Manly, and blows damn well? Turbos actually sound fairly gay to me.

It's forty-six-six, that's not the price that it's always been/

Looks to be crab-walking a bit at the end, but hell, who cares with balls like that?

@DNiedAcess: It's normally a top-line Malaisemobile. You're ordinarily guaranteed a vinyl top, pillowy-soft tufted velour upholstery, and sometimes two-tone paint as well as various power options (power windows/locks/mirrors, sometimes power seats if they're buckets, an ashtray and lighter for each passenger...).

@Stoatmaster is Hedy Lamarr: Conventionally, "brohm" (rhyming with roam) or "broohm" (to rhyme with loom). Either way, a hint of H and no G helps. One can draw it into two syllables without raising suspicion, but it's never a broogum or a bruffem. Now, it's sometimes pronounced "Bro-ham", but we ignore those people,…

@stanhalen001: Definitely. As a classic, today, it's meant as a boulevard cruiser - to look good, with an exhaust note to match, and to have reasonable power for today's motoring and more than enough for its era. I can't really knock it. Hell, I daily-drive an old Volvo; I know what "slow" means.

@Tiptoetherat: Aye, I reckon I put a greater value on quality of conversation than most other attributes that one can discern from a television programme. My thoughts on the subject are essentially yours.

Blue plates, black paint, Dunlop GT Qualifiers. Delicious, absolutely delicious. I don't care how fast it isn't.

A roomy compact sedan of imminent death.

@Roberto G.: Nader sat shotgun in the pit.

I feel that the 16V heads that these guys steal from our RWD Volvo stock are justification for the ways that I've violated a beat-up stripped XR4Ti shell in the past.

@accipiter: You meet the creepiest people in a Toyota.

Can we just call it the "Kluger" already? "Highlander" sounds cool. "Kluger" sounds like that annoying kid who shits his pants. This is definitely a "Kluger".

@TRAMS_AM: The cat who could drift a car. The past tense is key.

I'm torn as to whether this is more interesting than finding that someone's driven out into your hayfield to make whoopee - that's the closest my family ever had.

@Porscheisthebest: Nowadays, they'd be paying out millions to your family. As much as damage payouts can sometimes lead to serious head-scratching, it's undeniably fortunate that corporations can't get away with that sort of sloppiness today.

@Jesda: Meanwhile, I can put my Volvo 244 anywhere I want within a few inches, because I know the car and can see what's around it.

Nice Price, if the interior contains a seat, a steering wheel, three pedals, some rudimentary gauges, no gypsies, and no suspicious stains. Hell, I don't remember ever seeing one of these on the road over my nineteen years.

@UD63: I'm counting overdrive, here! I have to have something to work with!

@Mpoxsx: Most new cars aren't so much overbuilt in that way - an older car will usually hold together better (especially something with a separate frame) in a low-speed fender-bender - a few hundred dollars in damage instead of a few grand - but won't usually be nearly as safe in a high-speed collision. If you back,…