They barely even showed it.  It was such an incredibly cool car.  And the guy outfitted it with nitrous!

I’m going to be contrarian and say the Volvo C70 in “The Saint.” But frankly, beyond its looks, the C70 isn’t a very good car.  I remember Volvo doing some cross-marketing around its inclusion in the film.  I rented (on VHS!) the movie as soon as it was available, and was disappointed to see that the car barely even…

It’s a nice rig, but you know what they say about other peoples’ projects.  ND. 

Oh, please.  The civilized among us drill holes in the floorboard and run a catheter up to the driver’s seat.

Or the contrarian that claims to spend every weekend driving from Memphis to a beach in Florida with stops only for gas.

Oh man, the Spirit R/T.  I’ve always loved those things. 

Might have entertained the notion if it had been painted in a single one of the 3 colors.  As is?  Hard ND. 

F--k it.  Nice Price because it’s a beautiful oddity. 

Practical range

I tuned into this during some interminable commercial breaks during the football game. If I needed a solitary reminder that I am indeed old, this spectacle did it for me. I quite simply don’t get it. Between the hamster-headed dance team, the odd assortment of adjacent celebrities, and Doja Cat’s ... outfit (??), I’m…

The oil change one kills me. Some people can get so incredibly neurotic about it. A guy in one of my car clubs back in the day would literally change his oil every 1500 miles. This was for a German car, and he was using Mobil 1 synthetic.

“I know what I’ve got.”

I felt so incredibly alone in the aftermath of 9/11. It seemed like everybody I knew: friends, family, colleagues, had gone completely insane. “They attacked us,” they’d say, and demand vengeance in the form of terrorizing innocent Middle Eastern citizens. It turns out that we immediately attacked countries that…

I’ve never understood angry drunks.  I’ve known quite a few in my time, and the best explanation I have for it is that anger must trip some kind of a pleasure center in their brains.  Drinking makes me happy and dopey.  The last thing I want to do after a few whiskeys is confront a person in anger... the world is a…

The issue all around with EV pickups is towing. Rivian even says on their build tool that towing will effectively halve range. Obviously the same would be true for most ICE pickups, but the difference is that you can ameliorate that problem in 5 or so minutes at a gas pump. I can tell you that a lot of folks in my…

Volvo 200 series

The Kizashi actually sold pretty well up in my neck of the woods.  They were pretty aggressive with their marketing campaign, airing the commercial with the sled dogs on heavy rotation.  I still see quite a few of them on the road, and they’re nice-looking sedans!  

A popular theory is that it has something to do with lead. Leaded gas fumes, exposure to lead paint, etc.

This one reeks of a boomer’s cigar smoke and Aqua Velva to me, what with all of the police worshipping adornments. 

I get it. We can’t all finish every project we start. But there are few projects that allow you to cash out without taking a serious bath. He’s got to knock a digit off the price if he wants any serious buyers to come around. This thing will be purchased for parts, after all.