The Astro/Safari were easy to do plugs, just come up from the bottom. The trick is you have to do it blind and you’re gonna burn yourself on the exhaust manifold. It always seemed like it would be easier to do from the top by removing the dog house but that was a red herring.

Yeah but you have to weld on the proper stuff and who has time for that?Diamond plate can go on with sheet metal screws or if you’re really in a hurry, tape!

The problem here is that you don’t want this thing to work. Just look at the article titles:

Mits.

Well, that settles it. Tomorrow I’m skipping work to try and get my own crappy ex-farm project car running.

Didn’t they announce early on it would be sold on six continents? Just import one from Antarctica.

Seems to me like a non-quitter has two options:

“An article about a French econobox concept with weird doors, I wonder which Jalopnik author could have wrote that?”

I want my hopeless projects to be cooler than that sooo....

My grandma used to have a silver Volvo wagon. I don’t remember what year or exact model but you know the car you pictured when I said “silver Volvo wagon?” Yeah, that one. Anyways, among its many quirks the wipers were the funniest. They’d clear the windows once or twice then jam about half way while the mechanism…

Can someone start making body kits of this that fit onto early Audi TTs? Can that be a thing? Can we make kit cars great again?

I bet it went the other way around. Guy buys tiny roadster, gets inspection certificate denied by an extremely anal inspector, goes to Suzuki all “WTF dudez?” and they take action to fix it. This wouldn’t fall under warranty so to do it officially and in good faith they make it a recall.

6. Ford Model T

Last gen Toyota Tercel; cheap as dirt to buy and own. Save the balance of your savings for a non-daily driver fun car impulse buy when the opportunity pops up.

The kids who pined for the Solstice in middle school aren’t nearing retirement yet. Give it time.

“First Person Scooter” could be a hilarious parody game. Like GTA meets CoD meets being a dork on a scooter.

It all seems so obvious after you point it out. Damn.

There’s the real reason the next presidential limo was delayed. They’re waiting for this beaut:

You’re not the only one.