uncletravelingmatt
UncleTravelingMatt
uncletravelingmatt

I think the new Accord is pretty handsome too. I was beyond baffled earlier this week to see the mention in whatever article piece of shit listicle that mentioned how people somehow hate the styling.

Since day one, I’ve been enamored with the stylings of the first-gen Chevy Venture. A crappy minivan to replace the also crappy GM Dustbuster vans with something theoretically more conventional.

It (still) looks like a slightly uglier S-class with myriad needlessly complex bits of engineering (even compared to a standard Merc, which is really saying something).

Keeps humming long after the automobile around it falls entirely apart.

My father had two of these models (actually present-tense still has one of them).

This is my “actually attainable in a normal life” fun car that I’d love to have someday. Massage whatever mechanicals to make it a bit more fun, or even just go whole hog and drop in like the 1.5 out of a Civic Si. I continue to love the look of these little guys, and al fresco motoring is a pleasure everyone should

“Posh Sebring” is just a chef’s kiss description of this automobile.

Riviera convertible, white/white/red, is the answer.

Not really for me, but it appears well-sorted and would figure to have plenty of life left in it. This one is on the simpler end without the Quattro (blessing and curse there, but ultimately I think a good thing for a car of this age). Cost of ownership should be within the reasonable range as compared to the average

1982, so it’s gotta be the Cadillac Cimarron--a heap of shit dressed up in expensive clothes that were still somehow insultingly tacky.

Why, oh WHYYYY is the Ford DreckoSport not on this list? I hate that fucking thing and all that it represents about the American auto industry to the extent that I still mutter in irritation every time I see one, almost 6 years after it first went on sale in the United States.

My truck doesn’t have an 8-foot bed, but it does a hell of a lot of towing. Exactly the kind of work I bought it for, quite capably.

What’s more, that 8-foot bed never has to be made.
You know, if it weren’t for trucks, we wouldn’t have tailgates.

The first-gen Acura Integra 4-door’s rear windows deserve mention. Instead of rolling halfway down like the typical sedan rear window of the day, they rotated a quarter turn and sat with an a-shaped peak of glass, theoretically increasing the open-air portion of the window I guess, but it looked and felt really weird.

NP with trepidation, mainly because it’s cheap. Doesn’t have a ton of miles and someone seems to have at least attempted to maintain it well.

Fun runabout. Convertibles need saving. It’s a Toyota that hasn’t crossed into 6-figure mileage yet, meaning that it’s barely broken in.

Where the fuck does Chevy get off delaying the hell out of the Silverado EV and then, oh btw we’re DOUBLING the price such that the fucking stripper model comes in at $80 large?

I know, I know, “in this market” and all that, but just short of 10 large for 125k+ miles on a fucking Neon?

Whereas the original trilogy was a gripping, compelling read, this one read to me like a rushed, half-assed cash grab, and it would appear that its film adaptation is more of the same. I won’t be ponying up 20 bucks to see this one.

The book was not good...written like fan service by an author who was super eager to shove their knowledge of canonical major philosophy down the reader’s throat.