...you’re nearing the danger zone as far as maintenance and reliability goes.

It’s fascinating to watch Republicans trip over themselves. I’m waiting to see how they process the fact that they’re bogeyman Xi is cozying up to their buddy Putin.

I’ll just always remember what a hateful thing the old one was. Eastbound, I had to stay in the right lane to be ready for my exit, and there was a pronounced seam in the concrete deck that tracked perfectly with your left tires.

We also biased our product mix toward pick-up trucks and SUVs.

There are certain old cars that, when you see them, are almost always some level of fright pig. People long ago stopped caring enough to keep them nice. And then one like this reminds you that even those cars were once shiny and fresh, with a proud owner. It’s jarring and kind of fun to see. But it’s not $14K fun.

The Pulaski Skyway in New Jersey. A 90-year-old bridge, two narrow-ish lanes each direction, no shoulders, Mad Max drivers gunning for the Holland Tunnel. The speed limit is 50 (HA!), but there’s nowhere for a cop to set up shop if they wanted to, so it’s anything goes for 3.5 miles. One entrance ramp comes up from…

Contrarian view, if I had frivolous disposable income, I would buy it, freshen up what needed freshening, and drive it. I assume by ’94 many of the early C4 teething problems were far in the past. So, in 2023 you have an essentially factory fresh and somewhat unique C4 with some modern safety kit such as airbags and…

I know you wouldn’t DD this, but it’s just an objectively awful car by modern standards and not that attractive to me. I much prefer the look of the wild ’60s Eldo. I seem to be in the minority, but ND.

95 through the Philly area has been under construction–all the same project–since 2009. The last section is scheduled to be done in 2031. I wonder how many times the first section will have been resurfaced by then. Or will they just start the whole cycle over?

I won’t fault a busy young parent for not having time/energy to de-kid the car before snapping the pics. And the new battery takes away one source of anxiety I would have in buying a 6-year-old EV. But in the end it’s still a 6-year-old econobox, just electric. I’ll pass.

Is this one of those zombie GM products that will keep running when it looks and feels like it should be dead? If so, excellent casting.

Only if it comes with a lawyer in the back seat, because you’re gonna need one.

Little fact check here, the caller was male.

Since we’ve already covered the Jersey Left (jughandle, thank you very much), a word about Jersey traffic circles. However you feel about rotaries/roundabouts/whatever, in most places they have consistent rules. In New Jersey, right of way is often determined by which is the most major roadway feeding into the circle.

Good bones, well kept, NP. But that dash. There’s nothing really wrong with it, but it’s weird. The IP is aggressively generic and disproportionately large, like it was lifted from a bigger car. The passenger side with its molded cubby just screams econobox. A weird meeting of Mercury and Mazda DNA.

So, he’s driven it all of 22,000 miles, and it’s been great, just great, but...?

I’ve always asssumed they didn’t want to go to the trouble and expense of wagon-specific doors, so they fudged the trim around the windows.

Interesting as a “what-if” brought to life, but would you pay anything close to this for the Chevy counterpart, same age and condition? That’s a big premium to say you have a Ford Suburban. ND.

I hear a flapping sound, which is the seller running up the white flag on his project. ND.

A. How are those miles distributed across the years? Did it sit for decades, and if so, have the rubber bits been refreshed?