Always

Eh, it wasn't really a serious statement to be analyzed, just a sweeping generalization about how GM has changed since the 1980s, but maybe not as much as they get credit for. I think GM is one good earnings report and a couple bad executive decisions away from sliding back to Old GM — cutting corners and…

In the 1980s, Chrysler was eating GM's lunch when it came to the hot new segment of the day, Minivans. GM in its particularly 1980s hubris said they were developing a minivan that was going to blow its ChryslerCo rivals out of the water. That, uh, didn't happen.

Can't believe I found it: (http://auto.howstuffworks.com/pontiac32.htm)

Just hope extremely boring people stop putting twin-turbos on them and enjoy them for what they are.

It could have been a LOT worse, at the time the GTO was launched Bob Lutz said it came close to leaving the factory with hood scoop nostril stickers

Yes. Correct answer.

I could look at these 1970s brochure photographs for days

Yeah, I'm just relaying what the dealer guy said! I guess the Wrangler has drain plugs in the floor.

9.) Honda Element

When I was a kid, I was at a restaurant and my sister and I saw a man whose skin was disfigured and purple. Solid purple. As kids, my sister and I were mortified. Hopefully I'd react more maturely if I saw someone with that skin condition today.

The '64 GT40 is nearly unrecognizable. It was totally overhauled in order to be a winner.

Hahaha, absolutely

Yup. And it's a slap in the face when BMW changes the longstanding 3-Series naming convention, citing that "2-door models are called 4-Series now" and then, like, a month later, comes out with a 4-door 4-Series.

I saw one and thought it looked pretty good — it just be THE 3 series.

Wow! Is Barrichello not well-liked in Brazil?

I've always thought that after Mercedes found success 'inventing' a new segment ("four-door coupes") in 2005 with the CLS, the other Germans have been scrambling to replicate that success by being first-to-market with weird, genre-busting variations. So 5-Series Gran Turismo, A5 Sportbacks, you name it — they are…

True, seeing them pushing shitboxes to the max is half of it — but I want to see them beating up on guys in Corvettes in those shitboxes!

exactly!

On the flipside of this coin, I'd love to see an "average" or"mediocre" Formula 1 driver do a track day in something like a Miata or non-AMG C-Class and decimate all. Make a video with someone who always gets ragged on, like Max Chilton, and have them destroy regular people in an average car. Chris Harris, get on this!