@ravnous: It'd be nice. The LF-A proves they still have the chops. But right now, it's not going to happen. Maybe if the recall orgy never happened.
@wheatieboy: Addendeum to 4.: If you've got the scratch for a used Noble, surely you could get a custom aluminum airbox made to spruce up the engine compartment.
My folks owned a Volvo 240 just before I was born, and my mother has spoken fondly about how reliable a car it was. I'd buy my mom an AWD S40 with a six-speed (her Civic is manual and she seems happy enough with that). It's classy enough for her without being ostentatious, it's AWD to keep her in control during…
@Shep_Shepherd: Having spent an inordinate amount of time inside an Aztek (my best friend used to own one), I can testify to this. The interior is...GM-grade, certainly, but it's comfortable and functional.
@OldAudis: Nailed it, sir. Stretched Beetle on the outside, New York penthouse on the inside.
@RocketSled: Coolest shift knob in existence.
@bmoreDLJ: CotD!
I'm a sucker for anything tiny, peppy, and Japanese, so I'm voting NP, despite the price not actually being that nice in objective terms.
1988 makes for a no-brainer: E30 M3. If it's a small-budget sort of gig, I'd go with a 16-valve GTI.
@sayantan_z28: The GTI-R is so awesome. There's three or four here, I see them on the streets now and again.
@Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est: I'm sure it's popular among the cogniscenti, but like Mr. olmy, I've yet to meet another Espada fan in person, and most non-car people that I know have never even heard of it.
@Maymar: Well said, sir.
Fucking classy. The 370Z has never looked better.
When I was a kid, and ignorant in the ways of the automobile, I could still recognize the Viper as something else, and I could hardly believe it was made by the same people who built the worthless K-car station wagon my mom owned briefly until its transmission shit the bed in downtown Red Deer. I've long wanted one,…
If I tell you my favourite Lambo is the Espada and you don't get a blank look, you're in.
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. A 635 is one of my dream cars, and this is unquestionably the nicest one I've ever seen.
A rear-window defroster is a must up here in Canada, and much as I love the sound of a finely-tuned exhaust, I am a broke college kid and can't afford things with more than about 6 cylinders—and I love music—so a decent, not necessarily powerful, but crisp and range-filling audio system is a must.
It has to have kept me up at night dreaming about own it at least once.
@FromaBuick6: Second that. My family's owned two 3800-powered FWD shitboxes, and they just do not die. My Buick gave out after the clutch failed and it was decided that replacement was more trouble than it was worth, but my mom's battered Cutlass has survived being owned by both of my siblings and myself in turn. It…