“For sale: 1970 Dodge Dart GT, 225 cu in. Former state car, all leather, aircon works, well cared for, only orbited once”

I believe you’re thinking of one prime minister of Spain under Franco, admiral Luis Carrero Blanco. 80 kilos/180 pounds of explosive threw his Dodge Dart over a five-floor building and onto a second-floor terrace on the other side.

As a long-time owner of thirsty cars, I say target the fuel and not the cars. Those who consume the most should pay the most, and face the strongest incentives to buy fuel-efficient vehicles and drive in fuel-efficient ways.

A colleague bought an Audi Q2 and paid extra for it to be fitted with all sorts of tough-looking decorative stuff on the outside (and 19" wheels!), yet didn’t see the point in paying for quattro.

Diesel cars are practically never nice price, considering the costs involved with swapping to a proper engine before they’re actually okay to use.

Not only does it fail at SUV-ing by having no meaningful ground clearance, it also fails by not having AWD as standard, but sadly it’s not alone.

If only Smart could be dead at Smart.

Thanks, very interesting.

I used to work with something that involved two, sometimes four, identical brass parts that pretty much nobody but service engineers would see.

The Neon is among the very few cars I’ve seen score a 1/5 from Honest John. There are some truly awful cars out there that still manage to get a 2/5.

Norway: Around 20,000 people have been vaccinated since we began on December 27th, very slowly at first, but several thousand each day this week. Mostly they’ve been given to the very old (85+), and a handful of doctors and other healthcare workers.

You can definitely still get appliances with soul, just look for the ones branded SMEG.

The only way a Voyager/Caravan/T&C isn’t CP at any price is when it’s gas turbine powered.

The R isn’t the problem.

When using tires appropriate for the conditions, just increase the speed accordingly and the fun will get right back to you.

I guess you haven’t driven the Honda Fit/Jazz? I’m somewhat smaller than you, and still much too large to safely drive that car.

Norwegian here, still driving a gas car.

In Norway the Kadett would sometimes be referred to as the Rakett (rocket), as a kind of ironic rhyming reference to the glacial performance provided by the typically 50-60 hp engines.

But then you would be wiping out a dozen innocent bystanders when you leave a Cars & Coffee

At least the Celica isn’t hideous.