@PotbellyJoe - Needs more laudanum, can you point me to the nearest apothecary?: Clearly the only reason anyone buys the Highlander is the name. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!

Old Cutlass Cruiser / Buick Century Wagon / Pontiac 6000 Wagon (all A-body wagons except the Celebrity, for some reason). My dad came to the conclusion that these were as economical and reliable as you could get, so just kept buying them throughout my childhood. He still has two, both Cutlass Cruisers - a winter…

@ReverendDexter: My guess is it has something to do with the power limitations and efficiency issues that exist with current CVT designs.

These things were reliable enough to where I'd much rather spend 8k on an example with over 100k miles, and actually drive the car. Even if this thing were worth 35k, you couldn't drive it or else it just becomes any other e36 m3 coupe.

@Commisar: Most bimmers from the '80s were made before 2000... Seriously though - one is a greymarket e30 323i, '85, the other is a 5 speed '88 e24 (which is actually quite rare, almost all were autos at that point). I think the only other bimmer I'd really like is an e31, but the e39 m5 and s54 m coupe / roadster…

I own two manual '80s BMWs, two '80s Honda motorcycles, a 1.6L Miata and my DD is a Saturn. If you want something that runs forever, almost never breaks, takes very little time to repair or maintain, has cheap parts, gets good fuel economy and is well featured and provides good utility (I drive an L-series wagon), I…

@Mark D: I drove a visually refreshed, 2.2L version into work today - same color and everything.

@superflanker00su: Lost me at 8 speed... If I'm not mistaken, the Mustang's 5.0 isn't DI, so that definitely gives them room to catchup if necessary. I can't imagine the v8 Genesis coupe will weigh less than the v8 'stang, especially with that transmission, and the v8 Mustang already has the same fuel economy rating…

@duurtlang: Again - if you want to talk about US automaker's poor fuel economy, it's better to compare their cars to other cars available in the US that are rated by the EPA. Your 5 series does 49.9 highway? Ours base gas 5 seires does 32 highway. Different testing standards aren't really comparable, and if you're…

Honda EZ-Snow concept. The EZ-90 was a very weird dirt bike, and then they made a ski / track kit to turn it into a snowmobile, but it never actually saw production.

@SheerHippo: true - a pristine c6 zr1 will probably eventually bring more than the gnx, but you'd have to wait a good 25 years for it or something like that. the gnx is already on that upswing.

@Dab O' Swine: ZR-1 will depreciate like nuts for a while, even if you drive the GNX a bit and replace all of the rubber on the car, upon resale you'll probably come out ahead.

He should really consider a Lincoln then

As of yesterday, the Fiesta ST. Also, the new Focus

@anitesh.jaswal: The purists have wayyy more to whine about than the 1M getting too close to the M3s performance specs... Hell, I think the purists have just totally stopped paying attention to what BMW does these days...

@Ash78, hophead extraordinaire: yeah... you see - if i would actually save in maintenance (or, actually repair cost since hondas have as high or higher maintenance requirements than almost any other brand except maybe hyundai, but certainly have higher parts cost than hyundai), maybe I'd consider it, but from my…

Ah well, it's still way better than the crosstour. i guess i'd consider a used one of these as a dd to replace my lw200 in 5 years except honda's ridiculous resale values will probably keep it beyond what i'm willing to pay

@audifan7: it's all about tires. i still clearly remember about 5 years ago, watching an audi spinning all 4 of it's wheels at a stop light while i pulled away in my intrepid with blizzaks.

@audifan7: Rochester. Lake effect FTW! Oh, and he claims at one point to have had aircraft landing lights installed on the car.

@ASHare-a-thon: According to my father, an XK120 with racing snow tires works quite well in the winter in upstate ny.