@AlienProbe: Bribing with Boone's Farm is bad enough, but the generic store-brand American cheese slices must've left a bad taste in the judges' mouths.

Wow, that's just about showroom condition...it's just plain nice! I wish my daily driver were that cool.

Except for they actually made cool cars in 1933, and "Jalopnik" was printed out on manual Underwood typewriters and comments were received by telegram.

"Honey, can I borrow your car? I seem to be out of Camels..."

@Tomsk would like to meet this Roy Wert fellow: They'd have to be crazy NOT to bring over the TDI, if for nothing more than to say "gets better fuel mileage than a Toyota Prius." Those would be coveted bragging rights, for sure.

@skrappykat: Like the two-speed clutchless semi-auto out of the Beetle??? That kind of bad?

Supertrain..the sports car...

I had a 1991 Escort..it was a cheapskate's dream... it ran good, it seldom broke down and consistently got over 30 MPG. (although it had all the character of driving an oversized aluminum can).

Wow..clean exterior lines, a nicely designed interior that doesn't look like it came from the bottom of a cereal box and a TDI powerplant too? This might possibly be my next car!

@I will never own a Kia: Do you suppose they have rednecks in India?

@BMRFILE: Yeah, I remember when people only used pickups...to pick up stuff.

I wouldn't buy one because it probably IS junk (and it's ugly too), but that begs the question of "Why does it take an Indian company of all things to put a diesel in a small pickup truck?"

Opel = 120 laps

Not bad, although a giant menorah strapped to the roof would complete the theme.

I actually like the bizarre Flintstonesque exterior styling...just because it doesn't look like everything else on the road.

The occupation of "repo-man" is a dangerous one, and if you go around in the middle of the night taking people's cars out of their driveways (even if you have the blessing of the law), you have to expect to be shot at, particularly if the vehicle owner has no way to distinguish you from a common criminal or vandal.…

On the other hand, it would make a fantastic gift for that teenage son or daughter that you would like to completely and utterly humiliate!

@PHIL: Spaceballs...The Car!

Talk about signs of the end being near.

@Maymar has too much utility character: I actually liked my 1991 Escort, at least up until the point it contracted terminal body cancer and promptly digested itself. When it was alive, though, it was a pretty decent little car. Except for that time it tried to decapitate me with its automatic seatbelt.