You must live close to Raphael. Having a ‘76 Dart Sedan gives me a quasi-photographic memory for the 1974-1975-1976 Chrysler A-bodies!

1st gear: Mercury didn’t die because of the LTD, Mercury died because as the 1970s progressed the cars lost 100% of their distinctiveness and the only difference between the Mercury and the Ford was a name badge and a $83.00 price difference.

Facebook is surprisingly decent for searching vintage cars now that eBay and Hemmings are 90% flippers are asking quadruple market price on everything.

Craigslist is great for getting rid of stuff you just want the hell gone right this minute and really don’t care how much you get for it.

It would have been especially effective if the duct tape was strategically placed to prevent access to said member, taking great care to include all adjacent hair follicles.

A friend of mine said if you test drive both, you’ll end up buying the Santa Cruz like he did. Plus look at this, then look at the Maverick. It’s like do you want a stale, unflavored rice cake or a warm, buttery croissant?

This is a Gran Coupe.

It’s all meaningless until the trucks loophole fiasco is addressed, which is why everyone transitioned from their inefficient large cars to obscenely inefficient and even larger trucks and SUVs. Not to mention the safety impact of even lighter cars trying to go up against these monstrosities.

Those taillights have a Photoshop Elements 2 level of sophistication... as in not very.

It might fly in more civilized parts of the world (as in non-US) but here the driver would not be safe.

Does Jalopnik’s new extended warranty cover all those high-mileage 2014-2018 articles that have started appearing in the “Latest” feed?

1st gear: I disagree, I think hybrids are much better option than putting everyone into the all or nothing position of sticking with ICE or taking the leap to an EV when all but one of the affordable options (Kona) have crap range. I don’t think I’d be courageous enough to be check the off the box for first KIA…

The whole thing that makes this ugly is the way he tried to spin it like he wanted the car. No real bidder that really wanted to win the car would give away their competitive edge like that, so it couldn’t have been more obviously fake. Had he merely said, hey, this is our car, and we left out a lot of details, BAT…

Especially as the market pivots to extremely wasteful, oversize resource devouring shit like GM’s Hummer.

I bet this thing makes Honda think “Gee, wish we hadn’t restyled Civic to look like an three-quarter scale Accord.”

All the pedestrians and those of us living the Invasion of Body Snatchers version of Car vs. Crossover/SUV/Bro Truck very much agree.

Why does my brain see the name Gol and translate it into GOL! ...like it would pronounced by an angry Klingon?

2014. Damn, Gizmodo, just two more years and we’ll be reaching back a full decade.

As an Apple car will in actuality be a KIA or some other brand, not an actual Apple product, I think Nio is worrying for no reason. Not that some rabid Apple fans won’t buy one anyway despite the evidence otherwise, they will refuse to believe, much like trying to tell a Mercedes owner their car was made in North…

Beauty is the eye of the beholder, perhaps some people are drawn to the Marty-Feldman-eyes thing. Seriously, this was a wee bit mean, a lot bit immature, and yes, dammit, I giggled a little.