FIFTEEN MINUTES? That is truly ridiculous

It may just be psychological but I swear is someone else is pumping on the other side of me it goes slower.

I’m sure they are switching to LED anyway, so might as well make it as small as possible. A single modern high-brightness LED (even a single 10 year old HB LED for that matter) can generate more than enough lumens to signal the driver’s intent to others around them. After being stuck behind a new Escalade a while back…

There will be, we’re told.

I want to commend you on describing the occupants of the second vehicle as innocent bystanders (even though they were not standing by) and not describing the people in the crowd as innocent bystanders. I don’t wish harm on anyone, but they weren’t innocent bystanders, they were idiots there to participate and take in…

Alternately, my Jeep Grand Cherokee will put the vehicle in Park if you get out of the Driver’s door with the vehicle in Drive.  I think this was in direct response to the good Ensign’s demise.

Does anyone actually accomplish this “set it to 68 and don’t touch it again for a year” nirvana that we keep hearing about on these threads?

Screens that I can’t turn off.

I can deal with most of the modern safety features, mainly because I drive in such a way as not to trigger them.

Easy.  An instrument cluster that is backlit even when headlights are not on.  Because of that, I often see people driving down the freeway with no headlights or taillights on because they have no clue they are off.

“You know what our customers can’t get enough of? Beeping. All the fucking time, about everything. Ideally paired with cluttered-ass UIs that obfuscate the cause of the beeping. Fuck yeah, beeping.” - Every automaker on the planet, apparently. 

What modern car feature don’t you like?

putting the volume and ac controls on a stupid ass screen. 

Half full has a totally different meaning on that tank.

I agree with you on the price, but this was never an “economy car”. This was performance in the 80s, and what makes it interesting to me. Not $9k without doing something about the oil leak on the cam cover interesting, but interesting nonetheless.

That’s where I am.  This is a somewhat interesting car, but you wouldn’t give it a second look in the 80's, and you shouldn’t now.  At least not for this price.  Somewhere in the $4k range considering the good condition and low miles.  

What is it with people with 80s-era economy cars thinking they are somehow worth serious money 30 years later, just because they sidestepped the crusher?

The closest story I have is with Ricart Ford in 2016. My wife and I were looking for a family car with our less than a year old daughter. The sales guy was nice but we didn’t care for the Fusion we drove and that’s fine, we were just test driving cars anyways. We were next going to go to the Ricart Mazda literally…

It’s the finance guy every fucking time. I negotiated and got the price I was comfortable with in less than an hour and that included the test drive where they had to pull the car out from behind a few SUVs. A little over 2 hours after that point I was driving home because of the finance guy. They make you wait in…

How many times do I have to decline the wheel protection coverage?  They even tried to use my wife “driving style” against me.  “You know she is going to hit the curb.”