My mom is one of those "automatic" Honda buyers. She bought her first one because a friend had and loved one. When it was time to replace it (in '06), I had her test drive a lot of cars, because I wanted her to like what she got. Turns out she liked the Honda the least - but she went out without me later in the…

Yeah, I've made that mistake a few times myself. If you put a Merc emblem on a Genesis I'd probably be fooled.

The obvious solution is to just switch to a spare battery, rather than to an entire spare car. This would require teams to press the boundaries of battery swapping, an idea that has always seemed practical in theory, but has never been successful in practice.

Wrong headlights for an '81. I think they were onto the 4 square holes with the grille below by then. But I like the pictured one a lot better. Edit: Ew, I need to remember to view all replies before posting something that's already been posted.

Sexy thru-bumper exhaust!

I used to have a '72 Skylark, but always wanted the GS. The 70 (pictured above) was the best looking year IMO.

I could get used to this look.

Yes, this!

After having driven through Ohio from one side to the other, I've come to the conclusion that you have to be going 70.5mph to get a ticket in a 70mph zone, assuming the radar gun rounds up.

My wife represents wagons properly. Five citations in the last two years. Three from scameras and the other two from officers.

Sign me up for one of those!

At least the stick shifts gears in the proper "down for up, up for down" layout.

Sometimes my wife takes the subway, and the road leading into the subway station is a sort of loop that circles the whole station and parking area. There's a spot where busses enter the loop from the bus repair area, and from that point on the road is like a greased watermelon from all the leaking busses (oil diesel,…

Love those Focus STs. If I were in the market for a car, that would be it.

I live in MD (bleh) and work in DC (double-bleh). I combat the latter by using public trans and never driving in the city. The former I have to live with though. Both places are packed with scameras, which bring the already slow traffic to a crawl during the day in the hopes of catching the odd speeder at night.

Just think of it as sitting in your Corvette while your dentist is working on a filling from the passenger seat. Despite the horrors that image conjures, I still like it.

This looks like one of my slot cars.

For has had ongoing problems with the rear ends of the stang lately. What happened to the nice back end on that one concept back in 2004?

Ugh, auto trans.

The people behind the absurd Devel Sixteen say it has a 5,000 horsepower V16 engine fitted behind the driver, making it easily the fastest production car in the world. I'll believe that when my shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet.