First and only was a '90 Calais sedan, a hand-me-down from the in-laws that arrived with 115K on the clock. By most measures it was a miserable car—ugly, slow, crude—but it was indestructible. The torque converter problem that had me ready to send it to the crusher was solved by pulling a blue plug under the hood to…

So this allows the automakers, if they choose, to resume digging the very hole in which they are now trapped. If gas prices go down and the economy picks up, three shifts of Tahoe production again! Go for it! Make a big fleet sale of (insert econobox here) and push the hard decisions off another five years!

@jip1080: GM=General Malaise

@Graverobber: Put all three together and call it Lancilat.

Reminds of the late '60s American LaFrance pumper our local fire department had when I was a kid. We had some major hills in town, so they went for maximum horsepower. You could hear that thing half a mile away WITHOUT the siren.

Did he ever get the sheet metal wrapped around this?

Given the likely emissions from a 1971 Hungarian bus, I'd say the difference is one has spoiler and the other has a despoiler.

I remember the warnings not to park OVER things (leaves) when catalytic converters first appeared. But UNDER things? Sheeesh...

This is just what all the Subie boy racers need to read. I can hear them beating their chests and running for the parking lot...

My daughter (age 16) was practicing parallel parking just the other day. This is funny. Yet not funny. Funny. But somehow not. Amusing. But painful. A hoot. A primal scream...

I remember the commercials for the 1st gen Sable—they used the Temptations' version of "Get Ready." A very effective spot, because it's stuck in my mind after all these years. The car looked even more radical than the Taurus at the time.

Watch out for the app that sucks your wallet clean when you click on it.

Not just great car pictures...great art. Puts these cultural icons in context with a wonderful sense of color, texture, design, composition, the whole package. Thanks, Murilee!

Sadly, my first and only was an '88 Horizon. Terrible handling and ergonomics, but the 2.2 gave it more than enough oomph.

Going for the easy ones: Galaxie, Sedan de Ville, Corvair, Ventura. Too many are just a little before my time.

Take it on the freeway, for more glass in your beard.

At least Edgar has the good sense to separate the eating and driving rooms. I'm sure real carmakers would lump them together with the screening room, Internet cafe and everything else that has nothing to do with driving.

Confirms my desire for a Subie next time I'm shopping. The kid down the street has a garden-variety Impreza that he takes off-road hooning; as we speak, it's covered roof to rocker panels in a delicious mud glaze. Mind you, I just need something to get up my hill in the winter, but based on this video, I've got the…

@P161911 now with M POWER!: Could be a chance for a brand that wants to get going on a shoestring. At least in NJ, I get the impression a lot of the Chrysler stores closing up have small and/or obsolete facilities; I would expect the same when GM drops the axe. But if the upstarts are looking for modern, empty stores,…

A lot of small in-town stores gone, as expected, but highway mega-dealers with shady reputations didn't get a free pass. Give 'em credit for that.