What’s Russian for Mr. Bean?

I’ll bet this is a 1- or 2-owner car, and whoever owned it longest grew up in the Depression, trained to waste nothing and make everything last. This could have been my father-in-law’s car. It will probably last longer than it has any right to. NP.

Friendly? Creepy? Friendly? Creepy?

A lot of trouble to go to for something that ain’t all that special. ND.

This would get big nostalgia points from my wife, who slept many nights in one of these on a cross-country trip with her family as a kid. Seems nice if that’s your thing. NP.

As an old, my most vivid memory of this is from one night when I was driving my daughter back from UMass to NJ. We passed within range of one of the NJ colleges, and she checked in and uttered one of the strangest sentences I’ve ever heard: “This Yak isn’t bumpin’.”

One of the underappreciated moments in all of moviedom.

For the right buyer, this is toy money for a fun toy. NP all day.

Oh please, I still find Subaru’s trim levels incomprehensible.

Primitive safety tech. In a collision, his head goes right through the wheel without hitting anything.

“Yeah, they named me Ami. I’m not your friend.”

Wow, I didn’t think this would touch such a nerve. Consider where the industry is headed, the way environmental regulations are going and likely to go, and the faster-than-expected climate effects from our carbon emissions.

The permission to shoot on Lego beach fell through at the last minute, so they had to make do.

I think we have to acknowledge the time is coming when it will be very difficult to own any ICE car except as an inert object for display. That will greatly shorten the list of cars worth collecting, and this won’t nearly make the cut.

Completely thinking out loud here, but maybe this part has something to do with it?

It started innocently enough.

I like green. My name looks like a ransom note cut-and-pasted from the Cork phone book. But even I have my limits. And I’m not sure this would be enough fun to compensate for the inevitable problems.

I’m sensing a “just not for me” theme among the NP voters. That’s also my thinking. The basket handle concept is hard to pull off, and I never warmed up to Ford’s take on it here. But my, this is clean. You could stand out at the show or Cars & Coffee, and/or you could do hilarious sleeper things. NP for the right…

There was nothing visceral about the C4's styling, but it was clean and modern, and it matched the serious intentions underneath. To me it represents when GM started to get earnest about making the ’Vette into a world-beater. It wasn’t there yet by a long shot, but it was a start.

Reminds me of the time, back in my first career act as a reporter, when I was covering what passes for a wildfire in New Jersey. The photographer riding along goaded me to drive my ’88 Horizon down a fire road into the woods. When I could go no farther, we stopped and hoofed it to meet the fire crew in their awesomely…