Yep, the number is a dead giveaway, but I couldn't find a pic of the MP4/4 that was nearly as good.

My approach to this question has always been on the realistic side, I guess (no pie-in-the-sky cars that I know I'll never have a shot at driving), and focused more on cars I need to *own* before I die. For the longest time, there have been only two cars on that list. The first is a DS. And two years ago, I bought…

Looking at the lead photo, it appears to have been stored on Dagobah. The seller probably could get a few extra bucks advertising it as Yoda's own Isetta.

And taking attrition into account, you have to wonder how many are still on the road. I'm thinking it can't be more than 200 in the U.S. It always pains me to see one being parted.

I'll nominate one of my own cars: the Audi UrS6 Avant. Imported to the U.S. for only one year (1995, plus cheating a little to avoid OBDII requirements, "1995.5"), the common wisdom is that Audi brought about 300 of them here in total. As a turbocharged, intercooled, 20-valve inline-5, manual-transmission,…

"Here's the takeaway from this: Even with research, sometimes you can be left in the red."

" From the inside, it's a dazzling array of big gray buttons and green lights."

Here's the real link: https://westslope.craigslist.org/cto/4740858800…

It's not a frankencar—at that time, Volvo sourced its diesel engines for the 2xx and 7xx from VW.

I should be sad at this news, I suppose—after all, I started listening to this show more than 30 years ago. Tom's braying laugh is literally part of the soundtrack of my life.

I came for the Pope's Nose and you did not disappoint. Thanks, Torch!

Which puts the Cavilier in good company with the Camero and the Tuarus.

It's entirely possible that when Bunyan wrote about the Slough of Despond, this is what he had in mind.

I'd been waiting and wanting for ages for Subaru to bring a WRX to the States, so much so that as soon as it was confirmed that it was going to happen, I put a deposit down at the Subaru dealer to hold my place near the front of the line. When I finally got to drive one of the first 2002 models to hit the ground, it…

Exactly. So even good alignment numbers are meaningless because as long as the camber, caster, and toe can be brought to within the manufacturer's tolerances (however unorthodox the means of attaining those numbers), it does not mean that the chassis was properly repaired.

On Craigslist and eBay, it seems to happen all the time. It's kind of like when you go to the farmer's market and all of the produce is, amazingly, organic!

I call bullshit. An insurance company doesn't declare a car a total loss (thereby causing the car to have a salvage or rebuilt title) when the damage is only 5 or 6% of the market value of the car in question ($3K damage against a car with a market value of $45-50K). For example, in Michigan, a salvage title does…

Easy:

I bought one of these for $250 a couple of years ago. It was rusty and ugly but what a hoot to drive—that 4AGE was worth well over the price of admission. For whatever reason, the major Japanese manufacturers were all about the Kammback hatch during the late '80s and Toyota did it pretty well.

On paper, this car checks all the right boxes. But god help you if you ever need to do any engine work. How many other VAG products used the W8? Oh, none? That's just swell.