I don’t especially care what Lexus decides to do (or not). Right now, their front clips are pretty much the ugliest goddamn things I see on the road. Frankly, it doesn’t make the car look even remotely appealing to me.

On a car that’s over 32 years old? Give me a break. That’s less than 6K miles / year average.

If you’re looking at this as a daily driver, I agree - $4K is steep. If you are looking at this as a collection vehicle, then it’s a different calculation.

There have been stories swirling about for years that Ariana Huffington was a miserable person to work for (going back to the days when HP was just another blog).

Sadly, after Honda dropped the Si moniker in the mid-90s, the subsequent Si models produced when they brought the name back weren’t much more than trim packages. (The 4th gen Si was the last which was significantly different than the DX model below it until very recently).

I’ve never been warm to the Prius. Not because it’s a bad car, or a bad idea even. It’s the name.

Sorry, but the Monte Carlo fell into the pit that was Malaise Era engineering with the 3rd generation. Most of them were sold with a wheezing V6 that could barely get the thing out of its own way (choked as it was by vacuum emission controls). The fourth gen tried to get past some of that, but it was never more than…

Humorous ... but I wonder about the probability of causing an accident by startling another driver. The thing is small enough that it would be easy to overlook at highway speeds until it bounced hard on an irregularity in the road.

Considering I see large numbers of JDM mini-trucks rolling around here for gardening businesses and other small operations, I don’t think that’s necessarily the big show stopper. (Most of those mini-trucks have sub-1L motors, and are barely capable of achieving freeway speeds) The few drivers I’ve chatted with…

If the price was lower, this might be a fun LeMons vehicle. Beyond that, the mods done to this car have destroyed any other value it might have.

There’s one about 2 blocks from my house that is still in use as a daily driver (and it appears to be in good overall shape - no visible rust, paint still good, doesn’t blow blue when accelerating, etc.) ... and it’s a pre-1986 model year - doesn’t have the centre mount brake light.

This is a large facility - the nudist club was just renting the aquatic portion of it ... as they have apparently done in the past - except the wingnuts didn’t hear about it then.

It’s a swimming pool ... believe me, the little bit of lycra most people wear in pools isn’t that much different from being buck naked.

Then please don’t make statements that broadly describe an entire class of people as “smug assholes” ... about all it does is get people’s backs up.

I have to rant a little bit:

I’ve encountered this phenomenon myself a few times. It’s mildly terrifying when you realize what’s happening (and almost always it results in an emergency stop of some kind).

The price is a touch high. Maybe at $6K I’d consider it more seriously. If you follow the ad through, there’s more pictures which show that this thing has been a working truck and it has a few random dings that it’s picked up over time.

I’m afraid I’ll never really understand the modern version of cruising. I can totally get behind being on a ship in a storm, even.

I love that reasonable is placed in scare quotes. Whoever wrote that missive obviously thinks they were being reasonable in the first place.

Mine was when I was sixteen, and attempting to purchase my first car. I had found a little Datsun 1200 (aka B110) fastback that was in reasonable shape - the body and interior were good, and the motor looked not bad (no obvious oil leaks), clutch was good, and so on.