A Bentley Continental GT convertible.

Something with great, unobstructed visibility.

Heated grips FTW

Drove my Z3 out to Great Falls this weekend. Top down and seat warmers on.

Something that lets you go where the roads aren’t so busy.

23- or 21-window VW deluxe microbus. Not only do you have a massive sunroof, but you also have eight skylights to look up at the foliage in case the weather is poor and you need to keep the sunroof closed. Plus the bus is happier moseying through the backroads, so you get more time to admire the view!

Not gonna lie, I would drive the hell out of that. Reshoot it in a darker green, build a hot 403, swap in a strengthened 200-4r and watch people go “wtf?”

When you look at a '75 Valiant next to a '76 Volare, they don't look that different, and I don't think that much changed under the skin, but today you see more of the older cars than the newer ones. What did they do that screwed it up so bad?

I’ve had three Mustang IIs. They’re fantastic cars to have fun with.

They had modern suspensions, rack and pinion steering, front wheel disc brakes and better fuel economy. They just don’t look as good as most of the older models, and were slow, even compared with other compact cars of the era. But later mustang II models had a (admittedly still underpowered) V8 option and looked a…

The Ford Granada and Mercury Monarch. These were peak malaise garbage built on a 20-year-old platform that dated back to the original Falcon. They rusted almost immediately, even in California. They drove like an old pallet on top of a shopping cart, the interiors were made of absurdly cheap plastic, and the design…

Good god, enough with the hate on the Mustang II. It was the right car at the right time and it sold like hotcakes at a time when Mustang sales were in a severe decline. Not to mention that it kept the nameplate alive for future generations of better cars. Was it the best Mustang? No. Was it the best they could do in…

When calling something the best/worst, I think it is good to compare to both history and established standards when new. So, I’ll nominate the generation of Ford Focus that was built a self-destructive DCT.

One thing cool about the Vega is the Verti-Pak rail car that was developed to ship these. If only GM had spent the money for that on the actual car it might not have sucked so bad.

The Chevrolet Vega. In John DeLorean’s first memoir (“On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors”), he recalls that the first prototype, after eight miles, “the front of the Vega broke off. The front end of the car separated from the rest of the vehicle. It must have set a record for the shortest time taken for a new…

1946-1949 Crosley

The Mustang II had some pretty big shoes to fill after the wild success of Ford’s first muscle car, but didn’t manage to match up on almost any level. Maybe it was the anticipation and excitement that killed this one, or maybe it really was just a bad car, we may never know.

This was my immediate first thought. What a promising car ruined by horrid execution. Second thought was the 1923 copper cooled Chevrolet, of which pretty much all were recalled and scrapped.

It’s not the Pinto or Mustang II. Not by a long shot. That’s just feeding urban legends.

This wins. Not only were those diesels awful in their own right, but they were so crappy that they completely ruined the diesel market in the US pretty much indefinitely.