It’s the french fries at KFC Australia.

There’s a button on the dash that raises/lowers the hoop and there’s a mesh insert that acts as a sort of wind deflector, which stores against the bulkhead of the trunk. Unlike the removable hardtop, you shouldn’t necessarily expect this to come with the vehicle, unfortunately. If you’re using the deflector you’d need…

True. TBQH I’d been looking at the SL600 so I was less familiar with the 6-cylinder, but I guess I got a bit too excited when I saw the R129 popping up in NPOCP

Also worth mentioning: the car is deceptively small. It’s strictly a 2-seater (no “fake” back seats were available) and although they were available from 1989 they drive beautifully - these feel much more modern than their age would suggest.

These are exceptionally rare; in fact, before I bought my current project car I had been researching R129's. Like any (arguably) collector car, it’s worth waiting for the right one - but all that goes out the window if you want a stick shift. As the article states, the V6 was dropped in ‘98, and that meant losing the…

Oh yeah, I mean, I put 93 in my Jaguar and have no qualms with it; but then, I would hardly describe the experience of driving it as Andrew described this thing “...the physical act of driving it is kind of banal”.

I once replied in a thread like this one that regular cars (like this) which aren’t sporty should never require premium fuel, and got chewed out by a moron for my efforts. As it is, a number of people will look at this new car, with its intelligent new engine, shrug, and say “meh, Infiniti cars need premium” as they…

Semi-related question:
Do you ever get contacted by sellers who’ve found their NPOCP articles?
Given how highly the Forester XT guy thinks of his car I bet he found the article within minutes of it being posted...

Ewww..... you like the Monkees?

Fix its maladies and restore it to glory

I love that the video simulates the pain that the cars endure through editing, music and Instagram’s inability to provide basic playback controls or sizing

you just mad ‘cause she stole your ipad to sell & buy live chickens

thread needs more vag

You musta been sitting on a pizza stone because your ass just got BURNED

You musta been sitting on a pizza stone because your ass just got BURNED

It’s a drive, but while you can go to the National Air & Space Museum at the mall you owe it to yourself to make the trip to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles. There, you will find smaller crowds, and:
•the Space Shuttle Discovery
•an SR-71 Blackbird
•an Air France Concorde
•the Enola Gay
among countless other…

Hey; this may be unrelated, but can we please have a way to disable the infuriating autoplay video that infests all AVClub posts? It’s never relevant to the article, and always unwelcome.

You mentioned the instruments; but there isn’t a single photo of them in the article unless I missed it?

A Subaru of some description.. . . . . . ?

This’ll get the Millennials on board

Seems far more interesting to me than Nascar tbqh, and Jalopnik is still posting stories about that shit. It’s almost like the site isn’t responsible for just one faction of readers, eh?