This is a nice car, in good condition, for a reasonable price. I am hesitant to go NP (though I did) because it’s a German car with over 100,000 miles, but the decision has apparently already been made—the ad was pulled, indicating that someone else gave it the ultimate NP and bought it.

I’m surprised the Cadillac Catera spot with Cindy Crawford in a dominatrix outfit didn’t make the cut.

Volkswagen Beetle. It started off as a simple vehicle that would still run even with half the parts missing. In its last incarnations it’s a Golf with strange (“nostalgic”) styling and none of the Golf’s practicality. Which is why it isn’t really missed.

Who runs the National Fruit and Forklift Council?  Who did you contact for permission to use the photograph?

It’s the same with the big “taillight” rectangle in the 1975-78 Ford LTD.

To be fair, the 1975-1977 Mercury Monarch had the same non-functional amber fake turn signals. And these were the years that its corporate twin, the Ford Granada, had working amber rear turn signals.

Also, like most shows with manufacturer-provided vehicles, they used multiple cars. Here is one with bumper guards...

I remember a story about a man trying to sell a thoroughly trashed, non-running bus he had been using to raise poultry for about a decade in the back forty of his farm. He was asking six figures for it. He claimed, with little (and inconclusive) documentation to back it up, that this was the actual bus on which Rosa…

I’m not sure I buy the Charlie’s Angels provenance either, but seriously, I doubt that ABC blew that car up. They’re going to destroy a brand new car? More than likely, they found a similar-sized car (perhaps an older Mustang II notchback?) in a wrecking yard, perhaps damaged on the other side, painted it beige and…

Without all the customizing, this may actually have almost been worth the asking price—$6,000 for a truck with one of the most acclaimed reliability and durability records known to mankind isn’t bad. With everything done to it to deprive it of that record, it just lost its reason for existence.  ND.

I worry more about when big business thinks this technology is ready to be applied to semi trucks—when they decide that the money saved by not having a driver (which is probably the whole idea—and it’s only a matter of time before they can legislate to eliminate the “intervening” passenger) and thus not paying a…

They should have a miniature Linda Vaughn hanging off of it.

This car should do about as well as the $18.000 minivan last week.

I remember a Car and Driver test of the first Excel in 1986, where one of the writers discovered that turning off the engine erased the radio presets.  Do you suppose whomever designed that dashboard malfunction came out of retirement to design this one?

I looked it up on rockauto.com, and found quite a few listings for a 1971 Mazda 1800.  I didn’t look up whether they were all in stock, so they may still be as rare as Duesenberg parts on Rockauto (which doesn’t carry the taillight gaskets and spark plugs they list for an SJ), but maybe parts hunting isn’t as daunting…

I went NP.  Just because I’m a Mazda fan.  Were it a Subaru, ND.

It will definitely have rarity in its favor if Chrysler minivans become collectible, but for now, almost 20 grand is a lot to pay for one. ND.

1976 Plymouth Volare Road Runner and Dodge Aspen R/T. Aside from being shadows of their namesakes’ former selves, the Volare and Aspen themselves were problematic—pretty much everything that could possibly go wrong with a car did with these. A lot of people pin the blame for Chrysler’s late-1970s financial troubles…

My parents, about twelve years ago, bought a six-year-old Taurus sedan, with about 67,000 miles, for $7,000 from a dealer. Considering that was twelve years ago, with inflation, $8,900 by comparison sounds reasonable for this car. And, were I in the market for a used, higher-mileage Volvo (or any European car), one…

I think the worst I ever saw was the person who, while travelling in the right lane of a four-lane divided road, decided she (I think it was a female) needed to make a U-turn. She literally stopped in the right lane—blocking the road for at least three other cars—while waiting for traffic to clear in the left lane so…