You forgot another demographic who drives these full-size cars Doug. The hipsters driving their grandfather’s old car. If the automakers can find a way to sell new full-size cars pre-made with that “hasn’t been waxed in 20 years” patina and smell of mothballs and price them for $5000 they’ll have the market cornered.

That’s the general consensus of most of the internet when the story came out.

The story went viral a few months ago. The Corvette parked first and the Jeep guy parked next to him to teach him a lesson.

I’d love to see this used in parking enforcement. Someone parked in a handicapped space, no parking zone, or occupying more than one spot? Send the bots in to move the car and then leave them a parking ticket for it.

Lada Niva - Russia.

Pretty much any Volvo just screams Sweden.

This is one thing that’s awesome about Subarus- their layout is much more simple than your typical car of that size. Engine and trans mounted longitudinally, engine in front of the front axle.

That ad also apologizes for the price, which at $44,000 ain’t chicken feed, but explains that the current owner is seeking to buy a Testarossa and hence is looking to bank that form the sale of this big Benz.

Those are indeed Autotrader test ads, I’ve had them pop up in my inventory feeds while on the phone troubleshooting with tech support. They’re placed by Autotrader’s people just to check on various things and are deleted as soon as they find out what they need to know.

Autotrader’s default search results sorting method is highest to lowest price, so by pricing the car ridiculously high they show up at the top of the list... Until the shopper clicks to sort low to high.

You actually can get this styling on the U.S. model as well, it’s called the Journey Crossroad. Top of the line model, you aren’t getting one of these for 14 grand.

They’re still making it because of the Canadian market. For some reason the Canucks love these things, for several years it was actually the best selling Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep/Ram vehicle there. Were it just for the US market they’d have discontinued it years ago.

Hold my beer and watch this!

“Sorry, we cannot give them to you, they are on the roof”

He told me I had no idea what I was talking about, obviously, told me the Grand Touring was much more appropriate “for a customer like me” and demanded to speak to my husband.

Great Scott!

Ah, yes, how could I forget.

The Delorean DMC-12. Brilliant design for the time, super cool looking, and made of freaking stainless steel. From the outward appearance, the recipe for an amazing sports car. And... powered by a 130hp PRV V6. That plus bad timing with an auto market slump doomed it, and John DeLorean’s legal troubles while trying to…

Actually the Smart ForTwo was too wide to be a kei car. They had to modify it to be slightly narrower to qualify for kei status.

Pretty much, yeah.