So on one hand, it’s a lightweight stickshift V8 sports car, and you don’t have to see the outside when you’re driving it. On the other hand, you DO have to see the inside. ND.

That’s a nice trick.

ND, perfect example of what we left behind in the Malaise Era. Any ‘98 compact pickup beats it in every way for half the price.

Some weird destructive things just tickle the right neurons for some people. Avoid the ones who don’t keep it to themselves.

Sounds like the difference between driving as fast as possible among highly skilled drivers with a reliably sloped friction curve, and driving to survive among distracted dumbasses with a friction curve like a crumbling precipice.

I want to read the version of this article that was written by someone who learned a little rhetoric and understands what “begs the question” means. “This BaT listing assaults logic and reason by rhetorically assuming ‘why?’ has any bearing on this purchase. One might as well ask ‘why a duck?’ as noted sage Chico Marx…

“Maybe when they get out from under The Herb, Jalopnik will finally have a grownup in the publishing pipeline to do some copyediting.” — me, back in October.

There was a Datsun 521 glider for sale down the road from me last year, but by the time I got up the gumption to LEAF-swap it, someone else had snapped it up. (Picture stolen from formulaimports.com)

Preznit Toddler learned a new word that gets him SO much attention every time he says it.

Hey now, all those companies had to raise prices in 2021-2023 for perfectly legitimate reasons that had nothing to do with yachts.

Norton Villiers Triumph reminds me of the crack about the Sears-KMart merger - “like roping two staggering drunks together in the hope they can collectively walk straight.”

The Magna engine is sweet. I sure wish they’d done another generation of the Sabre (Magna engine in a UJM frame.)

Damaskas offers a much more realistic portrayal of hooking up in a small car:

Road fleet’s pretty new these days, model years range from 1996 - 2001 but I’d like to switch out my Nissan pickup for an older one. We just got a ~1950 manure spreader to pull behind the 1984 Kubota though.

Those are fun. Ours developed an oil consumption issue but we tried some snakeoil that seemed to fix it, just before we sold it along.

Good call on the ‘yota. If it won’t fit in that, it’s worth having it delivered.

Nice! How’s the newer generation Magna? They fixed the top-end oiling right?

Bradley - I’ve been seeing folks all over on those Sur Ron knockoff electric MX bikes (Talaria Sting etc.) out west - have you seen them around Ohio?  Since they’ll do 40 MPH or so, people use them as unlicensed motorcycles on bike lanes, surface streets and minor highways, or go pretend they’re Twelve O’Clock Boys.

For ten years or so, my morning commute was in fact under a dozen miles and all surface streets (sometimes with short highway jaunts) though the best bike for that was a small Zero.

It’s freaky. No power even to the blackboxes 4 minutes before landing. With no hydraulics and no instruments, those heroes managed a controlled landing by just hauling on the controls and hoping for the best.