My first impression from thumbnail glance on another site was “updated AMC Eagle”.

10 years. That’s how long I’m keeping the car I bought last year.

Or - hear me out, here - maybe not starting with something as already overstyled as a RAV4? I mean, the Chevy Traverse is just sitting there saying “pick me, pick me!”

The same thing happened a few years later with the boattail Riviera, it was meant for the A-special platform (Monte Carlo, Grand Prix) but management insisted it be a BIG Buick on the B/C platform, so it was a car without a market. 

The rational way to do a Hornet based van would’ve been to make the wagon body more squared-off than it was with a bumper-height rear opening instead of the liftover it had, and then simply omitting the rear seat and windows on the “van” version. Bolt the rear side doors shut, seams fully intact, for fleet customers…

They were nowhere near as likely to roll when loaded with cargo. You’re more likely to load the heavy stuff directly on the van’s floor with the lighter cargo on top of it simply from convenience, giving a lower center of gravity than a passenger van loaded with people sitting in seats with an H-point a foot or so…

For a long time these were a Ford/Dodge duopoly. Dodge built the first 15-seater in the early ‘70s, Ford joined the party (bus) in ‘75 and Dodge responded by extending their Maxivan even further back for ‘78 which allowed more legroom and the curved rearmost windows on the passenger vans; on the cargo vans it allowed…

1st. Stellantis needs to cut models, and to show they’re serious they need to cut *French* models first. I suggest going back to the ‘50s/early ‘60s idea of no midsize (by Euro standards) Citroens and only midsize Peugeots. Cut DS down to one sedan and one CUV and in the process fold it back into a Citroen sub-brand…

Taft is from the Denzel-Werke (or, according to this card, Denzel Pty. Ltd. or something) while Grover Cleveland was from American Motors (whose round-body 100" wb Rambler had two non-consecutive terms in production).

Kadett C taillights were very different from Chevette ones, if you look at the two cars closely the entire tail panel is different presumably to accommodate 5 MPH bumpers. Chevy could’ve given the Chevette red rear signals, as they did after the midcycle facelift.

US-spec Capris were even more complicated, they were German-made but the four cylinders used British inline 4s, German home-market Capris had V4s. 

Sometime around 1998, Toyota went one-trim-level with the Tercel. Up until that point, the base ‘96-7 Tercel had no right-side door mirror. Also a four-speed manual transmission - probably the last. And in Canada no airbags. 

I like the powertrain and interior condition, I’m not so hot on the rust and missing doors. Best use would be to rebuild into a rust-free four-door donor car. 

I’ve been wondering when they’ll become turn-of-the-millennium-retro hip for a couple years now.

I snagged one of the last 6MT Honda Fits, I plan to keep it at least 10 years and then go to an EV.

I know I’m late to this but it seems not unlike how Americans at the time were putting “Keep Back - I’m Flammable!” stickers on their Ford Pintos.

He doesn’t buy hair grease by the 90-gallon drum like Junior and Eric do, so that lessens the family resemblance. 

Technically, the Spark was never a sedan. It’s always been hatchback-only at least on the US market.

I always thought “318ti” should’ve been “318tl”; “three doors, eighteen years too late”

For that matter, why doesn’t Daimler sell a Freightliner Metris like they do a Freightliner Sprinter?