In no particular order:

There was an old man in Norway who crashed a Prius on the highway and claimed SUA. It didn't get reported much. From my perspective, it was a pretty clear case of pedal misapplication.

NHTSA has never even once investigated a SUA claim on a manual car. Ever. The sensible thing is to outlaw automatics. For serious.

People were buying Pontiac Firebirds in 1986 because they were in New Jersey.

CP for the seller, because he's probably looking to add to his collection. I think the car is ok, but I'm not going within a mile of this chump.

Unfortunately, here in SF, it's the hippie van.

Plus I remember when I sold parts, a guy came in looking for a radiator for one. When I saw the price, I just laughed at him.

The 240SX convertible. Took a car that could have maintained its real legendary enthusiast chops in the US, ruined the chassis, reinforced its stereotype as a secretary special in a big way, and was only available as an automatic.

This is why I only buy cars without airbags. They're not worth the risk.

Well, my fucking motorcycle got knocked over (while parked) by a driver in a green Subaru station wagon who left the scene. And it's a '75, so I can't exactly go into a store and buy a speedometer housing, which they shattered, or a prop stand, which they bent. I'm still waiting for some random parts to show up on…

Yeah, but Holden and Ford Australian-made utes aren't pickups in the contemporary American sense. Why does an F150 cost like 5 times US market price in Oz, when it's cheaper to make than a midsize car? Every gearhead, farmer, and redneck I've talked to from Australia has said that they'd love to have an American…

Bitch, you're sitting too far back from the wheel.

Australian manufacturers could easily build a factory in NZ if the problem is legal or tax related and NZ is a better regulatory or tax climate (which I think it is). And NZ is lousy with grey-market imports from Japan, so why are so few of them utes? You'd think a Hilux would be pennies on the dollar there. This…

Yeah, I prefer my MKIII, entirely based on looks, but the parts availability, particularly for performance parts, has begun to be a problem.

Also achingly beautiful. I'd second this if I lived in a country where you gould get parts and also didn't have to worry about the gubmint deciding to seize it randomly.

I have a dreadful disease that prevents me from driving this.

The header I put on my Supra actually melted the resonator on the intake, because it doesn't have a heat shield. I've been looking into ways to mount a pizza stone just above the header, so I can make some Neapolitan pizza. It gets a fair sight hotter than my gas oven.

I've always wondered about this. Given the popularity of utes in Australia and New Zealand, why hasn't the market responded by just building assloads of them there and driving down the price, like in the US? Is it like overregulation by the gubmint? Lack of interest on the part of manufacturers? Lack of supply…

Geoff Bodine, Daytona 2000. He kinda limped away, but it is astonishing that he wasn't turned into a fine mist.

People don't "work" at Mercedes dealerships.