I always thought they were pretty nice too, considering the times. 

Too bad it’s not Toyota still selling a first gen Tacoma.

I’ll say it: The Lamborghini Countach. 

Agreed. I often dream about keeping a small sledgehammer in my car and getting out and smashing the LED light bar of the lifted bro-truck behind me at seemingly every stoplight in SWFL, but I know it would get me killed.

ND. The market for these cars is literally dying off, and whoever buys this is going to be holding a slowly deteriorating white elephant (again, literally). 

Ok, first off — it’s kind of a neat little specimen, in an oddball sort of way. But as a purchase — ND. You’d essentially spend thousands of dollars to get it running right, thousands more to get it to look decent, hundreds of HOURS, too, and then – when it’s all done – you’d drive if for about 30 minutes before…

Arrivederci, Fiat.

That thing looks uglier and dumber every time I see it. Every. Single. Time.

How does this list not begin and end with all those truly awful BMW SUVs? (though feel free to keep the Cybertruck and Ram trucks in between).

I’ve always had a bit of a sort spot for these, but looking at this one and seeing the radio issue, the neglected warning light issue, and the cheap-skate “I’ll just throw these old Firebird mats in there” approach to car care makes me think “needs a little TCL” is the sellers “I hope they won’t notice”…

I think part of “The Road” was filmed there.

If there’s a crowdfunding page for this effort, please send me the link -- I’m in for $50.

I want a Toyota sports car that’s affordable, reliable, and relatively simple. And styling that’s a bit Japanese-funky yet not full-on LSD trip. Bring back something akin to a MR2 or Celica and you’ll have my interest.

I admit I saw those and immediately thought you could buy the car, make two killer desk chairs out of those, a coffee table from the engine block, part out a few of the other Maserati-badged pieces as wall art or pieces for basement bars, then sell the frame and body as scrap. You might even break even and never…

I’d love to see research on what cars people bought after owning a BiTurbo in the 1980s. I’m guessing the appeal was to Yuppie types that liked the Maserati name and wanted to one-up their BWM driving friends. But then burned, they went on to what? A series of Alfas, then Lexuses, and then ended up being the…

I always kind of dug those Regal GS sedans, too. And remember the Bonneville SSE? GM was taking some interesting swings back then.

Exactly. People don’t buy a G-wagon for design. They buy them for status. 

I don’t care how fast it is, I look at that thing and see absolutely nothing special. It just looks like one of a thousand awkwardly styled BMW SUVs that I’ve seen on the road for a decade. 

Down the rabbit hole we go:

“The Strange Last Voyage of David Crowhurst” is one of the best sailing reads ever written, IMHO.