For example, a 1969 Malibu was $2500, which would be $17k today. A 2018 Malibu starts at $21k and is a fucking alien spaceship comparatively.

I want to know where the non jacked up “Outbacked” version is with the 4motion AWD and 6spd manual.

The car is generally meh, I don’t mind the grille too much, it’s not wonderful but I don’t hate it. but...

I’ll be that guy who doesn’t like the headlights. I’m pretty tired of cars with headlights that look like the designer went into Adobe Photoshop and used the smudge tool to, smear the headlights up the hood and…

We have a long term rental Altima in the driveway at the moment, while my MiL’s Ford waits on an airbag recall. It’s a perfectly fine wonderful car except for the #*&%ing God awful CVT transmission. Which pretends to shift gears, but does it at weird RPMS, and holds “gears” way too long, not downshifting when you want…

That’s Mike’s Harlequin. I said the same thing to him on the forums when he put the new wheels on it. I much preferred his old wheels.

I had hopes that Mazda twould make a Coupe.

I wonder if the 124 Abarth is going to get a similar bump too. They have the same 1.4t that my 500Ab has, and an ECU flash easily puts them over 200hp.

Doug DeMuro just did a review on a GT that was $53k and not even fully loaded. Yeah they start somewhere around mid/upper $30s, but you can easily load that sucker up to mid $50ks now.

I see your point, though the biggest variable is housing. In my area of the southeast, you’d pay $150k for 1,500 sq ft.

Midwest. 78,000 for 1,200 sq/ft

3rd Gear: The length of autoloans is directly related to not just the the price of vehicles, but the price of everything. We live in a world where a Mustang GT is $50k. A Chevy Tahoe starts at $48k. A Honda Accord starts at $25k. But also the price of housing is through the roof. New 1400sq/ft. homes here sell for…

I was a kid when they came out in ‘98. I was 19 I couldn’t afford much. I tried to buy a silver one on one of Ford’s many 0% financing deals and dealership shot me down. “Yeah we can’t do that on anything with an SVT badge”. So I never got the chance to own one sadly.

SVT Contour. I have always loved these things.

If only it were available with a manual transmission like my ‘97 Passat VR6 Wagon was.

I agree.

I know this article is satire and all, but the “super sized” trucks that plague the road today are a damn nuisance. Don’t get me wrong I have nothing against trucks. I currently own a ‘70 C-10 and an ‘89 F-150 long bed, and have owned a ‘78 J-10, 72' K-20, and ‘85 D-50 in the past. That said, I drove my ‘70 1/2 ton…

CAFE is the reason for this plague upon us, but not for the reason you gave. CAFE set the targets for fuel ecconomy based on vehicle “footprint” back in 2011. Which meant that the larger a vehicles footprint was (track x length) the lower it’s fuel ecconomy requirement was. So it was much easier for the manufacturers…

....the very first thing I do whenever I get a new car is to grab a towel and a ball peen hammer. I fold the towel up a few times, hold it over the driver’s side fender just behind the wheel well, and give it a nice solid thwack with the ball-peen hammer.

It’s one of the reasons I bought a Fiat 500 Abarth. It is about as close as you can get to what the ‘90s cars were in today’s standards.

I used to have them on display. They just look really cluttered and messy. And are quite the dust trap.