Merkur XR4Ti/Ford Sierra. We’ve got one, yes... but what about second wing?

A Dodge Viper. Everyone should experience what it’s like to be behind the wheel of a vehicle that’s actively trying to kill you, even if just for a couple minutes.

Obviously this is US-specific, as there are plenty of wagons alive and well in the rest of the world...

Porsche 911 Turbo.

The Mustang II. Sounded good at first... a smaller platform, less weight, potentially more nimble? Perfect for a sports car! But Ford based it on the Pinto platform. It came with a 4-cylinder engine making under 90hp. But you could get an optional V6 making just a hair over 100!

Pennsylvania. The roads are in terrible shape and are constantly being worked on. The weather is too crappy to do it in the winter so they double down in summer and have a road-construction bonanza. You’ll be guaranteed to hit tons of construction traffic, and the parts of the highway that aren’t being worked on are…

Worst dealership experience? I worked for one for almost 12 years (internet sales, then an upper management position in the internet/tech team).

Crew cab pickup was already mentioned up above, but I’m going to say a heavy duty crew cab dually pickup. I saw one parked on an urban street in Pittsburgh the other day that had one set of rear wheels on the curb and the other set protruding almost a foot into the traffic lane. To make matters worse, most dually…

2011 Suzuki SX4:

Cadillac Cimarron. With models like the BMW 3-Series and other small European luxury cars getting popular in the US, GM wanted to compete... so they stuck a Cadillac badge on a Chevy Cavalier and gave it “luxury” equipment like velour seats and power windows. It also got the Cavalier’s 80hp 4-cylinder engine... but…

Renault Clio V6. It’s barely faster than its top of the line mass-produced counterpart, the handling is tricky, it’s got the turning radius of a box truck, and barely any useful interior space. It really is not very good at being a sports car OR a daily driver, and there are so, so many better options out there.

As opposed to an... illegal fee?

The sound of the half-destroyed Chevy truck that the dude around the corner from me owns. It’s running on maybe 6 or 7 cylinders, the mufflers have either been cut off or fell off, and it’s got some nasty lifter noise too. But he thinks everyone in the neighborhood needs to hear it, all the time. 

Seriously. I saw so many POS GM cars that just wouldn’t die when I worked for a dealership. As long as you didn’t have one of the (many) models that had an Achilles heel they’d run forever as they slowly fell apart. And I can’t think of any other brands that could have as much stuff break as an old GM car and still…

All things being equal, winter tires will perform better than all-season tires in wintry conditions.

IME it seems like the worst offenders are the ones with Connecticut plates.

Pennsylvania really might as well be two (or even three) states so I’ll nominate the Pittsburgh Left. The way it works is this: If you’re at the front of the line to turn left at a light that doesn’t have a dedicated left turn arrow, the very split second the light turns green you put your foot to the floor and…

The small town in Massachusetts where my wife got her license. No parallel parking or complicated situations of any kind. From what I recall she basically had to drive around the block.

2. How do you change the lights? You have a headlight out. You have to pop them up to change them, which means you have to turn them on. Or you can use some sort of screw jack thing, which either doesn’t work right, or you forget about and you end up winking.

I nominate the Cizeta V16T.