Clean little utili-box with a stick and a V6. All under $2k.
First rule of Range Anxiety on Jalopnik:
Ist Gear: Collusion
The ADO16 was clever, useful, and quirkily attractive. BMC decided the market needed a change of pace and brought out this amalgamation of uninspiring, poorly-built, Old Blighty mediocrity.
This is an Ugly Duckling of a vehicle that got dropped before it had time to grow into a Lovely Swan. $16k is a lot of money for somebody’s mistake, even Honda’s.
“This unnatural mixing and mongrelization of the condiments which God himself has ordained cannot be allowed!”
Did you bring Jalopnik no joy?
The initial fingering on the video was pretty self-consciously explicit.
Ecce!
a tri-power 428 with an economy final drive? Even a 3.90 shows a lack of commitment to life a quarter mile at a time.
There should be both-sides-ism for obeying traffic laws. I can sometimes feel like giving bike messengers a pass (they struggle through traffic in all weather and are trying to do their jobs) as opposed to “hey-look-at-my-lycra covered ass- I-bet-you-thought-I-was-a-pro” guy leveraging his physical effort into above-th…
Well, this, kind of.
“Do you mean to tell me there’s NOT an insatiable demand in America for mediocre professional football? Are you smoking some of that stuff Boehner’s been pushing?”
Neutral: Tesla a normal car company?
3d Gear: Red Hot Kias/Hyundais
You know how there are collections of non-viable mutant monster fetuses in formaldehyde? This car belongs in a jar like that: perfectly preserved but pointless. (Preferably alongside a jar containing its similarly benighted cousin, the Cadillac Allante.)
NAFTA??
It’s all well and good that you talked to a gynecologist about vaginal health, but I’m not making my final thumbs up/down on this garment until I hear bagdash’s response.