had a black 2015 (if memory serves me correctly) as a rental in 2016...right until Enterprise declared that it was to be purged from their inventory. Despite having front-wheel-drive, a slushbox, and a back seat that was useless for anyone not mandated to ride in a child safety seat, I didn’t think it was a terrible…

A perfect summation of why I voted Crack Pipe.

“That, or this is just another staged viral marketing stunt we’re being subjected to.”

Depends on the market they’re going after, I suppose. If they’re going after potential Mustang/Camaro/Challenger buyers, $35,000 and up. If they intend to market it as an alternative to the Corvette, $62,500 and up.

Lack of a real transmission, though not surprising, wouldn’t be the only thing to keep me from buying a new Supra. It’ll come with electronic nannies that I neither need nor want, and will almost certainly be unduly complicated and ugly.

Is the word “striking” serving as a euphemism for “ugly?”

Toyota would do well to examine some of the names GM has rehashed over the years: Le Mans, Nova, Malibu, and Rally Sport, to name a few. And with Ford apparently planning to put a new Bronco into production, some people (myself included) will say that anything with four doors isn’t a Bronco.

Granted, it’s all subjective, but I don’t like the brown paint at all. And I fail to see why painting a car brown goes such a long way to making it quintessentially “Jalop.” If someone has a good explaination for that, I’d like to read it.