Another nice thing is, these things ARE SO COMMON IN MY TOWN of 40,000 PEOPLE IT HURTS. For every CUV owned by an old couple approaching their eighties, there are 3 80's Corvettes. That's a lot of Corvettes.

In my town, there are only two new car dealerships. The Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge-Ram one is family-owned and the salesmen aren't very nice either, and the Chevrolet dealership is owned by some old cowboy-looking guy. Seeing as you would have to drive 45 minutes to Las Vegas, NV to get to any other dealerships, they don't…

1989 Volvo 240DL – diesel wagon with a stick! For $2,500 this is practically the best Jalop car next to the Miata.

I get talked to like that whenever I go into any of the dealerships in my town, even the Chevrolet one.

Yep, it only works for a while. Just look at what happened to GM back in '08. People stopped buying their cars because they were so shitty. Couple that with the Great Recession, and GM tanks. I love GM and I always have since I was a little boy, but they really were always cheapskates. Now the new GM management is…

That is true. A nice displacement with a lot of torque is actually better for highway driving than a 1.4 litre four or three banger advertised as "EPA Estimated 40 MPG" and wonder why they're getting shit fuel economy in a Spark when you have to go wide open throttle just to get to 75.

Yeah, the V8 in the Corvette gets like 25 MPG it something on the highway. Five years ago, I would have laughed in your face if someone told me that a Corvette's V8 got that figure.

Kia needs to build this. The only shitty thing is, us car enthusiasts like it, but people with actual money don't. This won't sell, unfortunately.

That's how my Blazer is. I never thought of that until now. My exhaust is on the right, filler on the left. My mom's Kia Sedona, exhaust on the right, filler on the left. But I think my stepdad's TrailBlazer has the exhaust and filler on the left side of the car.

My daily has none of these things. Even the steeply-raked windshield of my Blazer would get rid of #1's safety features. But at least it's body-on-frame so as long as I don't hit anything really hard I'll be fine.

The console shifter. It is found in practically every car made now in some way shape or form. Unless it's a truck, it's going to have a console shifter if it's built in the past seven years.

The R33, by a technicality, is legal. But only because it was crash tested on European standards, which were very close to our US standards at the time the R33 was built. So yes, you can have (almost) have one (almost) easily.

That's sort of because GM sold the SSR as a future collector's car. Or at least that's how a lot of the owners treat their cars. And the bed didn't have a bed liner so the second you put a fridge or a desk in there, it would scratch your bright yellow (yellow is the more common colour) paint. So it wasn't useful as a…

Also true as well. ESC definitely does work when it's on, it saved my aunt and I from crashing on black ice a few weeks ago in Cape Cod.

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A little off-topic, but, as of 2012, all cars sold in the USA must have ESC standard. That's partly what killed the Viper for a couple of years since the NHTSA started phasing it in, in 2009 and completely by 2012.

I always thought the 442 just meant how large the engine was in cubic inches.

My 1998 Chevrolet Blazer has an owner's manual and I read it front to back and it's full of liability things that are put in there so if something happens, they can't be sued. But then, that's old GM management for you.

Just two weeks ago my mom, my sister, and I went to Massachusetts for my dad's funeral and we actually had a 200 as a rental. It was a 2015 200S and it was kind of nice, got pretty around 26-30 MPG and we spent less than $100 on gas for it, and we did a LOT of driving around MA and New Hampshire. It had a 9-speed…

Whoa. That is pretty.