I don't know—I still see 2nd-gen Probes for sale and on the road from time to time, but I honestly can't remember the last time I saw a 1st-gen. But yeah, you don't see too many 2nd-gens, either.

Getting back to answering the question actually asked (rather than just naming a car that was rare to start with and feigning surprise that it's hard to find now), I'll nominate the 1st-gen Ford Probe. They were certainly no replacement for the Mustang, and Ford was foolish to think that they would ever be accepted…

This.

The coolest thing about the Camry wagon, by far, is the dual rear wipers.

A running, driving Renault Fuego Turbo.

Nico is definitely a long shot at this point, and he'll surely have to win more than one race to take this year's WDC, but if everyone keeps taking points off each other it'll definitely be the best season in many years. I would not be surprised if Nico wins a few more races this season now that he's broken his duck.…

God that's a horrible bit of bum fluff.

They're rubber boots that go over the "base" of the wiper arm (where it pivots). They were all the rage (along with the aforementioned double-wiper-blades and triple-wiper-wings) in "auto accessories" aisles of various auto-parts stores in the late '80s.

I vaguely remember that one, too. Did a little checking and there's a book purporting to have the "Best of Bax." I might have to grab a copy. You might want to, too.

You need these too. They're so euro.

I had no idea that there was such a thing as a fake sunroof. IMO, that is the dumbest thing on the list and certainly dumber than wiper wings (which started off as OEM and were probably semi-functional for improving the wiper's pressure on the windshield, but quickly devolved into the horrible, neon…

That's the one! And the fact that we both remember a column that appeared in a monthly magazine close to 30 years ago really is a testament to the quality of Baxter's storytelling.

Congrats! Great COTD and just goes to show that the quest to relieve oneself while driving never really dies, it just ebbs and—ahem—flows.

Yeah, I never kept track of the miles on most of them, so this many cars in, it's probably pointless to start now. My spreadsheet has columns for year, make, model, color, body style, and country of origin. Since I'm an inveterate cheapskate and have only purchased two vehicles new (and of those, only one of them…

Glad to know I'm not the only one who keeps a spreadsheet of my cars. I created it when I realized I was in danger of forgetting some of the cars I've owned (I'd have to go back and check, but I just bought a car yesterday that I think puts me up to number 84—I'd have to go check my spreadsheet and update it to be…

I think I've now owned something like 83 or 84 cars (plus the demos I used to get when I was selling cars) in the nearly 24 years I've been driving, which means that on average, I haven't spent a whole lot of time in most of them. So after a little head scratching, I realized that this answer is actually pretty easy:…

Even so, the other 10% probably shop at Somerset. On the rare occasion I'm there, I spend a little time people-watching, and there are a LOT of unhappy people there, no matter the season.

I saw this headline and was really, really hoping it was another throwdown at Somerset.

You're assuming that they had full mental faculties. This is most assuredly not always the case. I spent some time working in a Buick store at a time when most of our sales were to customers who were old enough to assume they were buying their last car. A fair number of these customers weren't "all there" and there…

"Their debt-to-income ratio would be upwards of 88%"