Little flip-down sun visors above the rear view mirror. While a lot of cars have huge plastic things chock full of sensors blocking that spot now, many don’t...and those little visors on various cars (especially VAG products) were just great, as the sun picks that very spot to shine through my windshield at three…

When you turn across the road into another road or a driveway, do not immediately stop or slow down a lot just because YOU are across the road and ‘safe’...there is still 10 feet of car sticking out behind you, moron! I have lost track of the number of times people have shot across the road in front of me ‘just in…

If you are at a Yield sign and there is nobody coming, GO. To yield requires two parties...if there ain’t anyone to yield to, you don’t yield. If you needed to stop, they would have put a Stop sign there, idiot.

It put the nation on wheels, end of story.

This is horseshit...there have been repeated tests done that show donut spares are far more capable than people give them credit for. This wasn’t a result of a donut spare, this was the result of someone driving like an idiot.

Guess it wasn’t ‘famous’ enough. There are a ton that should be on the list, especially if the title is ‘worst crashes’...as someone else pointed out, Earnhardt’s crash was NOT horrific at all, which is why the result WAS horrific.

Didn’t Irv Gordon have something like 3 MILLION miles on his 66 Volvo P1800S?

For those interested, here’s an awesome write-up about the Mountain Man:

Wow...there were some great replies in here! I was expecting the usual 90s/00s crap, but you guys delivered some excellent 70s and 80s goodies...thanks!

Came to post this...you beat me to it. The absolute best car toy ever, and I had lots of them. The big reason was that you could WORK ON IT...not just play with it. You could remove parts and replace them, and it was designed that way on purpose (‘cause, let’s face it, we ALL took apart some of our cars...few of which…

That Grand Prix gives a new meaning to the NASCAR slur about ‘Skittles circling a drain’...

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…