“We’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty.”

I suspect they are going to be akin to superchargers where they don’t often show up in “higher risk” or low income parts of cities. As they don’t need to be as saturated as gas stations, they will probably only ever appear in upper middle class areas and beyond.

Willie Mays Hayes?

My fiancée wants a Maverick as her first new car in a while. I mean, this is something that gets within spitting distance of her Prius fuel economy but can also easily haul the car and motorcycle crap that I buy. The truck’s a win/win for her situation.

I’ll give you some insight from someone who sold Fords for 23 years (I started in 1997 at 20yrs old to Jan 31 2020 when I left due to severe Crohn’s Disease). I’m met Hau Tai-Tang. He’s a brilliant engineer and a true car guy (met him when he was the lead on the S197 Mustang in 2006 in Carlisle). He truly knows his…

This was also my first post-college “adult” car; I bought a 1998.5 model in the spring of 2001, with reasonably low mileage (around 27k miles, I think?). It was sporty enough to encourage you to drive spiritedly, but not so high-performance that a 23-year old could get into serious trouble with it (and also incur…

Great description in both the driving and reliability characteristics. I worked for a Ford dealership while in college and there was one of these on the lot as a trade in. I would often play gofer for the owners, run errands and such and we would just grab a car off the trade in/used lot to run around in. I drove the…

Vape if we’re lucky. I bet that thing has been hotboxed in so much you’ll get a contact high just from the door handles.

Jeebus, those fuckin’ wheels! Tells me all I need to know about the seller. The car has been flogged and otherwise mistreated, vape fumes lingering in the upholstery, and 99% chance he wears a flat-billed hat. Massive No Dice!

My guess is she never really wanted this, he just wanted an excuse to build his ideal Jeep.

The odd Haiku-like structure of the rest of the ad is. however, a bit hard to follow.

“For $2,000, you got a five-inch unit in a terrible position.”

The first generation Toyota Prius was essentially just a crappy Toyota Echo with a battery shoved in it. The second generation was when it really, truly became an interesting consumer product to be taken seriously.

60 year old British wiring? Probably easier to yank the existing harness and start fresh than spending the rest of your life chasing one electrical gremlin after another.

Any current model year Mazda that isn’t the Miata.

Yes. A stock DeVille/Fleetwood of the era was a fine, floaty cruiser and deserving of all the plaudits and about half the insults it would still receive to this day. Parts are easy to find (though not cheap), and maintenance/repair is easy for any capable shadetree home mechanic to keep this in fine fettle.

Yes! Was thinking the same thing before I saw your post. Here’s also a nice, manual blue one for $30K in nearby NY.

this is actually a sign of cocaine prices dropping.

Glen, I found the perfect car for you right there in Jersey. A 2019 Genesis G70 with an honest-to-God 3-pedal manual. While I’ve never driven a G70, the auto press, including more than one Jalop, have raved about it. Its a Genesis, so it it has all the bells and whistles Hyundai can throw at it. Its based on a Kia, so…

No offense, but the buyer would almost certainly be best off buying out his lease and waiting until the inventory situation improves before replacing it. I’m also at the tail-end of a lease for a vehicle I don’t particularly love. I’m looking forward to driving something else, but I’m buying it out and waiting at…