I think it’s safe to say that badge is forever retired given the last year and a half.

Yup. That’s been my daily all summer. Along with my J10.

Those janky cars are like $2000 now!

I love the announcers accents from back then. Crisp, Etonian, Queen’s English. There is nothing you couldn’t say in that accent that does not sound excellent. “You’ll be shot at dawn, by a firing squad of 50 men” and you’d be thinking “Excellent, best death evah.”

I dig your 4! They’re used to be a fair number running about in my parents’ native Argentina, but I recall it best from the movie Romancing the Stone. Who knew it would make a great raft!
Your contrasting black & white version works well, particularly from the front. I hear you on the decision regarding whether to…

I will just never understand why carmakers think that people who want a manual transmission want a stripped down car.    I want every bell and whistle INCLUDING a manual transmission, which I am happy to pay more for.   

If I ever visit Australia, I want to meet that man.

Yeah, that instrument cluster is awesome :) I probably would’ve done the same if I were in your position. I’m familiar with that feeling to an extent because although I normally prefer cars that are fully original, I drive a 1991 Renault 4 GTL with the older dark grille rather than the lighter one that made its way to …

My sentiments exactly. Before importing one of the later model 504 coupes to the States (an ‘82) I had the body colored bumpers swapped out for the earlier chrome ones. My aim was to combine the five gauge ‘Monte Carlo’ instrument cluster from the last few years of the 504 with the exterior styling of the earlier…

He drove his Chevy to the levy, but regretfully, the levy was not dry.

man, i lusted over the 406 coupe when i was a kid. 

The revival concept was not as effortlessly elegant, but still eminently desirable...

There’s a future slideshow for you. All the 70s (and sometimes 60s) designed cars that got refreshed with new bumpers and taillights in the 80s. I can think of several.

Paul Verhoeven’s movie The Fourth Man kind of ruined the 504 for me. In that movie Jeroen Krabbe and Tom Hoffmann drove a brand new one to smithereens.

Wait, there was a facelift to the 504 coupé? Why would they ruin such an amazing design with that body-coloured bumper?

Bullshit. This is a myth perpetuated by people little or no experience of a Tarago (previa), or some dealer service departments.

Saw a bunch of these in Tokyo. These Estimas came in two sizes. This one is the standard model which is the narrow version and we got the ~wide body~ version as the Previa.

No cardboard derivatives.

I’m from Portugal, the world’s #1 exporter of cork. Most processing plants are actually in the town I’m originally from. One of the reasons you may see constant attempts at putting cork in places where it usually isn’t is because there’s so much byproduct from traditional applications, a lot of it is left unused.…