@Roberto G.: Full-option, low-price sedan... like the Daewoo Lanos, Nubira, or Leganza? A tiny fraction of those are still on the road after a mere decade; Daewoo somehow failed to learn the lessons taught by Hyundai (which had gone from a total laughingstock to a somewhat competent automaker over the 15 years before…

@Jim-Bob wants a B13 SE-R, but will settle for working air conditioning in his 353,000 mile Nissan Frontier.: I agree completely... which you probably could have guessed based on my Volvo.

Hey, my 244 has battled crosswinds at nearly three times this fellow's speed without issue. Yeah, it's square, but not that square.

@_covert: A certain LeMons team agrees.

@tonyola: The later ones, yes. The ones that weren't sold as Cadillacs (because they weren't) and didn't have the 4100 (because it was rubbish); derivative Park Avenues and Ninety-Eights, as you said, were lovely in their own right.

@imiss2xwishbones: It says "FARGO" on it. That's really it. Possibly some trim bits, too.

@alextsmith: I run my 244 into trees at ~5 MPH (idling, foot moderately on the brakes) to demonstrate its durability. It doesn't even have the earlier, indestructible 'commando' bumpers...

@SmaartAasSaabr: The X-body cars would have been brilliant if they hadn't taken every possible opportunity to disassemble or grenade themselves.

@FromaBuick6: Now with more 5.0: A complete-base-model 2003 Impala was my driver's ed car, and I still maintain that it's the worst car I've ever driven. My daily driver is older than me and has a hilariously uncomfortable driver's seat and half of the centre stack missing, and yet, I'd rather drive my ancient Volvo,…

@FromaBuick6: Now with more 5.0: I have a fold-out magazine ad for the "All-New Chevy Malibu" on my wall, with that slogan, as a reminder.

@967-1111: I'd say the Pontiac LeMans is even less inspiring - the Chevette is rear-wheel-drive, not that it helps, and marginally more reliable.

@dbol1977: True, because Japan didn't have competition for those, but do include the downsized FWD models of 1985-'86 on.

@SynthOno: Mine was a 2003 Impala. Mediocre visibility, mediocre acceleration (with the 3.4), reasonable comfort, handling like an air mattress on an ice rink, but perhaps most importantly for a driver's-ed car, the worst brakes in any car I've driven (admittedly, everything I've driven has been from the late 1980s…

@FromaBuick6: Now with more 5.0: A friend of mine had the passenger-side window of a Solstice blow in on him without warning. Between the quality issues and the visibility, it's a real shame.

@alextsmith: Quite probably - I was reckoning on a 5-7 MPH roll-into. For that matter, the rest of my rear end is nearly unstoppable below 10 MPH (old Volvo); the rest of this car can't say the same.

Go ahead - rear-end me with that thing. Trust me, it'll cost me two taillights and you a good amount of fabrication, plus the bumper cover that it's shoved back into.

@powermatic: Oh, yeah, it's fun when some moron in an Accord - as often as not, it's a beige/silver sixth-generation Accord - tries to run you off the road. Anyone who limits your reasonably-safe solutions to 'stab the brakes, fall back, turn on your high beams' and 'cut them off' is asking for trouble, especially…

@bombastinator: I suspect Nvidia will be shoved out of the low end by Intel and AMD's integrated solutions, and they haven't been very competitive in the midrange (compared to AMD [ATI]) for a while, but Intel has never made a credible high-end video chipset (at least for consumer use). I don't know whether either…

Y'know, Murilee, you aren't doing a great job of not making me want an old pickup...

@Novaload: Nah. Uh-oh, uh-oh, bitches hoppin' in my Volvo.