My dealer gave me one of these as a loaner while my F80 M3 was being serviced.

$70k and it comes in glossy grey primer? Yeeeesh. 

“Especially when certain dealerships put license plates on like this.”

Sorry.

Everyone that knows cars - “Minivans are horrible, would never own one.”

Seizing boats is good for the cameras, and yes, oligarchs supporting Putin should be punished. However... let the crews stay on and maintain the boats. Boats at anchor/dockside decline fast. They need constant upkeep or through-hulls leak, fluids escape, wood decking rots, barnacles build up creating nutrient plumes…

That reminds me of the portion of exposed intake manifold on my in-laws’ 2006 Pontiac G6 GTP. My father-in-law is 100% sure that ‘thing’ is the ‘supercharger’ despite me telling him the contrary over and over.

More elaborate pranks could involve:

FYI: that symbol never actually indicated a turbocharged car, as Aaron Severson mentions in his article on the Grand National and GNX.

Delusions of grand (national)eur!

Not all rare things are valuable. This is one of those things. It’s so rare, in fact, that virtually nobody knew they existed, and now that everybody does nobody cares that they didn’t know. No dice.

This sounds like the perfect car for you if your idea of fun is going to car meets and spending the whole time arguing that your car IS a legitimate Grand National, and not just a Lesabre with Grand National badges. If your dream car doesn’t involve a life time of “Well, akshully…” with strangers, then look elsewhere.…

That’s the LEAST grand, Grand National I’ve ever seen. Sad-looking, dirty and ignored, with a puny engine.

My mail carrier typically parks their van somewhere in the neighbourhood and does the deliveries on foot, how is this any different? Now, I don’t think you’ll see the sort of density that’d justify one of these outside of a few townhouse complexes maybe, but climate shouldn’t be an issue.

Quick, call the CEO of UPS before he makes this huge mistake!

I’m surprised. The bicycle market, another industry that exploded in ‘20/’21, has notably cooled according to the shops who post on my local forum. It can be a long wait for some models but the days are gone when it was hard to find anything. The last shop I visited had so many bikes that it was hard to walk around…

That and the fact politicians stayed in D.C. over the weekends, attended the same parties etc. instead of flying back to the states they represented. It’s easier to work out politics if you also have a personal relationship.

It was a different time when both parties had conservative and liberal wings that often had more in common with each other than the other end of the party. It made making some compromises a lot easier.

In 2009 I bought my first car, a Saab 900, for $900. Now people want more than that for a parts car.

Yeah. So I looked. Cheapest 2nd Gen Fit. around me.