It’s an Avant, so there’s lots to love. But it’s an early 2000's Audi built on the B5 platform, so anyone considering it would need to understand it will be a maintenance queen. It might be alright for an Audi enthusiast with the skills to avoid the bills, but it will bleed anyone else to death in regular increments…

This OG from ‘82. Probably the first time cars were rendered in a video game with such detail that they were instantly recognizable as something that existed in the real world, instead of having to use your mind’s eye to see one as anything other than a rectangle with 4 squares attached for wheels.

So, it has a vinyl wrap to protect the paint, but I suppose doing even the bare minimum to correct the ugly headlight crazing was a bridge too far? There is a horror story under that vinyl, guaranteed.

I love Volvo dearly, but they seem to be having a difficult time identifying their target market. The c30 was also aimed at “young, first-time Volvo customers” and failed spectacularly at connecting with that segment, aside from a barely-there appearance in a Twilight film. And things have only gotten worse since…

I have no questions about the “vehicle”, but I am beyond intrigued by the seller. To be clear, Electrameccanica is buying these back at full MSRP. Instead of fucking about and trying to squeeze extra money from an actual lemon, this person should be racing to the manufacturer with bill of sale in hand to collect a chec…

Yup. Both Kappa platform cars (Solstice & Sky) were front of mind for me. I don’t think it would have saved Pontiac or Saturn, but GM could have had something special if they allowed the platform to ripen on the vine long enough to see a second generation, and addressing some of the initial shortcomings of the first. 

A lot of almosts, but only one that I occasionally look back and think “what if?”

Usually on their third or fourth owner and abused by each. Stupid “go fast” logos applied by idiots in crayon or marker, presumably adding 5hp each. Teeth marks in weird places. Truly the worst.

Although mundane as hell, it would certainly be 2,800 miles cross-country in a large U-Haul box truck while also towing a car on a flatbed, sitting on a non-reclining bench seat with the padding of a prison cot that was permanently fixed at 90 degrees. This was also in the long, long ago (AD 2000) before smartphones,…

Came here to say this. The Evora is among my top 3 picks that I’m considering after my wife and I relocate and acquire a home with a larger garage. A quick scan shows this one is a bit overpriced compared to multiple examples within the same price range with about 25k fewer miles, or when an “S” can be acquired for…

Unique enough to be lovable. I actually have an illustrated print of this car above the butcher block in our kitchen, and I’m not even a Porsche guy!

I feel like the only person on the planet who is completely unbothered by the Panamera. I think the challenge is decoupling Porsche’s modern family of higher volume models from several decades of small sports cars, which has created an ingrained prejudice for how a Porsche is “supposed” to look. Is the Panamera any…

For sure, graphics were at their peak zenith in the 90's. I can so clearly visualize that Tracker in teal with hot pink graphics down the side, screaming “Tracker” in a faux airbrushed font. I also remember them often having body-matched painted wheels too. Wild but great times.

It would be difficult for anyone who was alive or old enough in the 90s to forget this. This single car really turned the American auto industry on its head with its whimsical and youth-oriented marketing campaign. Also, totally wild that you could buy one from any Dodge, Plymouth, or Chrysler dealership.

Thinking past the big “halo” cars of the 1990's (300ZX, RX-7 FD, Supra, Viper) I more vividly recall the burgeoning market for weird little captive imports like the Geo Tracker, Mercury Capri, and so many others. For a brief moment, these things were positively everywhere, and often in cheerful colors that we don’t…

Volkswagen Phaeton. While a 6-liter W12 sounds amazing on paper, it was dropped into a package that simply looked like a tarted up Passat. Born from an overly ambitious, unnecessary, and poorly executed vanity project that utterly failed to transform VW’s image in the US or anywhere else. Who was this for, and why…

Anecdotal and unrelated to the question at hand, but a close friend had a mother who owned (and still owns) a bright orange Vibe GT while he drove a Miata. Hearing him say “I’ll just borrow my mom’s Vibe” any time he needed to carry something larger than a couple of boxes, and then seeing his brain catch up with the…

If it were an Aero-X, it might push me towards NP. I do love SportCombis but have to vote ND on this otherwise vanilla example. Props to the owner though for keeping this one so clean and obviously replacing the Saab medallions, which would have peeled down to bare metal by this point.

The 365 GT4. The internet tells me this particular example was owned by Bill Cosby, so there you have it.

I back this to an extent, regarding cameras and blind spot detection. I don’t have hard data, but my personal experience from once being a young driver, coupled with seeing three nephews each go through the new driver phase, is that most of their accidents are caused by simply lacking experiential awareness about…