I’ve done the one-way rental car thing a few times. Worth it every time -

Oldsmobile’s Rocket will always have my heart.

This one happened to my wife, (no, she didn’t cause it...): She was traveling from Norfolk to Newport News, VA through the Monitor-Merrimack Bridge Tunnel. We’re locals, so we’re both unfazed by tunnels. (I wish everyone could maintain speed in them, but whatever). As she was nearing the end of the tunnel, she started…

Was looking in my father’s BMW once and found this weird stick-thingy on the side of the steering column. Made a clicking sound when you pushed it up or down. No idea if it had any use.

Pop-up headlights!

Nissan Altima. I don’t know how it came to be the go-to car for shitty drivers, but whenever I see one in my peripheral vision I know I’m about to get cut off.

Our driver’s ed class had a few weeks of “on the range” training where we drove cars on an enclosed parking lot course. We partnered two people to a car and did basic maneuvers together. One particular day, my partner and I “lucked out” and got the newest car, a first-gen Chevy Cavalier sedan. We were generally pretty…

We need a deadpan comedy about the conception of the Pontiac Aztek. 

Wheels that are actually concave! At some point in the 90's, wheels stopped dishing inwards and started looking more flat. Probably because of aerodynamics and making a compact footprint while still accommodating disc brakes, but wheels looks so much better when they had depth.

The city I live in hosts an international auto show every year in January. A key player in making that show happen was a good friend and colleague in the PR industry who handled the automobile dealers association’s PR. He always got the coolest accounts in town, was a really colorful guy, and a gentleman. For years,…

When I first got my ‘68 Cutlass, it had an Olds 350 V8, which soon developed a knock. After some research, I quickly learned that parts for a 350 rebuild were roughly the same price as parts for rebuilding an Olds big block, so I got a 425 Olds from a junkyard and rebuilt that instead. Not that much more money, big…

Gave this some thought and I feel like every time we discuss worst cars the Kia Rondo sneaks quietly by, hoping we won’t notice. It’s easily the weakest attempt at “Hey, this car is really an SUV” to ever roll off a car lot. It’s probably great from a utilitarian perspective - how can it not be with such skewed…

Lol - When my mother wrecked hers, she remembers standing in the shop at the Subaru dealership (car was a month old) and the mechanic looking at the completely trashed front end and saying “I can fix that.”

I feel like this is an elaborate troll by Bugatti, as they feel like they sold a car to someone with a screw loose.

Wow... My mother actually wrecked one, too and walked away fine, but given where the impact is on that one, I think you had it way worse! I daily an ‘89 Firebird and also have a ‘68 Cutlass and a ‘80 Spitfire, so I should probably worry more about safety. 

My first car was a 1984 Subaru GL 4x4 sedan, complete with digital dash and those awesome white mini-wagon-wheel-style steelies. I hated it when I had it - it was underpowered and people used to laugh when I opened the hood and there was the spare tire.

Curious to see how this correlates with comments on NP/ND articles on this site. Seems like commenters consistently feel like those vehicles are overpriced as well - often they are correct, but sometimes I feel like it’s a knee jerk reaction to automatically assume that any private listing is looking for pie in the…

Rare? Yeah. Interesting? Maybe. Offensive? Probably. Buick must have sold these cars to 113 50-somethings in the 80's who thought they had a real executive hot rod. Each one of these 113 cars must be imbued with the still-living poltergeist of shattered dreams and disappointment from middle aged men who were…

Easily the Power Wheels JoJo Siwa Jeep. Just look at it. The range sucks. The roll bar offers zero protection, and its top speed is, shall we say, anemic. Not to mention I don’t think this think would make it 10 feet into Moab. Dammit Jeep, get your shit together.

This is the way.