Since people started suggesting American made sedans I’ll go with the 4-door version of the Hudson Hornet which dominated NASCAR in the early 50's.  All the Hornets came with the high output straight 6 and were not that different from the race cars.

The E39 is the obvious answer so I’ll go with something a bit newer but also German- the 2008 Audi RS4 sedan. 420hp at 7800 rpm from an NA 4.2L V8 mated to a 6 speed manual trans. 8 piston Lambo brakes in the front. As long as you have money for the absurd maintenance its great.

Yea but the trans is broken at 200k.

I could do with out the 700hp engine but looking at those buttons and knobs and nicely integrated screen is making me want to check out a Durango.  The base V6 is pushing out 300hp which is plenty.

On one hand I think if he left the window down when they asked him initially the whole thing would’ve gone different. On the other hand they went full on crazy as shit when he didn’t listen. As a cop though when someone has tints and they start rolling the window up you have no idea what they are going to pull.

The Bolt and Leaf are both pretty affordable and the Tesla 3 starts around $40k which is expensive but still below the average cost of a new vehicle and pretty reasonable once the tax rebate is taken off.  The Tesla 3 is still probably one of the best performing cars for the price.

At least it can’t fail any worse...

The fact that this is an automatic is more impressive.  Automatic Honda’s usually fail way earlier.

No Smokey and the Bandit?  I feel like there’s some solid work in there.

You see the Jersey plates?  That explains it right there.

“and then I was done with maintenance.”  Kind of implies that you don’t do any maintenance.

Is it like a foul ball where if I catch it I can keep it?  BRB going to NM.

Power/weight ratio is much more of a factor. Cars are getting heavier, especially since the advent of EV’s. The fact is you need more power to move a 5,000 lbs sedan that 15 years ago was a 3,500 lbs sedan.  I’d say a 0-60 of sub 8.5 seconds is all I need which is what every vehicle I’ve owned has been able to do. …

Yea they had a bunch of recalls.  I had a friend with one that had the engine shut down issue.  Lifelong Jeep owner and she had to call out of work multiple days because her new car wouldn’t start.  I believe that was the transmission software recall, which is different from the fire risk recall.  Needless to say…

You know what else the Elantra N has that the GLI doesn’t a GD parking brake lever.  Every manual car I have ever owned has had a lever for the parking brake and having a little button next to the shifter is just silly.  Between that and the touch capacitive BS I’m not even looking at one of these.  If you told me in…

Does your car have suspension and brake components?  How about tires?  No one is done with maintenance by buying an EV unless you lease and are just hopping into a new car every 3 years.

I feel like the battery management systems do a lot of this for you.  This trickles down from ICE engine management systems that are designed to protect the mechanical aspect of the car.  The term used is “Failure Effects Management” essentially if enough things fail the car will detune itself or pull power to protect…

There are so many better BMW’s to be had for that amount of money.  ND.

Both the Roadmaster and the Crown Vic/modern Panther platform would be awesome. Honestly, BOF sedans/wagons should be a thing again.  You can probably get around some loophole and have them listed as trucks. 

You dahn’t wahnna go dahwn that road.