In 1995 I bought a 1989 XJS with 130,000 miles on it. Black with biscuit leather interior...Dayton wire wheels. It was the car I dreamed about and I finally owned it. Thanks to a $8900 loan from the credit union.

But, please, stay off the lawn while we’re talking.

I owned several diesel Rabbits back in the mid 80s. The only people that love them today are people who never owned one. 40mpg? Possibly, if you don’t mind holding up traffic. You’re working with either 48 or 52HP depending on which engine you have. I once had to leave the rear hatch raised in order to haul a Honda…

Note the use of words like “Will cut”, “Will save”, and “ambitious agreement”. The climate change conspiracy depends on nothing actually getting done. Progress will always arrive in the future - and hopefully past our current lifetimes. Why? Because if meaningful progress in carbon reduction was made today it would…

No, that’s the only cylinder head. It covers both banks of pistons. Count the plug wires :)

Trivia tidbit; Autozone used to be AutoShack back in the 1980’s. Why did they change the name? Because everyone confused the name with Radio Shack. When I worked at AutoShack as a cashier, it seemed every other customer wrote their check out to Radio Shack.

we have “parts4u”

The 1st gen MR2 had very little aftermarket performance support when new and even less now. Cusco, HKS, and a tiny bit of TRD parts were the only options. I can scribble the name of every quality performance part that was ever offered in the aftermarket for 1st gen MR2 on the back of a postage stamp. The 4AGE is an…

It seems cheesy to advertise my business for free on Jalopnik. That would be cheating. Our primary business is thru ebay, but we do have a web store.

Those are the 1985-1986 OEM seats. They were also available with red accent panels or blue. I promise you the driver side seat bolster shows plenty of wear.

You’ll be glad to know that funding for the study of the mating habits of the Northeastern spottled marmoset was re-appropriated for another fiscal year.

Technically, it’s 10,000 miles per year

Yet we’re supposed to believe Hillary Clinton is the answer?

I mean, you guys have Hillary.

Well, in the case of a new car purchase you will not “be on top”. You will be losing 10% per year of the value of your purchase. The bottom line is that buying a new car is an inherently awful “investment”.

Not the best vehicular investment you can make. When I was younger every shopping mall had a DeLorean on display somewhere. The sticker price? $25,000

The DNC still owes $10 million for their convention in Charlotte, NC

I owned a 1989 XJS for several years and “gentle”, I suppose, describes it pretty well. Although I never would have used that word. I used it as a daily driver back when gasoline was $1.20/gallon. It had a trip computer that would show instantaneous MPG. For the curious, it would display between 1 & 12 depending on my…

Awesome. Police in the USA don’t even apologize when they shoot unarmed people for a misdemeanor violation.

Nah, let’s save our anger for the $14,000 in taxes we spend per capita to feed and house people so they make more fatherless babies - that we get to feed and house until they make more fatherless babies...