Edit: Damn it all, Nibbles ruined my post. Carry on.
Maybe I didn't read closely enough, but I didn't see anything about the transmission your lowest-common-denominator fail-safe car share special has.
If they insult you for preferring not to drive a manual in day to day driving.
My '85 6000 STE doesn't have a low fuel warning as far as I know. It has a digital fuel gauge that shows about 16 or 20 or so green bars on full. One morning I was commuting to college and it displayed 5 bars when I started the car. That quickly dropped to three after I pulled out of my sloped driveway. Three is the…
1933 Rolls-Royce woodie. I saw this car at the 2009 San Diego International Auto Show (my pictures didn't come out well, luckily someone on Flickr took a better shot at a different event). Allegedly the owner got tired of maintaining the original powertrain and swapped it out, the original is still in their…
That's what I was going to say. Hard to beat a cop's personal vehicle for subtlety. Except in the movies, where they drive green Mustang fastbacks or custom black Monte Carlos or giant GMC duallies.
They're very 1970s Olds Cutlass, which was the best selling car in the US during that era. Hipsters like irony, right? But they might not like that it's been done before to great success with their parents.
I had something happen that involved a similar cast of automotive characters but a different setup and place. This was about 3 years ago. I was driving my grandmother home to Oakland in her 2002 Prius on I-80 traveling through Berkeley, I think we were approaching the Ashby Ave exit in the left lane. At rush hour (or…
Hitting a pedestrian or motorcyclist, especially while driving at night.
I had a friend in high school who owned a copy of Corvette Monopoly which came with a '53 roadster, '63 Split-Window, '68 L88 convertible, '90 ZR-1, and '98 C5 convertible. Johnny Lightning also did a Monopoly series of 1/64 diecasts years ago that came with game tokens that matched the car you bought. I have a 3rd…