I’m celebrating 20 years with my 1996 Thunderbird w/ the 4.6L V8 this month. When it was newer it was an excellent car for road trips. In Twitter-speak I’m here for the ratio. 

I loved building cars, but decided tractors/etc. were more fun. This one has selectable forward & reverse for both tracks, plus a winch to lift and lower a dozer blade. If I ever get around to it i'm building a scraper for it to pull.

Close... I-94 in MN, east of Moorhead. And I think the photographer is eastbound. (I'll be going past that sign in 2 days on my way to the Minneapolis auto show.)

I still have my 1996 Thunderbird that my folks helped me get in August 1998 as my college car. It was my sole vehicle till January 2005 when I bought my Dakota (which I also still have) - however the T-bird still got DD duties 9 months out of the year till I bought my Challenger in July 2010. I'd use the T-bird more…

Avenger's said to be going away, Dart is big for a C-segment car, and Charger lines up more with the Taurus. It's likely that the closest competitive Mopar to the Fusion is more like the Dart than the current 200.

Nice Chrysler bash there. The 200 was a stopgap, just making the car into what the 2006 Sebring could have been, and it'll be gone soon... if the Fusion couldn't beat that, I'd be shocked. The real question WRT Chrysler is how the new Fusion stacks up to Dart and whatever CUSW version or new midsize that Chrysler…

I ask this because I've put 23,000 miles on my 2010 R/T with the 20" wheels... if there's a handling deficiency, I haven't found it yet.

+1. Marchionne himself has called the ML/GC equation "nonsense".

At least the current Charger and Challenger are truer to their history than a certain 3-door Omni and a rebadged Mitsubishi that we could mention. For that matter, most Darts were grocery-getters.

Also: [www.allpar.com]

If that view point is out of date then I have no plans of catching up with the times. To play devil's advocate for a moment there could be all kinds of valid reasons that Jeff couldn't answer that first call-back after a half hour. Maybe he was on a call with his Autoblog superiors about the situation, for example. …

Of this list I'll accept the Spitfire, MG's and the Miata as runner ups, but otherwise the right answer was given in the question yesterday. (I'm surprised there was even any need for a discussion.)

If you pull it out of 1st and suddenly can't find 2nd or even 3rd, then you'll be counting on the traffic that had right-of-way to not ram into you.

Since I watched it last night, I'll go with everything from Gattaca. Most viewers would struggle to recognize any of the cars, and even I had to look up what kind of car the policemen used.

Do want. I had a fascination with building Unimogs toward the end of my Lego career; a few were set up as my idea of a high-speed farm tractor, with a 3-point implement hitch on the back. The last one was 4WD with one of the torqueless early-90's 4000RPM 9V drive motors for power, but I never quite came up with a…

The current Dakota platform (= set of dimensions for manufacturing & fixturing purposes) was derived from the previous one. It takes a tape measure, a truck scale, and a good eye to notice the physical differences between a current Dakota or its equivalent cab configuration from the '97-'04 generation, or even back…

Just the '97's had the good console; the '96's had the same crap as the '95. I always was going to get a '97 console for my '96 "someday" but never got around to it.

My gripes are transmission-related:

I barely comment on Jalopnik anymore, but this is what I came here to say. I've found more cool music in the 6 months I've been listening to Underground Garage than in my whole 6 years of having a Sirius radio and flipping past that channel.

Other than the opening and ending scenes the whole movie was set in Minnesota, dontchaknow.