The color keyed wheels are a nice touch. They didn't all have those though. Oh, and the dashboard was Eightiestastic.

Isn't this a lot like something else from that period (don't remember what), except for the terrible front end?

But you could tell by the extra black paint parts etc. Would have been better normal looking!

Quick back then isn't quick today. It's all relative. The grannywagon might have been among the fastest cars at the time.

Heavy tends to come with big. Hear they are working on that though.

So much wrong with that comment of mine....426 not 428, and apparently they did put hemi heads on it. And if it went into that body, well, it would be really tight.

I'm pretty sure they never put hemi heads on the later 428. It would have made it a whole different engine. The original hemi went though 1957 or so when the big wedge came out. And the Belvedere intermediate body would have been too narrow for hemi heads anyway.

To be fair, those are really Ghia (probably) DeSotos, very low production and expensive cars with some Desoto bits, probably inside and underpinnings. Here's a real Desoto from the classic (to me) period.

I'd rather have Citroen and Renault.

I really don't think anyone much anymore wants to buy a car without airbags and ABS and crash ratings, even more important if they want to drive fast. When you can choose something else to do the job that won't kill or maim you permanently, why not? Cool and unique only go so far. Not breaking also.

Maybe the photo will work this time.

TVRs were always wacky and homemade, and always nothing like real life and the design always worked anyway, if not the actual car. The last one, Sagaris.

OK then, Borgward too.

I forgot to mention that another writer said about the original type Saturn that it's not easy to make a car that rides poorly and also handles poorly, but they managed to. Poor NVH too.

Like some writer wrote, no car company ever got so far with a carnation and a smile. The plastic construction was always going to cost more than metal, although it had its good points. Not the big shut lines though. The original cars were styled like 7/8 scale Oldsmobiles, instead of being practical and original in…

Not always reliable, and never good.

Pretty cool. Just guessing, but I don't think there was a 455 in 1959, but there was later. But the po-lice rarely if ever drove them.

What's the maintenance on an under 30K miles car anyway? Changing the oil a couple of times. And if the rental is a boring car to begin with, it was probably driven in boring ways.

Isn't the Ram/Ducato FWD so it has a lower floor?

And before lockup torque converters.