I heard about a meeting (and someone please tell me if this is accurate or not) in the 1940s between then-President Franklin Roosevelt and the CEOs of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. He stated (words to the effect) that he didn’t “want a Big Three, he wanted a Big Eight or Nine—and if he didn’t get it he would…

Against my better judgement, I went NP. These are exceedingly rare nowadays, all the more so in as-original condition as this one.  I doubt it will depreciate much.  I think the $10,000 asking price isn’t too much as it is too soon.

I don’t think AWD was available in the Plymouth variant of the Diamond Star trio, as it was in the Eagle and Mitsubishi models.

Guns don’t kill people.  Bullets don’t kill people.  People don’t kill people.  Ford Five Hundreds kill people.

You may want to be careful. There are probably people, albeit not likely to be intelligent enough to read Jalopnik, that will take you seriously and believe that a published car expert did not recognize a Ferrari F40.

The owner probably has his price (at least!) in the engine, drivetrain, chassis and wheels.  Which is about the only reason I can think of for buying this car...truck...monstrosity...whatever it is.  Are there any vintage Duster restorers out there who need some parts?

Spoiler alert: At 12:20, with just over 1000 votes, this is as close to 50/50 as any I’ve ever seen.

The main thing that kept me in the ND column was my fear of grey-market cars, but I didn’t expect it to be 97 percent No Dice.  It’s still early, though.

There were three in my area, all closed within the past year.

The one that makes the Miata (at least they were the coolest in the 1990s). Mazda Is Always The Answer.

Possibly not a bad price—a quarter of the price of a new one for a vehicle that probably has at least a quarter of its useful life left in it—but the likely buyer for a vehicle with this capacity probably has enough money for that new one.  So the likely buyer for this would be someone less interested in work or…

Yes.

Someone apparently thought it was a NP.  The ad has been taken down.

I never liked Hyundai or Kia because of the unfair advantage they have over the (western) European and Japanese makes—drastically lower labor costs through exploited labor. (At least in their Korean-produced products.) But this looks awfully nice...

1980 Ford Thunderbird (and Mercury Cougar XR-7). The car was a ripoff of the prior generation (at least from the back), it had all the aerodynamics of a brick, none of the bodyside lines aligned with any of the other bodyside lines, the wheel inset made it look like the body was placed on the wrong chassis, and it was…

I was going to say that this was a Barrett-Jackson price—except that Barrett-Jackson buyers, like us, generally want unmodified cars.  And those drag strip trophies would scare the hell out of me were I interested in buying a Viper.  

That assumes that all Toyota Camry buyers will willingly switch to the hybrid. Which may be the case.

Let me be Captain Obvious here: Top Gear was doomed the minute they lost Clarkson, Hammond and May. I think most of us knew that, no matter what the BBC did, the show would not go on, period.  It was a wonder that it survived as long as it did.

Any aftermarket-lifted pickup truck, especially a trashed one more than 15 years old. My fist thought when I see one is that the owner is compensating for something he (always a male owner) is lacking.  Like common sense.

It has the “S” badge. It is not a Cayman S. What else is deceptive about this car? Probably nothing (we have no way of knowing if the seller—whose ad does not list this car as an S--actually put that badge on it) but it does make a buyer wonder.  It’s a shame, because this car is nice otherwise.  A reluctant ND.