In college I had gotten into the classic summer car/winter beater cycle and the end of August came around and I had to buy a new beater. I managed to find a 92 Crown Vic for cheap. I knew it had a rusty oil pan that was a common problem on these cars and that it was leaking A LOT of oil.

The bay was clogged full of…

I went to watch One Lap America at Road America in WI. one year and out of a field of probably 40 cars including some high end shit like Ferraris the car that was in 3rd place was a normal unassuming C5 Z06. The reason was the guy was driving it to the ragged edge and pushing it harder then anyone else on the track. …

Obviously if there’s a will there’s a way and if you put good enough snow tires on a car and drive with appropriate caution for conditions and give yourself time to gain traction from a stop and enough braking distance you can probably drive anything in the winter but is there something about these that makes them…

The Explorer is now a Unibody chassis shared with the Flex (til that’s gone) and the Taurus though. It leaves an opening for a beefier Body on Frame SUV that will have more off-road chops. I think they will definitely give it some “muscular” styling and market it as a more off-road capable SUV, I just don’t think…

LOL, I’m glad to know that my Dad isn’t the only one that’s borderline insane about stuff like that. Someone should tell those people there’s this magic stuff called Quick Detailer in a convenient spray bottle that takes 2 seconds to use if you really care that much about finger prints!

The only time I would ever…

Agreed. It’s not even like that mustang was that valuable either. Yes it was restored and it was nice, but it’s not a rare car. I would have drove the hell out of it if I had owned it. So what if you get a few rock chips on the paint?

I have a worse story for a 68 Mustang. My Dad’s cousin had a GORGEOUS candy apple red 68 fastback with a 390.

It stalled on the train tracks and he couldn’t get it going again and it got hit by the train. :(

We went to look at it for parts. The interior was still good and so was the motor really. Front end was…

Scary shit man! Glad you found help in time!

Mine wasn’t fun like the OP’s situation but it could have damn near saved my life.

I was over 2.5 hrs. into a 4 hr drive to a car show in my VW. I had swapped on wheels from a grossly different lug pattern car that required wheel adapters. These weren’t ridiculously thick, and the adaptors came from a reputable…

Ugh, sad that I missed this one.

How about, THE DEALERSHIP you wanted to trade your POS car in at?

I dearly loved and still to some extent miss the 02 Jetta wagon with a VR6 and a manual trans that I used to own, but it took a very abrupt turn for the worse at about 183,000 miles. In the course of a month and a half…

This is exactly what I think is going to happen with the Bronco in reality. We aren’t getting a 2 door removable roof version that looks anything like the concept cars or the fantasy renderings of what everyone wants the Bronco to be. It’s going to be an American version of the 4 DOOR Everest that’s already being…

I think Demuro’s Ferrari saga illustrates the downside of exotic car ownership well though. An exotic car is a constant attention magnet that gets revved at, distracts other drivers, and prompted everyone to take point a cell phone camera at whether they were walking or driving. It also needs expensive, specialized…

The commentary is fucking golden! LOL

I think some people find keeping it “perfect” such a prevailing concern that they forget to actually enjoy their car. Especially if it has a preceived value to them.

My Dad is a perfect example. When I was 12 or 13 he picked up a 67 Mustang convertible to restore. It was generally solid, but it needed rust repair…

That’s awesome, definitely the kind of thing we should aspire to as car enthusiasts.

Nobody cares about your excessive capitalization or lack of punctuation either Brah.

There are certainly some very successful trucks that DID sell on that list, but I don’t think the same success would be duplicated from a new launch TODAY. Even most Jeep buyers are going for the 4 door version now because they realize that a 2 door isn’t really practical anymore. Americans are obsessed with the idea…

Ugh, can we please just STOP talking about this or the other fantasy rendering being anywhere remotely close to what’s going to be built?

The platform the Bronco is derived from is the EVEREST which is a 4 door SUV.
The reality is we’re not going to get a 2 door, short wheelbase, removable roof Bronco that looks…

I hope that’s the very first thing that goes from the “concept features” Put some real god damn headlights on this and make them ROUND like they are supposed to be.