Jalopnik is my car club. We criticize Tesla, tag most cars as “crack pipe” and make fun of Mustang bros. 

I’m going to be cremated and donate my ashes to Ferrari’s testing program.

“I don’t feel so good.” A small, wan voice coming from the back seat. I know it isn’t a sound made by the car itself but it is an absolutely awful sound, especially when you are in a car.

Sudden quiet. You get used to funny noises your car makes as it ages. Then you are going down the highway.. and the funny noise stops. Eerie quiet fill the car as you wonder “things don’t just fix themselves. They just stop working...” And about that time, a light comes on on the instrument panel.

I agree that if it feels off, walk.....  but this was a standard (albeit gaudy) option at the time.

That is very factory.  At least it isnt a red/white interior.

AvtoVAZ and Dongfeng before that!

I can absolutely assure you Fox bodies could be had with a two-tone dash.

I was gonna say, the transition between the red and grey on the dash looks off.. like someone spray painted half of it. 

Definitely the worst. My wife and I make fun of them every time they come on. “You have a perfect driving record, and then you T-bone one school bus full of puppies and nuns while high on PCP and your insurance company raises your rates. How unfair is that?”

One of the “Mahk” commercials specifically hits at this...

What, do you want them to bring back the “Ford aluminum body bashing ads”? “Let’s drop 10,000 tons of meteorite into each bed and see which one fares better.”
Their whole marketing department is terrible.  So are their designers, look at the Camaro.

You can bet your sweet a$$ the B21 has it for those reasons.

I think the thing that keeps nagging at me is what I’m going to do with my parents’ cars when their time finally comes.  I hope to have another good 20-30 years with them, so maybe the issue will sort itself out, but my mom has a 94 Viper that I certainly hope she doesn’t get rid of any time soon.  I really like that…

A year and a half ago I purchased a 1981 TTA Daytona Pace Car out of a RVA barn where it had sat for the previous 10 years.

I’m right there with you. I have my fathers ‘65 Ford Falcon Ranchero, which he bought new, sitting in my garage where it hasn’t moved in way too many years.

Oh I have no comment on the design for the intercoolers, just pointing out that it was not in fact the radiator.  What you say probably makes perfect sense.  This whole thing is is nucking futs and I can’t say it is or isn’t worth the ask (I wouldn’t ever buy it).

Not making this up: Haval is actually Hebrew for “Vanity.”

For Sale:  Range Rover Convertibles.........cheap.