Granted, these are extremely stout cars, and (despite that) getting rarer, but at that price I expected to see half that mileage on the odo. And who wants to pay almost $8,000 for a car (for a slow station wagon, anyway) whose radio doesn’t work? When these pop up on the east coast (usually the seller is from…

TV’s Mannix drove a car like this, and he never had any trouble with rigidity, torsional or otherwise.

Instead of doing all that design work, couldn’t they just put the bodies on the cars backwards?

I don’t often comment, but today’s car is certainly interesting (in a good way, not like a Mary Kay Cadillac).

It’s an unlikely suspect, but the picture put me in mind of this: https://goo.gl/images/GxchJh

For almost 12 years, our family car was a 2005 v70, albeit a run-of-the-mill 2.4 with an automatic, and in many ways it was a terrific car—solid, comfortable, safe, reliable, and pleasant to drive. But these aren’t 240s—they’re too complicated to be—and even if the drivetrain chugs on, things start going around 150k…

For that kind of money, I could get a Crown Vic Interceptor, and a lot of other drivers would think I was a cop and stay out of the way. With this car, they’d think I was driving for AAAA econo car service and ask about fares to the airport.

Any of those Jeep models with patriotic names get my goat. Underneath the flags Jeep wraps those vehicles in are ugly cheap plastic, second-rate build quality, and inferior drive trains. It’s like people’s sense of patriotism and admiration for the military are being used against them to bamboozle them into spending…

Any of those Jeep models with patriotic names get my goat. Underneath the flags Jeep wraps those vehicles in are ugly cheap plastic, second-rate build quality, and inferior drive trains. It’s like people’s sense of patriotism and admiration for the military are being used against them to bamboozle them into spending…

Any of those Jeep models with patriotic names get my goat. Underneath the flags Jeep wraps those vehicles in are ugly cheap plastic, second-rate build quality, and inferior drive trains. It’s like people’s sense of patriotism and admiration for the military are being used against them to bamboozle them into spending…

Paying that much for this car is like going in halfsies with the original owner, only he gets the shiny new trouble-free half of the car’s lifespan and you get the half during which it needs pricey repairs and its resale value plunges. As much as I like this car....

I know that marketing another company or brand’s car as your own is called badge engineering, but what’s it’s called when you make some fairly minor mechanical modifications, or none at all, slap some logos on, and sell an otherwise generic car as an elite performance edition?

I bet you could build something like this with parts you have lying around the house.

The rotary engine was a good idea. If the motor breaks down, the owner can’t be killed in a horrible rollover accident.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of those Accords overheat or catch fire like that. If she sought cred, she should have chosen an eight year old Jeep Liberty for a shot like that.

This is a case study on when to use eBay rather than Craigslist. Perhaps there’s someone somewhere in the United States who’s really into oddball VWs and would be in the market for something... unusual like this. That person may be following eBay, but won’t be sifting through Craigslist to find his dream car among the…

I hate those clownshoes.

This doesn’t surprise me. It’s like what happens with high-priced guitars. Fender Stratocasters and Gibson Les Pauls, like Corvettes, are icons for babyboomers and are status symbols for menfolk in that generation. However, many men who own these (these guys are sometimes called blues doctors or lawyers) don’t have…

Chrysler and Maserati. Combining those two is like downing barbiturates and bourbon. Even if DB Cooper’s proctologist owned this car, I’d rather have John Voight’s Le Baron.

Those who complain that this car is ugly and slow miss the point. Of course it’s ugly and slow. However, it is a prime example of an average 1970s car in characteristic mid-1970s dress (the multitone green with white vinyl roof is the car equivalent of a leisure suit), in very decent condition and pretty much much…