I haven't seen one of these in the wild since the early '90s. I followed it for four miles, well past where I wanted to go, just to see its sequential signals.

Hunh! A Harlequin Golf tools around my part of town. I always figured it was somebody's cute idea: "Hey, wonder what happens if I have the body parts of my beater all painted different colors." I never would have guessed the factory would have done something so silly.

Needs more greenhouse and a less space-age dash. It's okay below the greenhouse though. I'm just not jazzed.

I was six when these started showing up on the street, and even then I knew that this car was a horrible step backwards from the 1972 model.

Thirty bleeping thousand dollars?????!?!?!?!!?

@HurtsSoGood: Losing jobs to Canada and elsewhere because their national health care makes it that much cheaper to build cars is what will put Republicans on the national health care bandwagon. Just you watch.

@cgarison: I'm with you. I think this generation GM pickup is the stuff. Clean, simple lines. Nothing that came before, and absolutely nothing after, touches it.

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ps. That gearshift lever is the same one I had in my '75 Pinto. Ford really leveraged its parts bin in those days.

Dark Angel ... might have seen them back in college in the late 80s, or was it one of the 40 other bands that played thrash/death/speed, wore denim and black t-shirts, and had long stringy hair? Whatever, nice blast from the past.

For a second there, I thought this was an ancestor of the Trabant.

At long last, the car driven by Friday and Gannon is found!!!

@Tanshanomi: Same guy who used to do the Oxy 10 commercials: Oxycute 'em!!

@NovaloadMissesPolar: What a monkey to have, though.

These things had back seats straight from the Gulag. No leg room. You couldn't even comfortably stretch across it.

Looks just like my dad's 66, down to the color.

My best friend in college had an '85 CRX HF. He and I drove it from Indiana to New Jersey and back one Spring Break. It was light and easy to control, and had enough, but not one whit more than enough, power for handling I-70 and the Pennsy Turnpike. It even handled a dang snowstorm on the Turnpike with confidence. My…

Few DOTS cars have moved me like this one has. The big Fords of this period were common as dirt and about as loved at the time, but when I see one now it takes me right back to sitting in the back seat of my dad's yellow two-door '66 Galaxie 500.

What is it with Volkswagen giving stupid names to their new vehicles lately?

Murilee, thank you for filling my annual need to see the word "slake" used in a headline.