"Now is the perfect time to raise fuel taxes?" Yes, our roads, highways, and bridges are in terrible shape, so why don't we address the reason that they got to that point: wealthy individuals and corporations who aren't taxes as they should be. You may recall a time when our country's infrastructure was not falling to…

Oh I'm with you, just making a joke about the new Focusesesse

Is the title wrong? It gets the point across without having to type out an entire paragraph explaining that they're old but refurbished kinda but not all the way and still use old parts and stuff.

Pretty much this: some of it is old, and all of it is still, at the end of the day, a 1970s rocket design largely unchanged since then.

Damn, I haven't seen one of those in a long time. Not that I missed the ugly things. NP anyway, just for the nostalgia. Everybody should drive something like this at least once, just so they appreciate modern cars.

Traction must work differently outside of the United States because they sell small FWD trucks all over the planet and everything seems to work out ok. People use them, businesses use them. Life goes on.

Yup, that's how you end up buying bad cars.

It's criminal.

How do you own a machine like that and never use it (unless you die before getting the chance)?

I don't know about "designed by an engineer" - there are a lot of frilly details on here that look very deliberately 'designed' rather than engineered (specifically the steampunk aesthetic of the mudguards and exhausts, and to a lesser extent the headlight/instrument binnacle, which may have those fins to act as a…

You can't go wrong with a Pinto Cruising Wagon, man !

Or anything in Pennsylvania 12 months a year.

Didn't know this was happening until I stumbled upon it walking home from class. My weekend just got so much more exciting.

Yes, I completely agree. Mitsubishi managed to make a <2000 pound car while meeting safety requirements after all.

Cars so small and cheap, you could ride in them and carry their engine if you wanted to.

Bare-bones models. Even a Hyundai Accent comes with power windows/locks/mirrors and keyless entry.

8/10 would rock on Phish tour, NP

Acceleration would be glacial, but it should get up to 55mph fine.