Just buy another car. Seriously. If you have one car which can’t be relied on for basic transportation — and you plan to use it as such occasionally — then you need another car. Whether it’s a second car or a replacement car or whatever is up to you. But what you have there is a hobby car, and using it for anything…

Isn’t there also the crazy application/selection process to even buy one of these, where the potential owners need to prove that they’re actually going to drive them? Ford wants people to submit social media accounts and send them a video showing that they’re not just planning to add to a collection, but lead active…

It absolutely was. It was a performance bargain compared to the cars it competed against, and mechanically it was dead simple.

I’m simultaneously impressed and disgusted by this.

I have a W140 and the compressor hisses to the point that it makes people around the car think one of my tires sprung a leak. I’ve had lots of people knock on my window to tell me they hear a hiss and to check my tires. Haha nope, that’s just what the car sounds like.

Having this stuff done right by a professional (or really any high-end coating, even vinyl) really is almost as expensive as a new paint job. The only advantage is that it’s temporary. But getting extremely good results costs money, just like with paint.

I think the wall just got ten feet higher.

I would drive that everywhere.

Yeah but the one you really want is like $45k.

When I was in high school, I had a summer job at an extremely exclusive country club. It was a Jewish club, so it was closed on Saturdays, but they let employees use the course when the club was closed. I had never golfed in my life, but it sounded like fun, so I invited a few friends and we took out a couple of carts…

The Huracan is the only Lamborghini in the last twenty years that I’d actually spend my own imaginary dollars on. It’s wild enough to be interesting, but restrained enough to not be embarrassing.

No, but neither does Raphael Orlove.

Case closed? What? You didn’t even make a point. That was one big non sequitur.

He seems like a pretty awesome guy to me.

What the fuck is with the axe to grind against Boris Johnson here? How does this have anything to do with cars, other than that he was an auto journalist at one point in the late 1980s/early 1990s? Get the fuck over it; there are people who think differently than you and voted accordingly. Go write for a political…

As far as recalls go, this should be pretty much the easiest one in history. They made less than a thousand of them, and I’m sure they have a special relationship with the owners anyway.

Totally agree. These cars were so well designed. The Accord started to get a little wonky by 1994, and it was all downhill after 2000.

Yeah, they’ve been downhill for the last fifteen years or so.

Honda was such a design-conscious company for basically the entirety of its history up until roughly 2000, when it all just started to fall apart. But few — if any — companies have ever done economy cars with design as consistently brilliant as Honda.

That’s actually a good point. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Musk himself went around leaving positive comments on articles about him.