@EuropaBambaataa: The Omega had its Lotus variant at the time, too, so I'd say you're right about Opel (even if the Lotus only half-counts).

@patrick3: Well, I might even argue for 1989 - no airbags, see - but I understand 1991 because my air conditioning doesn't really work. It was the most Volvo year Volvo ever had, well, at least since the P1800s were killed off.

The Town Car, DTS, and even Camry/Avalon and Impala just seem too appropriate. All are aging (save perhaps the Camry), all are squishy and must by now have a median buyer age around seventy.

@alfasud: If you were only a few hundred miles from me, I'd be there tomorrow... hopefully someone comes to save her shortly.

@Baby Beater Benz: My daily-driver Volvo had 114 HP new, and I paid less than half of that $2,300 figure for it. You've got to figure that a fleet of Ecotec-powered ex-rental Cavaliers or 3800 Buicks would have a considerable horsepower-per-dollar figure.

@Track and days do mix: They were better (if usually slower, at least the N/A models) than most cars available when they were new, and they're among the best cheap transportation possible now. Think about it: even in the city, your car will never be stolen, and if someone bumps into you while trying to parallel-park…

The only Twitter I have is used to detail the (oft-concerning) events at work in humourous detail, and I ain't got no damned resume.

I knew whatever it was based on, it would have kept the stock door glass. My first guess was a third-generation F-body, but not quite. Datsun was close.

@Track and days do mix: You mean excluding the brick-shaped models that built them their reputation for indestructibility, safety, and reliability? Or do you mean "excluding shaping their cars like bricks"?

@TrampaOnline: Modern window cranks do tend to be incredibly cheap/flimsy, and reliability of power motors/regulators ought to be improved over the often-dead power windows in older cars (especially those not made in Japan). I prefer the cranks in my Volvo 244, and my power locks don't work.

@pauljones: ...bring us what amounts to a FWD/AWD miniature box...

@Track and days do mix: Eat your words, good sir, for I'm quite sure it'd be difficult to fit an entire Volvo 240 inside your rectum...!

Everybody's got something to hide, including Dodge and their monkey.

@e30 guy: I hear those Grape Apes are fast runners.

@Rondogg: Toucan? Maybe even three, if you're extraordinarily hungry? I'll be here all week; tip your waitress.

@Straight6er: Eighteen and twenty-four never caused me any problems, but the rule definitely applies if one party is under eighteen and the relationship is intimate and (particularly) short-term.

@pejer: Sadly, they're not advertising him, they're advertising the E46. Well, hell, I'd settle for that...

@DeadBuick: Part of the plan! I'm told that stock is somewhere around 6-7 PSI, and that anything over 15 is the Danger Zone... so I plan to start at stock, eventually getting a boost controller and feeding it high-test and 12-13 PSI. I've heard of the black box, but that its function is to adjust a few settings…

@theoneshot001,would love to have something in a nice 440/4 speed: That, sir, is a matter of opinion! Besides, I agree with your second statement.

@timtimtimtim: Hmm, what car? Z3, I'm guessing?