The Colt was also sold here as the Plymouth Champ. I know, because I owned two of them — a ‘79 with a 4 speed with 2 shift levers, one for overdrive. You could shift that thing just like a Freightliner. And a ‘86 Turbo, which was a blast to drive but not durable at all.

If your kid gets in an accident at any significant speed in this car, your kid will probably die.

Alonso could “easily” win this race?

How does this work? Do they modify their diesel rigs to dump extra fuel into the system? Or just alter the tuning?

And for gods sake don’t say “Citation”. They’re still a little sensitive about that one.

“What’s the first thing you think of when I say Chevy?”

Mom told me I was conceived in the back of a 55 Chevy after my dad had a great night bowling. I wonder if they would have use my soundbite?

The best thing I ever did for my mom regarding cars was taking her keys away before she killed someone. She was 75 and passed her “exam” with flying colors. I knew better.

That stretch through Tacoma is the absolute worst. Are they ever going to finish all those freeway projects?

there’s a section of I90 in South Dakota, roughly between the Badlands and the Missouri River, that is as flat and boring as anything in the Midwest. And, being in SoDak, it has expansion joints every 100 feet or so. In a short wheelbase car with a relatively stiff suspension like the SL500 I was driving, the…

Was this episode titled “the Rapture”?

I remember that ad. Which car would you rather have *now*?

It’s too bad that during the “light recommission” process they didn’t bother to install new floor mats that matched the rest of the interior.

Agree. I had one of these (a 2002) as a daily driver for 4 years, and even though she was a tremendous diva, I hated to see her driven away. Best car I’ve ever owned. It was like driving the world’s highest performance concrete block.

Too bad it’s out of warranty, because the rear main seal is leaking, the CD changer doesn’t change CDs, and there’s an issue with the soft top hydraulics. Ask me how I know this.

Slammed.

NBC did this once, around 1980, with a late-season NFL game (the Jets v somebody). They used stadium noise and augmented the broadcast with “state of the art” graphics packages.

I’d say the major weakness as they age is the cost of replacement parts, like, for instance, catalytic converters. Ask me how I know this.

Yes, we do (or at least I did)

True story. Battery in my sl500 went dead. Having had the “never jump start a SL, you’ll fry something” mantra drilled into my head, I called the official Benz roadside service number, expecting the guy to show up with a new battery. Nope, the Service car shows up, and the driver says no he can’t get a battery because…