I had a 2000 Mustang V6 - the car I bought in high school. I had it for 15 years and it had over 230,000 miles when I sold it. Not one major issue, only your typical repairs for a car of that age. The point is, in the case of many modern cars, it doesn’t really matter what you buy, if you take care of it like you…

It’s like living your entire life knowing only Terriers and then suddenly discovering Dachshunds. What the fu…

I was hoping she was going to use her purse to administer additional beatings.

Exactly. I can’t count the number of times someone asked me to help them find the cheapest possible lease on a car that they swear can be bare-bones and do nothing but get them to work, but when I pointed out the old $99/mo smartcar leases, they were like “...wait. Not that.”

I don’t disagree in concept but in this particular instance... people can afford cars just fine. More specifically, the people in this spot can afford cars just fine, just not the cars they want with the features they want.

It’s not even an homage. It’s just a beat-up old Nova with a 396 and a four speed. And a badly-applied sticker kit.

Immediately thought of Kid Rock’s Bawitdaba blinking those lightening rods 

Unwound a string of Christmass lights and connected it to a random step up transformer, other end of the transformer to my amp. They blinked to the bass, twas awesome but better in my room.

I forgot about those “lightning rods” I think I bought out the (then new) Wal-Mart near my hometown and put them everywhere.

I forgot about this! I cut a hole through my back seat backrest and pushed through a dual 12" Alpine’s in a band pass box. This box had an enclosed volume with a window into which I installed a white strobe. I put blue neon’s that pulse to the music in the rectangular ports on each side. It was pretty annoying…

I had blue neon string, but I just outlined the entire center console where the console met the carpeting. It plugged into the cigarette lighter. I’d like to think I exercised some restraint. The neon’s hum was annoying sometimes, though.

Who mods leased cars????

I think the worst part of this story is that you leased a Neon.

Bear with me here, but aftermarket recirculating valves for my ‘00 Audi S4. The stock units were equipped with a weak rubber diaphragm that had a tendency to tear, especially when you pushed your boost beyond stock. Predictably, a couple of tuners were quick to bring solutions to the fore. One such solution was the…

Actually he survived.

Doctor: Eddie, tell me what you see.

Agree, comrade. Capitalist pigdog car show should only review cars of people, not bourgeoisie garbage like Bugati. Do not wish to give proletariat aspirational feelings. If cannot afford, then why look? Is waste of time. Will never afford. Is only dreams and dreams for little children babies.

The answer is not always Miata, it’s Miura.

Guys c’mon the answer is a Dodge Stealth, it’s right there in the name.