Mostly, yes. However some buyers are going to be concerned about resale value, and the Germans would win on that, though maybe not by much given that their cars start so much higher. The flip side of that coin is, it just means that people will be able to pick up an awesome and cheap used Stinger GT 18 months after…

Wow, there are a lot of people these days who are able to just disappear any respect I had for their intellect, critical faculties, and their station in life.

And that’s the LARGEST city in WY. Which is half the size of my hometown AFTER it has lost population due to the gutting of manufacturing jobs...

I remember seeing a white Countach just like this one waiting for its turn on the auction block at Barrett-Jackson about 10 years ago. Definitely one of those “never meet your heroes” moments. The thing was seriously held together with rubber cement. There were so many interior bits either broken from the effects of…

Unsurprising. If they stuck with the car mostly as-is, nothing was reasonably going to change. The problem with this thing was always its weight. This post doesn’t cover that aspect of the car, but that was always its major problem. Bad first-gen EV tech was the other. Tesla clearly got both things right, so the Karma…

GTIs are just hot generally speaking, and to me, mint older ones have that same air of driving greatness that pretty much any cherry older German car has. They definitely have the Teutonic mystique.

Well, if Waymo’s testing of the self-driving Chrysler minivan around Chandler, AZ is any indication, they’re testing in the real world as much as the computer-generated. I constantly see their cars tooling around.

There probably isn’t a human language that can convey my envy.

Ya know the one G-body that never gets love because it was and still is the most wallflower, rare, non-descript-looking special out of the 80s performance G-body lineup?

The 80s 442 was hotness on wheels back in the day. But all the G-bodies paled next to the Buick when it came to speed and general badassery.

VERY nice. If I had an 80s Monte SS, I’d use your mod list as a blueprint. I’d go a scoche taller on the wheels and a couple inches lower on the ride height, but hot stuff, man. Real hot stuff.

I remember seeing BtS production footage of this before it came out. My exact first thought was “Eddie Griffin and high dolla cars? If such a thing could work, this isn’t it.”

I don’t usually hate entire vehicles. I hate really bad aspects of cars. Take, for example, these details:

Holy shit now I totally remember this commercial.

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Thanks for sharing this. Yours is an experience that lends credence to why people can’t get complacent and sit around, election season or not. If people assume family bonds will act as a bulwark against fascism when worse comes to worse, we can all kiss that hope goodbye. Families are comprised of people “on both…

“You Do Not Need The Best Version Of Your Car To Have A Great Time”

As a child of the 80s, this post is 197% on the money. The F-14 was THE plane back then. When us impressionable young boys on the school playground weren’t talking about the Concorde or the scary Russian MiGs, we were talking about the F-14. Or at least, most of my friends were. Top Gun, Transformers, G.I. Joe, all…

I’m just not digging that front fascia. I’m really hoping that’s NOT part of the styling equation when it breaks, but I doubt things will play out that way.

That makes sense. Discourage bad prior behavior and reward changes to positive behavior. Simple human psychology.