When I took my MSF class in 2010, when I first actually rode the motorcycle, I realized that I was drawing on two bodies of knowledge that I already had: my years of riding bicycles and my years of driving stick shift cars. Oh, and believe me, I have driven some of the world’s worst stick shift cars (‘64 super beetle,…

I am generally of your mindset that miles on the odometer aren’t that important, and I’ve gotten great deals for it. Last fall, got a steal on a WRX because it had 160,000 on the odometer. I took it in and had some generally maintenance things done, and it just keeps running like a baby.

Right, I have an s2000 and a wrx. The s2000 is a far more gratifying car to drive, but I drive the wrx much more frequently. Reason? The weather. (Also 4 doors and I have a dog.) But again, good god the ac Cobra evokes an emotional response in me. My gf is not a car person at all. She equates the s2000 to a miata and…

This car (AC shelby cobra), if I ever saw it in real life, would make my day. I nominate it as the # 1 sexiest and most bad-ass car of all time. Even my gf dropper her jaw and briefly lost her capacity for speech upon seeing one. I can’t nominate as an answer the question of the original article above, though, because…

CRX. Getting rarer and rarer on the road, but I dare any jalop to deny that the sight of a CRX makes their day better.

Seconded on Ford GT except that I don’t think I’ve ever seen on IRL, on the road. Here’s a list of cars that, when I see them, I get happy:
miata
lancer evo
any lotus
audi r8
wrx
toybaru
old nissan pickups (why? dunno)
any older, very small pickup (chevy luv, etc.) but esp. japanese
older vw gti in black with red details
crx!

I…

s2000.

The “oh shit” handles. Whenever I’m a passenger in a car that does not have one, my right hand is often pawing at the air looking for one.

Your video was excellent, where you acted out the parts of the service guys (“just enter all zeros”) and the salesperson. You should do more video posts to Jalopnik in which you act out other people. A one-man sketch comedy team.

I always hated the Dodge Durango.

Srsly that looks like dog crap.

I agree. The Honda Accord Crosstour looks horrible, is a design disaster.

The new Maxima. Where the hood meets the cabin is a disaster.

I know, right? Pic, tagline, wall of text is kind of a formula for print ads made nearly canonical by Ogilvie, YR, etc., and their peers in the late ‘50s. But once you recognize it as a formula, you also recognize it’s divorced from cars. To me, it is always fascinating to watch. To watch print ads for cars and to see…

Right? There’s a revealing moment right at about 2:39 that is during while the brake lights are coming on. There for a moment, those brake lights are only about half-illuminated. At that moment, you can see some of the structure of the actual brake light plastic and it is, for each brake light, two horizontal brighter…

Yeah, we’re gonna need the entire story before we get mad. I doubt that a very nice Porsche owner quietly left his car in his own driveway and that some random aggro douche went out of his way to vandalize. That’s just not nearly as likely as an alternative story in which—bit stretch here—some douche in Porsche did…

I believe that your ‘84 Escort represents the best deduction so far.

Citation, pinto, & GLC all ruled out for not having the hatch flatten out after the glass. Accord ruled back in for having it. Renault ruled out. the Accord has a deeply recessed license plate. Maybe could be ruled on that?

I can’t do a reliable freeze-frame on my laptop, but it looks like, right at 2:39 you can see the brake lights at intermediate brightness and they reveal themselves to be horizontally divided. E.g., each light comprises two horizontal portions, one above the other, with some darker portion between them. The Escort has…

Yup. Light from above rules out a bunch of the suggestions here.