My go-to at my high school’s driver’s ed classes was a Concord.  I loved it.  Thing was an absolute tank but completely tractable.  No surprises, ever, and that was exactly how a young, unsure driver wanted it.

Dude.

This was what was on our 1970 96:

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: AMC.

Oof. That was some of the most obnoxious sound I have ever encountered.

Too new for Radwood but too good to pass up. It looks nearly new, the MBTex interior will securely coddle your dessicated mummy into the year 4021 and the engine is solid. I understand some of its electronics can be a hassle but I’m betting that, in 27 years and a quarter-million miles, anything failure prone has…

In true Harley fashion you can expect the aftermarket to line up with noisemakers that make the bike even louder.

What people forget is that, horrendous styling aside, the Aztek was actually a pretty good car. If you could just keep your eyes shut tight as you walked toward it, once you got inside you had a decent interior, a competent, lightweight AWD system and accessories that made it an outdoor enthusiast’s reluctant first…

‘Memba back in the day when AMC was trying not do die and they would dig into their parts bins and slap together new cars out of stuff they had lying around?

You know the saying: “It answers questions no one asked.” The Nissan Morono Crosseyed Capriccio goes beyond merely answering those unuttered questions, it asks altogether new ones. It screeches them into the sky, in Klingon, tearing its hair and beating its breast. In any language it is the unanswerable despairing…

Look at it.  It doesn’t say Polaris anywhere on it.

I dunno man, the Chrsyler corporate 2.5 mill can really grind out some good numbers for what it is. These late-run common block engines are the toughest out there and can easily handle modified horsepower. Two hundred horses out of a 2.5 Turbo is relatively easy to do; the factory was doing that and enthusiasts have…

Woohoo!

Call me crazy but I’m pretty stoked.

I like the cut of Torch’s jib. Better yet, try this:

I’m thinking the Helix is probably ridden by ultraconservative riders. The naked scooters are surrounded by dead kids, the Cub by untold numbers of Asians who flocked to them in droves, all the Harleys and Indians probably didn’t kill their riders as much as the riders died of a fatal combination of diabetic coma…

I actually remember that exact ad. The one that called out the taillights as being better, which meant that the Granada, by extension, was better.

That’s an awful lot of power on a featherweight bike.

IIRC the one he’s installed is a Blink takeoff unit. It had something go kerflooey inside and he wound up gutting it and building in a new controller, removing an estimated 5 lbs of extraneous wiring in the process. A couple of features are gone as a result but no longer being connected to the Blink network, no loss.

Market segment I always thought the Taunus was approximately where the Granada was in the US, though size-wise it was almost a one-to-one comparison with the US Maverick. The American Granada was considerably larger than the European model, even though in terms of interior size class it and the Maverick were in the…