around 245k on a late 90's accord here, and there’s an early aughts model around 260k in the extended family too.

I’d like to know why suv is off the table.

i was pricing a ‘just for the hell of it’ trip to portland (from central CA) a few years ago. JUST the round trip on amtrak with the smallest sleeper rang in more expensive than booking flight+hotel+rental car for 3 nights via the usual travel sites (hotwire, etc)

there was a friend of a friend some years back...had a salvage yard in the family. was running around with a ls1+rear mounted turbo stuffed into a late 90's single cab S10.

did some googling on some of the central California stuff, based on the linked 1957 Edition.

well, i have to give GM credit for actually managing to make it a bit less ugly than the last design. then again, there wasn’t a lot of room to make it worse, sooo....

my mid-2000's b-series does, and it’s semi effective.

Slug Bug!

i was thinking the same thing. that’s the only rational explanation why that monstrosity isn’t on the list.

I can’t imagine that there aren’t a bunch of contributing factors to this besides “people are inconsiderate assholes”. Lack of availability of most things that aren’t trucks and SUVs (Ford discontinuing most of their cars, honda discontinuing the fit...), which is also partly down to the fact that trucks are the big…

JB weld got my VW through its last smog without having to buy a $500+ one year only, CA only, EGR filter because the case on mine was split most of the way around...probably wasn’t a fan of the fireballs it would spit with the 5 degrees ATDC the dual vacuum distributor threw in when i wound it up and lifted off the…

that, and the people willing to take out ever longer loans to afford a status symbol...any bets how long till we hit 15 year car notes?

for which i’m thankful :D 

right? and then we make the vehicles taller and heavier to meet the safety standards, and all of the sedans go away to meet the safety standards...

with the recent change to the side impact standards being even more difficult for small cars, no doubt there’s no chance of the fit coming back. even the accord slipped with the change, and the camry fell to ‘poor’. the fit wouldn’t stand a chance in that.

doesn’t look cut in half, looks like one of the smaller standard roll-off dumpsters with a liner (say...10-15 yard range), which have lower sides than the full 40-50 yard stuff most people think of.

My experiences with AAA have been hit or miss over the years. Usually about an hour to respond. Some careless drivers scraping the exhaust on the ground on the low car (ignored me as i was telling him it was going to hit), others on the ball with the no starts and dead batteries.

Murple looks to be an ex-Jucy van....did Jucy pull out of the states?

How does this list NOT include Carmageddon?