Eh, a Nissan Altima (admittedly, several generations ago, about 2010) is the most uncomfortable car I remember driving - something about the seats had my legs in pain to the point of limping after just a couple hours of driving, no matter how I tried adjusting them. Perfectly fine car otherwise, but I couldn’t do…

I’d go just a little morbid, do the Better Off Dead edition (with requisite ski rack), although I think they’d be obligated to charge two dollars for the package.

While there’s undoubtedly products that are both more offensive and lower quality, the trend of putting Range Rover-style nameplates on the lower edge of the hoods of basic, depressing crossovers is pretty bad. This set below is exceptionally egregious just for how poorly it was installed.

I do sort of wonder if GM on its best day could have adapted the C4 to be refined enough for use as a Cadillac (by the time they got to C5, most contemporary road tests were already pretty complementary about the ride unless you went Z51, especially once Magnaride came along). But, like you said, FWD was sort of…

I don’t think GM made the Allante FWD because they thought they knew more about dynamics than the Germans, I think they knew it wasn’t an issue for the target market for this sort of car (even Car & Driver admitted “racetrack performance is not the point of these casual sporters,” in a comparison test between the…

Guaranteed the owner goes on and on about how theirs is “raro!”, and that it’s “uno dei nove!”

Well, not as good as Highlander at least.

I feel like a car that much at risk of particularly expensive out of warranty repairs is a bad car, and one you should maybe feel bad about taking part in marketing.

I think it’s actually “I can’t believe I’m actually as dumb as Dino from The Flintstones,” but the canoe sticking out both sliding doors they were so excited to show off isn’t really the first thing you see there.

If there was ever a car that’s the living embodiment of the Jazz Styrofoam cup, it’s that Beretta.

Yup, the Achieva had the Quad-4 in SC/SCX trims (the SCX being roughly the replacement to the Calais-based 442 that was the sample image). 180-190hp was pretty healthy for that class of car in the early 90's, assuming that’s what your brother had.

I can’t help but read this in Nick Offerman/Ron Swanson’s voice now.

Oh, absolutely - there’ve been several in my family, and ours were all fine, and I know other people that had good luck with them as well, I just don’t want to deny that there are some definite weak points (as you’d expect from a mid-90's Chrysler).

Say what you will about their reliability, but the 3rd gen Chrysler vans are the best looking minivans of all time. They drove fine too - not much you can do with 4000lbs, a cheap price point, and 90's engineering that SUV’s did any better.

They were still in use in the early 90's (first-gen Saturns launched with then, and their whole thing is extremely 90's), but yeah, they were pretty much entirely gone by ‘95 or so once driver’s airbags became mandatory.

Ever seen that meme with the pixelated DeLorean 80's contrasted against the woodpanelled basement 80's that most people lived through? Likewise, teal is not the true colour of the 90's, it’s hunter green. If you lived through the mid-90's, you remember there was a stint where literally everything was painted dark…

You don’t mean caring and attentive enough?

It’s been a while since I sat in either, but I remember the contemporary Olds Aurora having a better interior (the Riviera looks fine, especially since it’s inspired by the original Riviera’s interior, but I remember it having more GM-grade plastics).  I still dig the Riviera, but I’d rather just have its Olds sibling…

This is true - RX-8 is bigger Miata 2+2, I guess, having the back seat requested in article, and having some relation to the NC

“All Sports Cars should be Convertibles” - some of us have a deathly hatred of the sun, and convertible tops up look like ass compared to a properly designed coupe. Although, damn the CoG, I will take a panoramic sunroof (and the marginal extra UV protection) when offered, were I not too much of a cheapskate to buy…