I'll give it nice price, but I'm not very fond of these. It hasn't aged well; vaguely reminds me of an overinflated Ford Probe. And before you had texting and GPS to distract you into a ditch, you had the center stack on this car. #bmw840ci

Safety glass? Feh! If your head goes through that side window, it will decapitate you, and by gum you'll like it! #truckmonday

I think jets are being born from this. #saab

@SagarikaLumos: Yeah, the more I look at it...p-shop, except maybe the tape on the headlights. #ateam

@Maxichamp: Actually, it was his mom's fault. #accidents

@MaroonZ28: Yes...the design language of yesteryear worked because it was possible for cars to be physically and visually lighter. Modern safety standards produce beefier cars, and when you try to overlay retro designs on that, it rarely works. I see this every time I get close to a new Camaro or Challenger. The…

+1 on the narrow greenhouses. There's a concept in design called 'negative space,' and a good-sized greenhouse provides that in automotive design, while making the interior more inviting and less cave-like.

From the A-pillar back, it could be any smallish CUV. The front wheel arches are Mazda, and the snout is an incoherent mess. Meh. #mitsubishi

I'm glad Peter acknowledges the plight of suburbanites, which is especially acute for those who live AND work in suburbia. Take I-287 in NJ, originally planned as a kind of outer beltway for the NYC megalopolis. Instead it became its own corridor of development, both commercial and residential, and hundreds of…

It's very appealing, even with the top looking like a tent that's been rained on a bit too much. But I'm just not parting with $18,500 for something that small unless it's studded with precious stones. #miniconvertible

@twitchykun (Level 1 Jalop-Knight): It's the Ribbed Hood of Death! Run! #qotd

@Ash78 ain't got time to bleed: People park really fast in, say, Jersey City or Hoboken, because a) there's always somebody behind you with no room to pass and b) parking by sound is acceptable. #parallelparking

If you could have the spare do double duty as the 5th wheel, you might have something there. #parallelparking

Usually, the tradeoff with any kind of drop-top is the awkward roofline when the top is up. This, on the other hand, is actually an improvement over the hardtop. The wheels are a little donkish, but overall, I like this. #1985bmw318ibaur

Driving my '88 Horizon down a fire road in the woods. This was during my reporter days; I was covering what passes for a wildfire in NJ, and the photographer goaded me into attempting it. I didn't get stuck, but I eventually had to ditch it and walk, until the firefighters made me go back and move it to make way for…

So, it'll put out 100,000 kill-a-volts?

I don't see why this is a problem. Keep refreshing Google Street View, and you can follow the road ahead without ever taking your eyes off the screen. #novelties

Pink on almost anything. #qotd

I'm partial to that iteration of the Crown Vic. Something about the greenhouse and the overall lines succeeded in lightening a heavy-looking car. #hondacivic

That's no Rabbit. The grille is all wrong. #carart