It is also in the same design philosophy as the Volvo 140 - basically a conservative sedan, sturdy as a truck - which can only be a good thing. Obviously.

This is the best Jalopnik list ever! A super rare 780, UAZ 469 and a Corvette on the same list...all topped by a bloody Maxima - and I actually agree - really tickles all my car nerves.

I have a very weak spot for the GAZ 24. It’s not “the best” (the 21 is a massively better car), but I think the looks are adorable. They also made a small run with a V8, known as the KGB Interceptor. One of them was for sale on mobile.de recently for 15000€. Driver 24’s are often available for ~2000€ in Eastern Europe…

As you say, the whole shenanigan appears to be a joke. Several German airports were recently reported to be threatened with court action for not screening their passengers well enough. Most people have understood that

So would the Crown hearse have a V12 under the hood, too?

You are so definitely right! If you leave mature markets, there is a lot of car candy to count on. Even though Peugeot’s 504, France’s best attempt at a broad market Mercedes, is a special car.

Exactly my thoughts, too. Amazing how the construction just slid off the frames. Traditionally, single lifes have been sort of dispensible in this strangely collectivist society, and it is a very old truck, but that just looks incredibly scary.

That is no new strategy. Peugeot kept on selling the 206 forever, but figured later on it was cannibalizing itself. Renault brought the Dacia nameplate back to life with simplified old Renault designs with a fresh face. That, sort of, evolved and Dacia is now a very popular brand in Europe. They are cashing in…

Don’t know how to contact you via Kinja? Fresh images and video from the “Arctic Challenge”exercise that might interest you:

Is rust much of an issue down under? Because most people live in coastal regions, probably?

Milton Keynes, older brother to Maynard Keynes, never really saw his get-this-economy-rolling-metaphor of “lets collapse roofs and build them up again” take off.

A Hyundai in this list means...they hade made it? Congrats, you’re grown up!

Not about numbers. Much.

The answer is always BTCC:

I almost bought myself another ‘77 Volvo 242, then thought about a Cannondale CAAD 8 bike, and ended up using my tax refund on a boring UV water cleaning unit for the house.

Wow, where’s that? They must be as far away from each other as possible in every reliability stat table.

How could I not include the Miata with a brown diesel wagon sticker?

What? On Jalopnik, cross-shopping a Focus, a 20 year old Bentley and a factor fresh UAZ 9-seater is a top 5 pastime.

Great idea! I guess you just expanded the General Jalopniks allergy of RVs to big yellow walls of slow.

Hard to understand. Fonts like Futura and Helvetica are timeless, endlessly modern. Why even use time to dillute that? A bit like Coke saying they’ll write their famous logo in Times New Roman instead.