@jpech: SECOND.

I've mentioned this before, but the Valiant is basicaly my ideal of the American car. The proportions and lines are undeniably American, but it's not a vast, schooner-sized beast like a full-sized sedan. It's simple, reliable, tasteful, and boxy. It might not be showy like a Challenger or luxurious like a Cordoba, but…

I'm not really a Mopar guy, and all the Chryslers my family has owned over the years have been ridiculous shitheaps—but they were all late-80s commuter cars of various sorts. If I were looking to buy one, though, it'd be a third-gen Valiant. Maybe I'm weird, but I love "small" American 4-doors, and you can't go wrong…

@SagarikaLumos: Great list, but I have to question the Phaeton's place on it. I'm guessing VW named it that after the carriage-age conveyance for the rich and not the Greek godling. Bang on otherwise :)

Being born in 1988 leaves me with essentially only one option: an M3. #qotd

@smalleyxb122: The E30 is the car that got me to loving cars. I drove a Buick LeSabre in high school and thought I hated driving; turns out I just hated driving it. When I bought my E30, I learnt that driving and car ownership is fun. So, in answer to the question: an E30 BMW.

I'll go Nice Price just because I have a taste for the sheer weird uniqueness of the thing. Seems like a great candidate for an LS1 swap, what with being pretty and underpowered.

@finite_elephant: Tip top. I lol'd, as the kids say.

@chelle29: Good heavens. Do want.

This is the best photoset I've yet seen on Jalop. Righteous. Thanks for sharing.

@clank-o-tron: Climbers are normal?

@dulcamara: Oh, I'm all for the TR6. My dad used to drive one. We could spend some valuable father/son time one it. Like, a lot of father/son time. Like, if he came out of it alive we'd be doing good.

@Gearhead_42: And what, pray, is scary about Dr. Frankenfurter? Besides the mad science. And the imprisonment. And the cannibalism.

Man, here I got all the way to the bottom of the comments and not once did I see "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!". That movie is spectacularly atrocious in damn near every respect. Admittedly, it strays into "so bad it's good" territory, but it is objectively awful. I mean, inbred rednecks, salt flats, MG-Bs, Porsches,…

@QuadraBog: Reminded you of bad '70s car movies, you say? Could that be because it's a remake of a '70s car movie?

@hittatree_p: COTD, straight up.

@discontinuuity: It's a lazy shorthand. I don't believe it has any actual semantic value.

@mattsaler: I would hope he is anyway. That way he can get a good job and pay off his dad for this stunt.

@Parramore: Nothing less than the kid deserves. Here's to hoping he learns something.

@Jes St.Lawrence: Would that it were, and not just an unfortunate typo.