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Parking ticket this weekend - went to an event down near a waterfront park. One of the park’s lots is closed for repaving or something, the other lot is already full. What appears to be available is apparently only for boat trailers for the nearby boat ramp. Despite the clear need for car parking, and only being a…

The very first issue of Motor Trend has an article on gymkhana, which from their version sounds very much like nascent autocross.

The only thing I remember about driving one of these when new at a car show event was just a whole bunch of understeer, in spite of not particularly trying to be That Guy. Although, chalk that up to greasy February roads, and probably eco tires that had no business being outdoors in winter. Good news is that’s easily…

Well then, velvet ropes would open, etc, etc.

I have no qualms with the Gone in 60 Seconds remake, but I hate the Mustang that launched a thousand awful clones. If you own one of these, you are not a connoisseur, you’re a self-indulgent wiener.

So, if you technically paid for it, and one survived, would you be justified in making a modern belly tank racer?

I mean, someone’s probably going to drive it like that for another 200k miles.

Maybe so, but sounds like a fun dad car.

What? I mean, legitimately, what? The *hybrid* Maverick is quicker than an S-10, the Ecoboost Maverick looks to be a touch quicker than a Focus ST.

I have connected services in my car, and mostly all it does it remind me we’ve left the car unlocked at times we fully intended to left the car unlocked. I figure the GPS tracking bit is a nice bonus security feature for the two years it’s free, while there’s a car theft bump, but I just don’t like dealing with yet…

An overweight gullwing’d sports car with a family sedan engine and middling performance, built in an economically depressed area so the creator who slapped his name on the thing could extort government money? No, no, the other, uglier one.

The ‘84 had the 4+3 transmission, which had overdrive on the top three gears, but I believe effectively worked as a normal 4-speed (you could turn the overdrive off, and when it was on it worked based on throttle load). They skipped over the 5-speed straight to a 6-speed in ‘89, which was the one with the skip-shift,…

Ehh, BTTF is a big part of the appeal, but so is the Giugaro styling. But yes, fantastic icon of a decade, terrible sports car.

Even in the more walkable/transit friendly neighbourhoods, the incumbents (re. older) are incredibly territorial, and prefer to block new housing, or really anything that’d benefit anybody else.

Well, yeah, that’s what the Mazda5 picture was to imply, just with the slightly more power, extra gear, and other minor updates that a third generation would’ve hopefully brought.

My CX-5 is okay, but sliding doors would be nice.

That's probably a good a guess as any - there was a horizontal line on the front corner that threw me off, but might be that light cluster, and the rear is a little more rounded than I remembered. And, like you say, quite prominent in their history.

It’s certainly less common for franchise dealers, but I used to do the pictures for used cars, and there were plenty of dealers who’d throw their trade-ins online to see if there’s any demand. Absolute sketchiest was a 3rd gen Integra sedan that looked half-decent from the driver’s side, but had clearly been gently…

Worst used car you’ve ever seen? I mean, I guess taking the $6k asking into account, but cars like this are the lifeblood of every single small or impoverished town north of the Mason-Dixon line. It might be ugly, it might be unsafe, but it runs, and the roof’s still there.