Since when was a Delta 88 basic and no frills? My parents had a ton of those things, they had all sorts of fancy features for the time. And really weirdly loud clocks

The Chrysler LX platform is sticking around for a long time kinda like how you want, but generally speaking having a vehicle platform stick around forever like you want isn’t feasible anymore because of the need to keep up with crash, emissions & efficiency standards.

I’ve said many times - what America needs is a modern Delta 88. Basic, no frills, durable, boring, roomy, simple and cheap, built and sold en-masse, and left to age on a LONG running platform. I hope Ford does this - bring us the next Panther platform!  Go ahead and “OK Boomer” me (i’m GenX, but whatever) - it’s cool.…

I dig it. I would drive it. I’ve always wanted to do a project that could ACTUALLY get into a magazine, and this dude did. It’s cool as hell. $7K is ‘screw it’ money to a lot of folks. But, it’s also a 30 year old Taurus time capsule, and there’s lots of toys I (and probably most Jalops) would rather have chewing up…

All my 10mm sockets are in the same place that all my lighters probably went - you don’t really own this stuff - you just lease it from the universe for a while.

we’ve got a place with a good Poutine here in Joliet, Illinois too - it’s not rocket appliances..

typical rule of thumb - buying someone else’s build at 1:3 ratio (being generous) this is worth about $2500.   But in Alberta with all the slush money running around, someone will pay the guy’s ask (or close to it)

Poutine is an Eastern Canada thing - Alberta is like 4000 miles away fromand good poutine. You’d have done better with an oil, copper or gold reference.

I like it, and I hate BMW’s.  It’s a toy at this point, and as a toy, it’s something my wife would go out for ice cream with me in as it sits - meaning it’s not embarrassing to drive or be seen in.  Kinda boring for a toy though.  $4 grand and we’ll talk, so CP.

you only get 7 years before it rusts away completely now?   I got like 12 out of my last one LOLOL

good to know.

My 87 323 was far less rusty in 1995 than my 2007 3 was in 2009, let alone today.  I’ve never seen a Mazda that wasn’t rusty - and I’ve looked at literally hundreds of them.  They’re rusty on the new lot at the punch holes 

I’m about to go buy another Mazda of one ilk or the other to replace my rusty 3 - which was the least rusty one I could find for my daughter a few years ago - I sure hope you’re right, cuz she don’t want anything I suggest - Mazda or nothing for the princess.

Citations were FAR better built and FAR better cars.

Until Mazda’s don’t immediately begin returning to elemental iron beginning shortly after retail delivery, they will not be “Premium” to me or most people.

they were actually worse than ‘that bad’.  Actual garbage.

I had a 91 with the 3.1.  Steaming pile of hot garbage.

I drove a Town Car as one of the first Lyft and Uber drivers in Chicago for 2 years. People thought I was crazy for driving a Town Car vs a Prius or a Camry or, basically anything else. Those people were 100% wrong. AMA

Well said, and well written. I’m a proponent of EV’s for SOME portion of application. I work in the Warehousing industry - the industry largely converted to electric forklifts from propane a couple decades ago - in many applications, but not all, and for a variety of reasons. I understand the benefits and the…

you’re really bad at basic math, and really good at buying into bad math. *hint* - it’s the ‘per capita’ part of the equation. *hint 2* - most Chinese and Indian and other 3rd world ‘capitas’ live in huts and shit in a hole in the ‘yard’. It’s not the same thing, hence per capita CO2 emissions is a moronic metric