Ford should really just start selling semis to the real estate agents and housewives around where I live. They already drive everything else. You'll see 100lb soccer moms jumping out of empty Excursions, H2s, lifted F350 supercabs. In this case that truck can literally haul as much as some semis. If you're gonna waste…

Yeah it always pisses me off when something that spins this slow is given a hp rating. At that rpm hp is practically useless. When you can tell audibly when an engine has increased speed by 1 rpm, torque is everything.

Wait, that $13000 150hp Cortina got NP and this 165hp $8500 Squareback gets an overwhelming crackpipe? Really?

I meant LQ9. The LB9 is atrocious.

That's in the maybe column on how he'll get out of it. I know that in my state (and many states) "Reckless driving" is very subjective, but has to follow certain guidelines. His lawyer may try to get him off based on it being impossible to prove conclusively that he actually committed certain offenses during the…

Gonna take a wild guess that when he discovers something he didn't know existed and doesn't like, he doesn't consider that to be the acquisition of knowledge; he thinks the world just went haywire and needs fixing.

Yeah she definitely could have picked a less public place to do this. Then again maybe it was one of those cry for help type deals because clearly driving a van into one of the world's flattest beaches wasn't going to work as a suicide attempt.

Hormones

You certainly do. Price is still nutballs. For that price you could have a very similar-looking Datsun 510 wagon that will do a ten second quarter mile on this side of the pond.

The tangentest tangent in the history of Jalopnik.

Old school tennis racket grip if you wanted to look cool.

Yeah but then there's the problem where

This is a situation where a charitably $1500 car (on rarity alone) and what looks to be a $240 junkyard stripper model 302 get added together and the guy selling it is telling us it's worth $13,000 dollars.

Yeah if your entire shtick is graveling your voice as annoyingly as possible and making up facts about a car that A) aren't funny and B) aren't accurate, then fuck off.

That was the most annoying review I've ever heard, and I tend to be down with eccentric stuff but this is just boorish and self-important and stupid. And no the Volvo 240 did not have "coil pack ignition", "large motor" or "larger turn radius." For Christ's sake the Fiat 500's turning radius is only 4% smaller than…

Yeah I hate this "It's time to go" argument BS. If Jalopnik existed in 1993 I can't imagine how apoplectic it might be about a not-yet-retro-cool 114hp, 3,000lb 240 that was on its 20th year as effectively (facelifts and minor engine updates aside) the exact same car.

Well the shifts with dog boxes are just necessarily more violent is what I figure. With most standard synchronized trannies, the shifts are cushioned and smoothed by the cone synchronizers. With dog boxes, you really need to bang shifts to get solid gear engagements. I have to imagine that'd get old in a car you drive…

Alright that's a lot of Volvos so I have to give credit to you. Next time you really ought to throw that into your first post if you're gonna trash a Volvo, because it kind of colors the argument in a different light.

No they didn't. Where the hell did that come from?

I own a Volvo 740 and V70 right now and have been working on Volvos for 13 years.