It's pretty much a given that all other minivans are less elite than the Odyssey.

Seconded. #COTD

Let me show you your air filter here.... Now that's gonna need some changing.

Yes, but the catch is, you have to fail a spelling test to get one.

There comes a point where you don't care.

You lost me at "begs the question."

Nice. I've got a Crystal White, also with hardtop. How did you remove the A/C? I only use mine about 2 weeks a year (the A/C, not the car), and I could see doing without it altogether. Might make resale hard in Phoenix, though.

I'm figuring he's got some sentimental attachment. I know I do. I rode in the backseat of a Pulsar to/from high school in a carpool for a year.

Also fascinating was something I've never seen before: a vinyl trunk. Mazda took the American vinyl roof affectation to its utmost extreme, allowing that luxuriant vinyl to cascade all the way down onto the trunk lid. It's sort of like an automotive mullet.

There was a definite halo effect as well. My X-body Skylark was significantly more appealing to me when I drew mental lines between its humble 115 HP V6 and the famed Buick turbo sixes.

And Golf buyers are dutifully subsidizing them.

Bud looks like an Achewood character.

Buick Regal

Because fender flares were expensive.

This suggests another QOTD: What's the car model with the biggest performance & desirability span between the low-end version and the high-end version?

If you ask me, the name alone makes these worse versions.

In this case, the least-bad-terrible is still terrible, so yes, spot on.

This is unbelievable. Searching for a special Aztek among Azteks is like having to sort through your dog's poo for a week when he's swallowed something you want back. Only in this case, it's not like a wedding ring or anything, it's just some more poo that he ate.

Nope. 1991. Lightest weight, post-shortnose crank, still has 4.3 rear end.

And gray on brown. It will be getting gray on brown.
Mmmmmm.