CP all the way unless you’re a recent lottery winner or have a backup ride. These are beautiful cars and look great just standing still...which is it’s natural state. A friend of my son’s owned one of these prior to the point where it just needed way too much work to make driveable. I know late 90's BMWs fairly well…
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Glad you’re OK. But I gotta ask: why didn’t you call the police? The oncoming driver was at best distracted and worse could have been impaired.
Seconded to the many suggestions to buy a dashcam. You may not have caught the oncoming vehicle with any degree of clarity but you may have picked up the plate of the Mustang…
Nope. I only know about it because of a friend who graduated from that Law School was actively and repeatedly asked for money to help build said law school. The University in question is a very big fish in a decidedly small pond. Big fish as in large teaching hospital attached to their med school which is one of the…
You don’t second guess your architect when they design a building.
My daughter in law has one of these. Bought it when her and my son moved to SoCal. She commutes 50 miles or so a day in LA traffic with it and it rarely goes anywhere else.
It’s ugly. The interior controls were designed by an idiot. For instance, it has a row of shiny black control buttons on a shiny plastic faceplate…
Apologies then. Thanks for the tip!
FTFY: “the van isn’t completely covered in rust...yet.”
It was my employer’s deal with Hertz...essentially renting out a small fleet (50 or 60) continuously for several years.
Worse yet each of these served as livery for four of the students that were attending the training.
That said, our favorite activities were 1) speeding to the Dallas county line on Friday afternoon…
In the 1980's I worked for a state agency whose auto fleet was mostly Fairmonts. Words cannot express how much I loathed those cars. I wouldn’t touch anything even remotely associated with the Fairmont.
Of course Karma’s a bitch...when I got a master’s degree and changed jobs I had to do sixteen weeks of training in…
Lordy I hope they fixed the center stack. We have a 2019 Ridgeline (top level trim) and the infotainment bit sucks. Let’s start with no physical knob for volume. It’s slow to start. It’s laggy (selecting an item and the intended action are usually a slow count to three apart). And you can’t use any of it if you’re…
And Hertz...
Even though the price on this is a bit stupid I’m a sucker for the car. We bought a 1995 Integra GSR brand new ($23K, I still have the price sticker!) and it was one of the family’s all time favorites. It was my wife’s car and she didn’t really appreciate it as enthusiastically as I did but loved it anyways. It was a…
Former Nashville resident here. Lived there until 1984 then moved for work. Have spent time there recently and the drivers are still the raging assholes I remember. It’s the only place I’ve seen a driver tailgate a howitzer . I do not exaggerate...the hood of this dork’s car was completely under the barrel of a field…
Just chiming in to say the same. I start the day with most of a pot of coffee and some NPCP. Love the stats! Happy New Year!
Yep, you’re right. I don’t have any pictures of it and shoulda just googled for the Wikipedia entry on Volvo’s history.
It breaks my heart but CP all the way. My first actual running car was a ‘66 Amazon and my family’s favorite car was a 1972 24x station wagon. Both wonderful cars but very much prone to rust.
The 240 series had the most comfortable seats on the planet...in the early 1980's my wife had a 1966 VW fastback with wonky…
I knew it was close but could not for the life of me find the exact model year when the 3 series got iDrive...still stand with my CP vote only because of owning an E39 M5 since 2011 and hold an expensive grudge...:-)
Not in the description but I think this vehicle may have one of the very early iDrive systems. That alone would put it in the CP...the first several generations of iDrive were absolute shit shows. My BIL bought a 6 series back in the day when he was raking in the dough from a sales job. It spent weeks in the shop…
“Flood damage” in North Carolina can have a particularly interesting twist. When we get hit with huge amounts of rain (say, from a Cat 3 hurricane) it often overflows the hog lagoons in the eastern part of the state. The overflow is carried out through the overloaded river system which, in turn, often floods our towns…
I’m taking bets on when HBO does a mini-series on the Trump presidency or some aspect of it (let’s say the Mueller investigation). Expecting Omarosa Manigault to either cameo or serve as script consultant (or both).