Aside from the Aztek, did Pontiac do anything but cars? I remember them always being nicer/better/faster than their Chevy sibling. They were sort of the Mercury of GM’s brands, which wasn’t a bad thing.

No, no, no. The Cougar was a Protege coupe/ZX2 in a liftback hatch form with sporty suspension. I always thought they looked good and kind of wanted one, but for much of the period after they quit making them their values held unusually high and were sticky compared to the base cars, likely due to the more powerful…

I’m surprised they did that much sheet metal modification for these plus a unique bumper. I do remember the tail lights and Mercury always produced basically a Ford with different styling with minor lighting changes, but most that I remember did extremely minor changes that didn’t involve sheet metal. Lincolns were…

Long enough to forget that curb he ran into.

I’m surprised it took this long to see this. I had a similar thought process. “Why is that asshat in a handicap spot?”, then “crunch”. I didn’t even feel bad for the guy.

Retrospectively, this was the best thing about my first car, too. You had to seriously screw up to curb a wheel, they were so small with so much sidewall. Jumping a curb wasn’t anything.

I did an almost identical thing in a parking lot in my FoST. It was this short curb that I didn’t see and caught in a turn when pulling out of a parking space shortly after buying the car. Bottom of a side skirt, which was far from the worst thing that could have happened.

It isn’t possible to eat it without immediately feeling regret. Once it hits your stomach, you question why you did this to yourself...

I’m with you in knowing real Mexican food, but sometimes you just want hot-plate Mexican food (some people call this “family style”, but it’s really just topped heavily with cheese and run through a conveyor broiler, which is why the waitstaff always tells you to “be careful, the plate is hot!”) or dirty fast food…

But then why would used ones have so much value? It’s the opposite of what you’d expect.

This is one of my rules. My car was face lifted with the same mechanicals that had been debugged over the prior model years. I don’t know of any problems they’ve found on my year and beyond that weren’t repairable with some software.

That LT1 engine design deserved an award for being so stupid that you had to question whether they were being malicious when they did these things.

For more fun info that you never knew about the relationships between these compact cars:

Who rents out 8+ year old Cobalts?!

So far I haven’t seen any negative effects, but it hasn’t been around long enough for it to work through.

I’m sure the Journey is picking up the slack since they quit producing the Dart, 200, and T&C. They just don’t have much crap left to dump on the market...

Do you go to a Lamborghini dealer, sit in one, then buy a Passat? Because that’s what this is.

I don’t know... They were basically a PT Cruiser with a CVT (and that sweet beer cooler) and a body that attracted the attention of cops. There were people that apparently bought two PTs that were also apparently sober.

I don’t know... The rental one I drove was nowhere near as good as my wife’s, and hers is not perfect.

I must admit. A minivan that women with an SUV obsession will drive is also a bonus.