I would cheerfully pay for a taxi ride with Sabine as the driver. She's awesome.

You know, I always thought they were nice, sure, and iconic, but never really *got* it with these cars. This video changed that. I'm glad to hear that Jay was the same way. Seeing it in action and hearing it, wow, I get it now.

Um, no. Grid is down, so your toilet no longer flushes. No toilet flushes.

The worst car I owned in my entire life had that motor in it. Like a bad penny, it came back to haunt me after I sold it. Never again.

You completely missed my point on the taillights. I'll spell it out - the taillights have nothing to do with the aluminum body panels. Nothing. Separate issue. They are also in no way specific to Ford insofar as ludicrous expense is concerned.

So Ford started selling the Focus with the 2000 model year starting in 1999. This was around the time that Carlite glass became a big issue in the intersect between Ford and the insurance industry. Out comes the Focus (complete with its' carlite glass that ford claimed was the only glass you could safely use in its'…

And of course the closest one is is not close at all. *headdesk*

I'm an insurance guy, hi. I write estimates for a living, and deal with accident claims as my day to day. The Edmunds article was BS. The snippets they put of the estimate showed a shop that was inflating the figures. It was silly.

Wow. I figured they'd be faster than that. Don't they have a canvas top too? Mountain lion'll get right through canvas in a beat.

Brown bear top speed - 30mph

Bristow is a little ways off, but I have a buddy that lives kinda near there. He's going to the concert too, and he's letting me crash at his place afterward.

No thanks. The proper back-up of choice IMO is a proper mountain-bike. Loading and unloading a multi-hundred-pound motorcycle is asking for injury, and there are no docs, as well as eating quite a bit of space and weight allowance on whatever vehicle you're on. A trailer would obviate much of the potential for injury…

Oh, without question. The point I was making is that people call it a chest exercise when the prime movers are the triceps and anterior deltoids.

"Treat light weights like they're heavy, and heavy weights like they're light."

Dave Tate has called the bench press a tricep-dominated exercise many times and has denigrated its' efficacy as a pectoral builder. Both Dave and Spud had comparatively small pecs when they cut down for bodybuilding contests, and there's zero question as to how much time both those guys spent on the bench.

Hear hear! I've done REALLY well on 5/3/1.

Fantastic list. Aside from the Trab and the 2CV, I could see taking anything on this list (and I only exclude those because of parts availability here in the States). And seeing as how I drive a vehicle on that list already, I'm doubly happy with it.

Because you might be somewhere that doesn't happen to have six dozen working cars in easy reach, like a remote property, traveling cross-country looking for other survivors, etc.

You're the last person on earth. Exactly who else's schedule do you need to conform to that you need to get somewhere in a "reasonable amount of time"?

This is not my car, but it is extraordinarily close. Imagine this, but silver. It was a 1981 Pontiac Phoenix and I have literally nothing good to say about it. I would like to say that it was free and that was it's only redeeming feature, but the fact that it was free in no way redeemed this car.