Captiva is an island along the southwestern coast of Florida that is often along the way to someplace worth going but seldom worth going to on its own. Perfect name for this thing.

My Prizm “Moonshine” has been the closest thing I’ve had to a waifu and I’ve been driving it almost fifteen years now.

Historical Footnote: It used to be a bad joke that every so often, while a Labour Party administration was in charge in the UK, they would trade away the production rights on British goods to Soviet-bloc nations for goods or raw materials from them. I could just picture the scene at A.C.: “We’re confiscating the…

I just bubbled in C&D’s quote on a 2018 Yaris into the bls.gov calculator and set the dial to the model year I was born—1967. Came out to $2200. What could you buy THEN for $2200?

Would you drive flat-out if there was nothing to win?

I got a second-hand Tercel in 1990 to replace my first car, an AMC Concord that had survived two crashes but was on its second tranny and drove like it. I called it the “Anton Martin” because it was gray, previously belonged to a high school classmate of mine named Anton and at one point my parking pass number was 007.…

In 1966 British sketch comedy TV defined the Superthunderstingcar.

This summer, I’ll have owned my Chevrolet Prizm for 15 years.

Gundam and Toyota have BEEN THERE and DONE THAT. Sorta.

This is the car I wanted to own when I was in college. There was a TVR dealership just a few miles from campus and came close to badgering myself into taking a test drive.
Of course, if I had that car, and not an AMC Concord station wagon, I’d be DEAD now. Some things are not meant to be.
The engine is common with…

It surprises me that more people don’t doll up their KIA Amati sedans to look more like the Mercedes or Jaguar cars the Amati’s designers were ripping off. COME ON! I’ve already seen somebody put Mercedes badges on a Ford MINIVAN.

And I would be your first customer. Chevy Prizm needs a refresh. Got hubcaps?

https://world.taobao.com/item/45518774367.htm <- You asked for it!

Taobao is like a JC Whitney’s for Chinese car marques. I went there a couple months specifically to look for Baojun and Changan (Star Trek) badges, mud guards, gear shifter knobs and the like.
Yes, I would be amenable to rebadging my Chevy as something Chinese—for the shock value. :)

I sort of kind of invited them to drive the Tail of the Dragon. Maybe they could do that in Series 3 next year.

What about the urban legend of a couple going through a bitter divorce, husband says “sell my car and send me the money” and wife takes it to the “if it drives it’s worth Five Grand” dealership...

It’s a little known fact that GODDAMN is a sequel to AREA 88, in that two minor characters from that series re-appear in GODDAMN. Kaoru Shintani has also made FUTARI TAKA (about Grand Prix motorcycle racing) and HIDARI O’CLOCK (about a biker gang war).

Charles Foster Kane: You’re right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars *next* year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I’ll have to close this place in... 60 years.
(—CITIZEN KANE)

Had a Mercury Topaz back at the turn of this Century. It replaced a Ciera that “died” under mysterious circumstances when I was working a heavy commuting job in late 1997. Needed a car in a hurry and the Topaz was a repo at the bank where I did business...and it was the only repo they had that could be driven off…

1984 Ford LTD Crown Victoria sedan. 302 under the hood, and fitted out pretty well. No end to the power—when it was healthy. Very thirsty too, but gas was “cheap” in the time I was driving it.