Manual Fairmont Ghia?

I have to agree about all the pre-airbag Porsches from the '80s and early '90s having fugly steering wheels. It looks more suited to a '70s Kombi than a performance car.

Agreed. If I lived in North America and wanted an affordable older car to just cruise about in, it'd get a look in from me.

Reminds me of this...

They are classically elegant and will probably be remembered for being the last of the Pininfarina influenced Peugeots. 406s also drive well for a wrong wheel driver as well.

Obviously the various RenaultSport RS Clios and Meganes are the most obvious good French cars, but there are some other greats as well;

A friend of my parents had a 130 Coupe back in the '80s and I always thought he had a very cool car. You should keep looking for another. A Mercedes 450SLC is a very nice car and technically better than the 130, but the 130 is not a car you see all that often and they have a unique charm.

Fiat used to make great luxury coupes once. The Dino 2400 coupe and the 130 Coupe are also very nice cars.

Best looking Alfa sedan ever, shame they ruined it with a torque-steering FWD chassis and comedy electrics. As a kid, I would pester my parents to consider one as the family car. Being responsible adults, they said no. Due to the colour of this one and the fact it has no future as a collectors car, I'm going to…

Or,

What about the McLaren F1? That central driving position, lack of any power assistance for anything and lack of driver aids in a very fast car mean that everyone who has one seems to crash it, or crap themselves nearly crashing it.

Has anyone mentioned the McLaren F1 yet? Like just about everyone, I've never driven one, but I've yet to hear of an owner who hasn't crashed theirs or come close. A very fast car with no power assistance for the brakes or steering, no ABS, traction or stability control and that central driving position would put it…

Compared to a Toyota Hilux, which is probably one of the easiest-to-drive manual cars. No wonder Land Rover lost just about all their market share here.

Australia and Japan too.

Now that Ford has killed the Australian Falcon, we want the Mustang in Australia, with a range of V8 and turbo six engines. This means the Mustang must be made with a steering wheel on either side. Oh, and it has to be as good to drive (or better) as the latest Falcon and Chevy SS. Otherwise, Ford will be dead to…

I voted NP, because for what they're asking, it looks very legit.

Really? I can recall them giving snaps to the Brera and the 159, which are both painfully sub-par and ugly. I'm 30 and I remember the adults around me driving 105-GTVs, 'suds and various Alfettas as a child. When thinking about classic cars, I rarely give any of these cars of my childhood any thought at all. Is…

Make it stop!

As I've already mentioned before, I have to completely disagree with the whole 'true petrol-head must own an Alfa Romeo' nonsense these 3 go on with. Why? They're gutless, small-engined, front-wheel drive econoboxes. For 'Muricans haven't seen Alfas for a long time, you're not missing out on anything. They are…

A particularly heinous person I have the displeasure of knowing has an Alfa 156 with Selespeed, no less and can't resist an opportunity to tell all and sundry what a superior car it is to anything else on the road. Said person constantly mentions the many mechanical and electrical failures their Alfa has and manages…