Per FMVSS requirements, all housings are self-certified by the OEM. Any alteration of any sort that deviates from that counts as an illegal housing.

“As a genuine taillight enthusiast—I’ve been to Tailcon 15 years running”

Everyone else is wondering what to do with the cord, all i can think is "which of my cars will the wheels fit onto?"

Time to rewire everything!

Cars are appliances.  I was just thinking yesterday while watching nightrider reruns, there hasn't been a multiple-season hero-car series in over a decade...

they are actually mesh alloy’s.

No, mazda is like the better saab, without the funky customers

I do know 1.  My grandfather.  But he worked at a chrysler dealer for 40 years.  It's taken the last 10 years to convince him that cars can still function over 80k miles.

i don’t understand why they don’t make the manual option cost more to justify the lower take rate.

The worst part is that the new curvy/angular panels don't lend themselves as well to add-on graphics as they did in that era

More importantly, WHAT HAPPENED TO VINCE?!?

Depends on your recasting skills!

I just told one of my buddies that the other week. He’s a classic Porsche guy. He’d never heard it, and was actually rolling on the floor laughing, likely at the headaches he previously hadn't thought to create at the local parts stores.

Kids get such nice first cars these days.

all hail the great grammar nazi.

it reminds me of ‘blackface’.  it’s an american company building a european car for the american market.

exactly how i feel. in the other posts, i’ve described it as ‘focus group lines’.

If the electronics were on par for the 80's as well(obd1, no canbus), it would be high on my list to look at

You should have been in the focus groups!

To little too late though.  Ford made leaps and bounds with the ST lineup.