Exactly like that, only worse because of the unsightly cars.

Because the only reason to drive a beater is financial duress, and financial duress is prima facie evidence of fraud.

I’ve heard KC; also heard Stockton. Stockton is a shithole; Kansas City is a shithole with terrible weather. The car would be trashed.

Central City’s analogue is Stockton, which makes Manhattan look like Mayberry. It’s an utter shithole; that makes the condition of the car EVEN STUPIDER.

There’s gotta be some sleazy grift we can dream up between us, no?

The fictional city in question, Metropolis, has always been understood to be a NY analogue.

Pictured: the New York of my childhood, 1974. No way that car survived that place in that time unscathed unless it was loved and garaged.

YOU COWARDLY SONOFABITCH!

Man, I really need a lot of money...

Yes!

So even as Jalopnik inveighs against buying murderous devices like pickup trucks and BMWs and publish articles about harassment of women and minorities in motorsport, they’ve got you shilling for a Saudi racetrack built in part by slave labor owned by the government that vivisected a journalist for, among other…

I’ve represented LOADS of people on suspended license charges.

OH MY GOD, PEOPLE! GIRD YOUR LOINS FOR THE ATTACK OF THE TESLA-STANS!

Because Nürburgring.

Looks like an Alpha Wolf, sounds like a beta dog.

So safe spaces are so terrible that you need a safe space free of safe spaces?

“Ya just can’t cruise at 80 without 400 horsepower,” I said, despite doing that all the damn time in my wife’s 150 hp Subaru Impreza...

I wrecked a couple GM B-body sedans in the 80s without any injury to me* at all - they were very safe cars for occupants. This one, with ABS and airbags, is even safer.

Torch nails it, and hard. Replace the Roadmaster’s camshaft, cylinder heads, and dreadful OptiSpark ignition, throw on a TVS 2300 blower, and be the coolest orca in a sea of tedious tuna.

NYLON chain guides.