B9 platform Audi S5...auto only. Harrumph. The B8/8.5 had a great manual and perfectly placed pedals with well spaced gearing...the auto in that generation at least gave you launch control (only 200 times!), but the B9 doesn’t have that since it is a TipTronic (torque converter rather than dual-clutch). Then again,…

My GF had a Mercury Mystique (or Mistake, aka Ford Contour) with the V6...she changed transmissions almost as often as the oil. Seriously, in 36k miles, she had 3 of them go bad. Terrible transmission in that car.

I’d amend that to ‘any CVT anything’...

They recently changed the name to ‘Cold & Allergy D’, and you can’t order it online...

So, we need to merge this with the Swiss 0-60 in .964 second car and we’ll have something really interesting...

How about the Aerovette? It had 2 separate lives as a concept, one with a 400ci small block V8 and one with a 4-rotor Wankel. It does fail my big ‘successful concept car’ criterium of not making it to production in fairly similar form, but bits and pieces did get there. And it generated nearly 50 years of ‘when are we…

Yup...insane unobtanium on the dias, then production versions fairly faithful to the fantasy became reality. That, to me, is what makes a great concept car.

This is a good one...I admit to having a soft spot in my heart for the Sixteen, though. Just gorgeous, over the top, yet could have been made (for the 5 people who would be able to buy one).

I’ve had general allergies to dust, pollen, and probably mold spores (moisture) since I was a little kid, and the only thing that has ever worked to alleviate it was Actifed, which had pseudoephedrine and triprolidine (for anti-histamine). Then they decided everyone with sinus issues was a potential meth dealer and…

I think the reason they are profitable is they seem to be fairly low cost. It’s also why there aren’t more ‘grand’ visuals...like more shots of Venice, etc...and why Death on the Nile was so tepid compared to Ustinov’s (which had spectacular visuals of various Egyptian sites...now all but impossible to shoot in…

Yeah, that does sound pretty good...and probably even better from a spectator’s position. But better than the insane shriek of a v10 era F1 car? Not so sure about that...and, in that era, the McLarens had this demonic wail that was just a touch deeper than the other cars. Totally insane. PLUS...you could FEEL it in…

So...you mean drive like Max did his first 3 seasons?

This! I’ve seen so many articles going off about how brilliant and innovative that hideous Fisker electric box is with its clamshell tailgate, and all I can think is ‘our 73 Caprice Estate had that’. Innovative my ass.

The mid-70s ‘quality’ on GM cars was abysmal. That 76 Vista Cruiser had power doorlocks...some of them, some of the time...the doors were misaligned, the speakers sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t...and it leaked carbon monoxide into the passenger compartment. All of this from day 1. 

Purely anecdotal, I’ll admit, but my mom had three of them and all went well over 100k with no major repairs required. Stupid things like switches went south, and she had lots of brake problems (these were damned near 4000lb cars, so not TOO big a surprise), but never any motor issues. But she was super anal-retentive…

1985-87 Pontiac Grand Am 3.0 V6...all the size and weight of Buick’s legendary 3.8, with 40 fewer horses. While it had a modicum of torque, it was by no means ‘quick’, and revving it just made wheezy noises. It was a damned shame, too, because with the Y99 Rally Handling Package, the car was actually quite fun to…

You win.

This is not a ‘sports car’.

I’ve never understood why people cannot understand the difference between ‘sports car’ and ‘sporty car’. A Paseo or even a Mustang is NOT a ‘sports car’...they are ‘sporty’ cars. A sports car is 2 seats, high style, intended not for practicality but for just plain driving. A VW Karmann Ghia IS a ‘sports car’. A VW GTI…

Going to MSF, getting my license and a motorcycle was my 40th birthday present to myself...12 years later, I am now 5 bikes in (2 in current stable), have about 40k miles under my butt, and I still consider myself a novice rider. Nearly every ride I encounter a situation that is a little different than anything I’ve…