This may be a strange sight for most Americans, but for older Europeans, who grew up seeing Citroën DSes, GSes, SMs,CXes, BXes, Xantias and XMs, height adjusting / self-levelling “hydro-pneumatic” suspension was normal. (Suspension based on hydraulics and spheres with compressed nitrogen.)

I think the Taurus was shit by today’s standards, but it was a pretty big success when it was first released. Detroit desperately needed an answer to the Japanese Camry/Accord (also FF) and the Taurus provided it. It was actually the best-selling car in the U.S. at one point.

In the waning years they made a NA version that was less expensive and probably more reliable. I always thought these were a good size.

The Equinox EV starts at a lower price than the cheapest Tesla and even the ID.4 starts at about the same price as the lowest-priced Tesla , going by MSRPs anyway (there don’t seem to be base models of the Equinox near me, but the ones on the lot are also being discounted, apparently).

I had to wait for a replacement manifold from Japan.

Frankenstein was the drop out who wanted to be a doctor. The other main party to that story was the supposed monster, who “ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.” but appears to otherwise have no name.

I have to take issue with “however, they were pretty bland cars-” They were not. Remember, at the time, they were like stepping into the future, if you were used to what american cars were at the time. My dad got one (a metallic sandalwood wagon) as a company car and it was just... WOW.

I have a first-gen CVT pathfinder. It’s at 158k now, but I don’t think the transmission is going to hold out. It was a REALLY shit transmission, and you can’t really get new ones anymore, since they stopped making them almost immediately and all the OEM ones broke already. It’s a shame, because apart from that - and a…

@Jalopnik can you do a similar list of lowest average costs to get a vehicle to 250k miles? If you include/exclude fuel it could really alter results. But in terms of average repair costs over the life of a vehicle it would be interesting.

Big SUV’s and pickups that are driven 20k miles per year in the sunbelt doodling along to the mall from a suburban house - seems like an easy life for a low tech pushrod engine and body on frame construction.

Older (and newer) ones are everywhere but it takes a ton of driving to put 250k on a vehicle. I would think very few cars would make that list, very understandable that it’s mostly trucks.

Aside from taxi usage, I wonder how many Prii are out there racking up crazy miles.

Now rank them in order of which will be cheapest to own over those 250k miles. My 2016 Prius is at 225k

At least some of this is a list of cars that people who drive a lot buy.

My 62 Corvair had a black hood. Glad to see that style coming back. 

Maybe.

Mustang Panamera? Mustang Dakar? I don’t care what they call them; I’m in.

Oops, All Mustangs!

Caterham and Morgan owners are furiously sealing their responses with wax and calling for a rider to take it to the nearest town post-haste.

Piped in/synthesized engine noise.  The first car I had that as a feature was a VW GLI.  In sport mode, it was so overdone and obnoxious.  Even in Eco and Normal modes, it just didn’t sound like a real 4-cylinder engine.  They tried too hard to make it sound like a booming V8 and it just didn’t work.  I understand…