@scotttharobot: Interior after dash swap, the leather is pretty rough in most places and the sport seats definitely need full reupholstery (not even the right color)

@dal20402: yeah, i had read that this morning and it's probably why it jumped into my head

@BigEngineSmallCar: Yeah - if the stock look doesn't bother you and the covers don't block your view of the road with them up, no reason to switch out - they're not going to be better than stock. They were already installed when I bought the car, and are sufficient to the point where it's not worth spending any money…

@BigEngineSmallCar: They're fine - I know a lot of people hate them, and they have less than stellar light output, but I'm 'young' and have decent vision, so it's never been an issue. It's probably not any worse than my first gen Intrepid was, or even my 635csi (stock ellipsoid low beams SUCK - they're just begging…

Also, here's an image of my Miata right after I bought it. Those are Team Voodoo "prancing cock" graphics, NOT Ferrari graphics. It's really quite disturbing how many people, seeing the car with a hardtop, racing stripes and those stickers, asked me if it was a Ferrari. The graphics have long since been removed,…

I think m-badging is one of the most tenacious and widespread diseases to fall under this general family of disorders.

'93 850ci - 150k miles, black on black, auto (manuals are unfortunately difficult to find) - asking price was just under 5k, and the only major issue i saw was a rust hole in the sunroof - there wasn't a spec of rust on the rest of the car.

@Scandinavian Flick: Nothing brightens your day like a small sun!

@Pessimippopotamus: I like talking to walls?

@Adam: If you can develop a fusion reactor, then it's an energy source. In fact, I wholeheartedly encourage Jaguar to start working on a fusion reactor powered car...

Hey Jaguar - I know it would be spitting on your long and distinguished history, but perhaps you could devote some resources to developing slightly more reliable cars? From what I've heard, all of the electric gizmos on the XF and XJ barely manage to keep functioning on the dealer lot (in fact, check the edmunds…

@conebone69: I don't know - as a child, did your mother ever pull an illegal u-turn across a lane of traffic to follow an icecream truck, only to be t-boned by the car in the next lane over because she didn't check her blind spot?

If there's one thing I've learned from my mother, it's that old cars are dangerous and unreliable

@OMGItsWeasel: GM's marketing makes BP look good.

@OMGItsWeasel: I think most of these mild hybrids / start-stop systems use a significantly larger starter / generator that's belt driven. I'm not 100% what type of logic they use to turn the vehicle on and off, but I guess it's pretty seamless - and the larger size of the motor and belt drive allows for it to be…

@Elhigh: ~ 8 years. So, not quite light speed.

@Elhigh: So if you turn your engine off at lights and during periods of idling, how long does your starter last?

@irishman: First gen was a great car. Reliability issues were mostly limited to the water pumps and tie rods, but the emissions system got flaky by the end and the subframe bushings eventually went. We also ended up destroying the transmission, but that was partly our fault for using Dexron in a Chrysler... (my Dad…

Well, it's not a joke, but I was very excited when I got the odo in my Intrepid to roll over 186282.4 miles... Yeah, I'm a nerd.

@xenferno: You just have to live somewhere cheap enough and be really stingy