Good luck buying a $500 car that will pass inspection in my state. Add in registration fees, sales tax, inspection cost, and insurance costs, you're in for ~$1000; that's if you actually manage to find a $500 that will pass inspection. That's not easy to come up with for a ton of people.

Some states also require you to get it inspected. That's only $25 here in NY, but that's if it actually manages to pass.

Turns out I've got just a small group of friends, and a lot of people that just got demoted to "acquaintance."

Really? The only way you'd teach a friend is to have him buy a manual car? Come on. Clutches aren't that expensive and I certainly hope your friend that wants to learn isn't going to do that much damage. If he is doing that much damage, either you are a horrible teacher or he shouldn't be driving at all.

Or, you know, just use a artificial variant.

Wait, you commended the quality: "...Fieldsheer absolutely matches it in the quality of its materials, looks and performance."

Yeah, they totally do :|

See, I want to race against my friends. Not with them.

Please, show me how it compares to other trucks from 2005.

Have fun vacuuming out lime dust when you need to make some concrete for the back patio. Also have fun loading a dozen or so bags of mulch in the back of a minivan compared to this. I hope you like spiders in your minivan when you get your firewood for the winter. Also, good luck getting anything tall (new tree to…

I'm just waiting for T-Mobile to get a WP that I actually want. On Verizon in the mean time.

As much as I dislike the Honda, it's a great truck. Drive like a car, has storage cubbies galore. It's great for someone that can only afford one car, only needs a bed to get a bunch of bags of mulch for the garden or to load up with camping gear, yet wants something nice to commute in. It can also fit five normal…

Mine is a Windows Phone and it says the exact thing via my Xterra. I don't know who is doing it.

You can buy C3's for even less. The C4 was the first time the Corvette was ever really taken seriously as a sports car. It was the first time it even had a chance running with Porsches and other makes that carried sticker prices three, four, even five times as much. It even boosted Dodge to make the Viper.

The Ranchero was a Ford.

EX-122 was owned by Jack Ingle of Canandaigua, NY until his death in ~2001. It was sold by his remaining family in about 2002.

I commented on this a while a go, and it was ignored...

The biggest complaint? Built-in voice recognition systems.

Weird... my neighbor growing up actually owned a prototype C1... the first one to ever get a V8 shoved under the hood, the EX-122. It wasn't even a production vehicle, just a concept. The interior wasn't that great, but it was far from bad. Certainly better than any C3 I've ever been in. I've only been in one C2,…

Worst generation Corvette, aftermarket side pipes, "meh" interior quality (the early years also had questionable manufacturing quality) and from what I can see in the pictures is a not-so-great paint job, I'm going CP. Sure, it's got both tops. Yeah, it's a early year C3 (which is apparently desirable to some…