Nope. I’f I’m going to go through all the Alfa ownership trials and tribulations, it’s not going to be with a front-driver that looks like a late-90s Camry. I’d go for a Milano, but not this.

Me likey! It’s like “Z’s Greatest Hits,” and I mean that in a good way.

He wrote this about turn signals, indicating that he was changing lanes...

I had a strong reaction when I read that: a physical gut-wrenching “NO.” But then it occurred to me that our vintage travel trailer is essentially “brake by wire,” and those brakes are now controlled by an accelerometer and an app via Bluetooth, and it works fine.

Huh, I actually didn’t realize the 924 hung around that long. I thought they dropped it when they brought out the 944. I learned something today...

Ford drops the V8 offering in an iconic nameplate and offers only 4 and 6 cylinder engines; the public complains; they half-assed shoehorn a V8 in there anyway a year later. Sound familiar?

I have to admit, I love the stripes.

Neutral: Hello (cough) from smoky (cough, hack) Portland! Our air quality index is still in the 400s, but at least the fire danger has backed off a bit...

They replaced, but didn’t bother to paint, the bumper fillers? What else did they half-ass? No dice for shitty presentation. If you’re asking five figures for a somewhat dubious “classic,” make sure it looks like it might be worth it at first glance. This isn’t even a 20-footer as it sits.

I get the sense that a lot of this is due to the fact that we’ve reached plateaus in the technology. All the great leaps forward have been made, all the stupid ideas that would never work (but were fun to see) have been tried and failed, and now we’re down to a few millimeters here or there making a few thousandths of…

This is restomod done right! Two things I’m not crazy about: first, the headlights look wrong; I know you can get LED lights that look almost exactly like sealed-beams, and second, they kept the one aspect of the Scout interior that I never liked, that ridiculous-looking steering wheel.

It may be “always a few years away,” but seeing stuff like this gives me hope that maybe we can fix things, and find new and better ways. Hell, we need some sort of whiz-bang future to look forward to, don’t we?

Oh now you’re just trolling.

We’ve sold half a dozen cars in a local fast-food parking lot over the years. It’s big, well-lit, high-traffic, and on a main drag, so it feels pretty safe. But they’ve all been $4000 or less transactions, usually quite a bit less. (In true Jalop fashion, I tend to have a high turnover of cheap cars.) I think going to…

It looks like the rear windows are still intact, just rolled down, and the snaps along the top of the rear doors indicate that there’s some provision for side curtains to close up the rear “seat” area. I doubt there are still seats back there, unless the rear panel curves inward to provide footwell room.

Neutral: I had just gotten to work when my co-worker Andy told me “A plane crashed into the World Trade Center.” In my head, I was imagining a Cessna, not a 757. Some other folks were clustered around a TV in the conference room, so I stuck my head in to see what was going on.

I miss the chrome logo. It should come back.

Rory’s on the right track, but budgets are budgets. I’m thinking Avalon. The car, much like the Roxy Music song of the same name, is soothing and calming and too-often forgotten about, until someone reminds you, and then you think, “oh yeah, that is nice, isn’t it?”

Actually, I don’t mind it at all, as long as the “Latest” button doesn’t go away. I just couldn’t resist posting the Garth gif.

We fear change.