A lot of manufacturing goes on in those border towns. Cheap labor, lax environmental regulation, and easy transport into the US market makes for higher profit margins on the consumer crap we buy.

Craziest thing about this? This photo is facing west. That's Mexico on the left.

The price and the subsequent NP votes remind me of an acquaintance I had a little over a decade ago. He was a friend of a girlfriend at the time. (The same girlfriend had a friend living with her husband in a shed behind her father-in-law's single wide trailer. Don't judge. It was a weird time in my life.)
Anyway, this…

Neutral: How Long Before We Have A Female Car CEO? GM is maybe next, but I don't see much at Ford or Chrysler to convince me otherwise, especially with Fiat ownership. Maybe one of Ze Germans?

I thought this was the taxi of the future:

It is definitely still alive in the southeast although they're more likely in the rural counties surrounding major cities. In Charlotte there are almost none but go to Gastonia or Concord and there are minitrucks all over. Bagged mazdas, tacomas, and s-10s seem to dominate here.

And the wheels look like they're made of dicks.

Because they seem to be everywhere and the fact that a lot of novices drive them, there are plenty of 4 cylinder Isuzu diesels in junkyards. I guess because people crash NPR vans a lot...

I find the lack of Ultravan disturbing.

XR — Used to denote Mercury sport models (Cougar XR7, Lynx XR3)

We almost jumped on a red 94 VTEC with 140k and the red stripe seats for $3500 but the guy was unwilling to let my wife test drive it without a $1000 deposit. I said "Oh for fuck's sake, man. We're in our 30s and she wants a car like she had just out of high school."

The B16 was available from 94 on.
Also, crack pipe because every del sol looks like this and has a hack job swap anymore and they're all priced around $2-3k

I have nothing to say here. The colors are close enough:

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That's gross... Super Chevy tested them and found them to be closer to the 450 ish range... About 350-400 to the wheels in stock trim.

Perhaps someone can tell me why rotaries are so hot on the island of Puerto Rico...

This is easily my favorite year for the Chevelle SS. My freshman year, a friend in college (from a well funded family) had a 70 SS in the exact same color scheme, with the LS-3 402 (labeled as a 396) and automatic. It was a beast. It was nearly identical except it had the 15" Corvette Rallye wheels.

I... just can't do it....

I grew up in Johnstown so I was very familiar with KDKA. Is it still Channel 2? Or am I mistaken?

I don't hate the way it looks. It's certainly more appealing to the eye than most of the hybrids I've seen.