By “care” about the second one, I mean I walked by an ad for one in an airport and said, “Wow, that’s a great looking car. I can’t believe I dig a BMW this much. Good for them.” Then I mostly forgot about it until I replied to you.

The pandemic halted my shopping for my dream car 2nd-gen Firebird - see profile pic - but I had always thought I had to have either a black or saddle interior. As the years passed and I got more and more bored and pissed off at how boring car interiors have become, I decided I needed more.

On the other hand, it shares a platform with this, meaning you could bolt on virtually all the Mustang GT go-fast goodies and make the most hilarious sleeper in town. If I had more money than sense, I’d rock one at cruise night dressed in grandma drag, complete with Bible.

I have little patience for “Jeep people” myself, but still, my 1995 Cherokee Sport was legitimately one of my favorite rigs I’ve ever owned. 

Funny, I felt the same way about the C4 as I felt about the third-gen Camaro/Firebird: “Ugh, can we please just skip to the next one already. Yuck.”

The bigger, blingier, and more ridiculous full-size trucks and SUVs get, the more I find myself pining for something more like this.

I’ve only ever cared twice:

I’m with you on the insanely overpowered rides. Not only are they often way overpriced, but as many people wipe out in them, I’m wondering how long it will be before you need a classification on your driver’s license to own one. I’m not real sure I feel any better about an untrained hack driving a 1LE Camaro on the…

Like I told the other guy about the GNX he didn’t care for: you had to be there. If you had been five years old when Smokey And The Bandit came out, during a time when every new car had been slower than last year’s model every year of your life and would continue to be until you were 13 or 14, you would understand (see…

Truly, you had to be there.

Trunkload of booze and drugs not included in purchase price.

As a 70s kid, I hated green interiors. In the “you can have any color you want as long as it’s gray” 2020s, I miss them terribly.

I’ve heard that word all my life, and I have no clue how it’s spelled. Simoleons? Psymoleans? Samolians? Somalians?

In the final analysis, I’ve decided that I would take this interior scheme over the “dirty dishwater,” “even dirtier dishwater,” and “black” offerings of the last decade. Make car interiors great again, dammit.

3. My dad, who is none of those things at all, but has cited one of these as his unrequited car crush - although preferably in Boss Hogg white-on-white, with optional steer horns.

I don’t know how “beloved” necessarily, but I have seen an irrational amount of love for this ugly fucking thing on several online car forums over the last few years. I absolutely cannot fathom it whatsoever.

If the Cavalier doesn’t, it’s because you haven’t asked me.

That particular one is a 1-of-3 455 Super Duty in that color, the last true hairy-chested factory engine of the muscle car era.

Absolutely. The back pages of Hot Rod, Car Craft, etc. always had ads for 140mph speedos for F-bodies and Mustangs, especially after GM and Ford started making them OEM again.