I loved the look of the PT Cruiser when I saw the first few prototypes, and such! It wasn’t until I started seeing them in person, and learned it was a Neon underneath, that my love turned to loathe.

This. I went to a dealership, all geared up to buy a used one for my then-girlfriend. Driving it made me miserable. The salesman was sitting in the back, trying to come up with praise for the way it drove. He changed to talking about the niceness of the interior.

I can’t account for the ‘coffee at the gas station’ bit, but I grew up in the PNW, and every morning in the winter my dad would go out 5 minutes before we all left, start everyone’s car, then go back inside. Admittedly, we lived in a suburb that didn’t have crime problems, but having a car that’s warmed up when it’s…

I own a former NPOCP car. Nope. Not even remotely new. :)

I just can’t see this mix of parts being, well, reliable... or durable. Or easy to mate up. But maybe I’m wrong.

What’s the goal? The weirdest mix of parts that never runs?

Your articles regularly get shared to FB by me, so I appreciate your writing them for the common folk.

Going to have to disagree. You can drop an LS in a Jaguar, and everything around it is still Jaguar. And, as durable/reliable as an LS might be, if you’re swapping it in? It’s likely you’ll still never get all of the components quite squared away. With the exception of high-dollar builds by shops, every LS swap I’ve…

Name a project car that isn’t like this.

That top truck, with a super nice driver’s seat, is my dream pick-up. Ideally with an I6 diesel.

Late to the punch on this one, since I didn’t check Jalopnik yesterday, but my first car was a T5R, and there was truly nothing like it. It was fairly benign to look at, but surprisingly quick once the turbo kicked in (and ‘sport’ mode was selected), and endlessly durable. Mine survived 50k miles in ~3 years, low…

In before everyone screams that cars are totally unrelated to politics, and this place is a liberal bastion funded by Soros.

After this I think they’ve earned a “fire on the tree” symbol.

I want a brown manual wagon set to carve canyons. You can miss me with that ‘car’ garbage. If Ford quit putting lift kits on station wagons/hatchbacks and selling them as CUV’s? I’d probably consider buying one from them.

What concerns me is that I can’t tell if your sarcastic, or serious.

I meant their cars.

This is another reminder that, just because a car is rare, doesn’t mean it’s valuable.

Well, BMW plays exhaust noises through the speakers, so Harley’ll just be joining that trend?

I thought the gimmick was going to be that it looks like a Range Rover, but will stay on the road for more than a few weeks at a time.

This is really, ridiculously obvious to me. It’s for the upcoming two-door version of the XT4 that they’ll offer as a convertible, and produce about 6,000 of them - one for every Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet owner who doesn’t know what to buy next.

Have they changed the exterior design of these vs. the w12's much? It looks more attractive, and I can’t decide if I’ve just softened on my dislike of it’s appearance, or if they’ve improved it.