Name this band.

As my 30 year old cutlass ciera plugs along as a daily driver, seeing newer cars with classic registration, i can’t help but feel like i have a forgotten classic on my hands. So many had one as their first car, or it was a parent’s car they learned to drive in, and it’s insanely fixable, practical, and all around…

GM FWD A-body, around 1993. Sell it cheap, good starter car or “I’m broke af but need something reliable". Would be the american version of a Lada.

0-60 Sometime next week... maybe.

Intrigue.

I there a "Worst in Show" category?

After watching a crash test of the Astro van, CP at any price. Thing is a rolling deathtrap.

1993 Buick Century station wagon, 3300 v6 and 4 spd automatic. big enough to use for hauling purposes, can seat 7, okish on fuel economy, parts are stupidity cheap, easy to wrench on, generally reliable, comfortable to drive, and not that difficult to make a little more powerful or sporty with minor modifications.…

Oil change, plugs, filters, wires, tires. If it's yet another Cutlass Ciera, tie rod ends and front brakes.

My stupid 1989 Cutlass Ciera. It’s objectively terrible. Ugly, smells like 30 years of old GM and cigarettes, gas mileage sucks compared to new cars, handles like a clown car, slow for 3.3 litres of V6. The color is an awful copper brown, rust spots, ceiling liner ripped to shit. But, it doesn’t leak, starts without…

Don’t diss unless you have, because this 30 year old car has driven well, being the more reliable car in my yard opposed to the wife’s van that’s half it’s age. Just took a 400 mile round trip to NJ, fought NJ traffic, and remained unflappable. It may not be fast, may not be pretty, but if it breaks down, I can fix it…

Save your money, buy a crappy Oldsmobile for 500, have all the room you want, ok gas mileage, and funny stories to tell.

Avoid the problem entirely and just drive a car with glass headlights? My Olds Ciera still has glass headlights, with modern halogen bulbs as opposed to sealed beams. 30 years old and no fade.

... and this is exactly how my $400 olds ended up lasting 6 years and a total of 328k

Maybe the owner is handicapped? Us gimpy folk like fast toys too.

Standard procedure for a felony stop. He probably had reasonable suspicion that the street racer would take off on him as he was already reckless (although not wreckless...). It’s also SOP if the officer believes the suspect may be a danger to others.

This. I have moderate hearing loss and always feel left out from podcasts.

They’re both equally as awful.

My current car is number 5 in a series of 1982-1996 GM A-Bodies.
this one is a 1989 Cutlass Ciera, and only a year newer than the car I had in High school, a 1988 Buick Century.

I have owned, driven, and loved many other cars over the years, and all have invariably been met with some kind of catastrophic…

The test parameters, as written, were routine for a new RBMK with a fresh fuel load, however the implementation of the test had so much deviation from the original parameters that it still leads some to posit that it was outright sabotage. Personally, I tend to blame a lax safety culture mixed with Soviet…