Very good point! There used to be a site that archived these listings, but it appears to have gone dark. I saved a copy of the ad and linked it at the end of the post.

Heh, I appreciate that you reached out and got the full story from one of the folks involved. Good stuff.

Yep, I have neighbors like this. He’s a tax accountant. Buys a new one for him every five years, a new one for the wife in between the five years. Hands them down to their kids. Been going on like that since the 80s. Never seen offroad, but need a trusty 4x4 to get up the driveway and to their cabin in the winter.

Lancia Zagato Targa Convertible or GTFO!

Mitsubishi has become the Dollar General of cars. 

I see everyone wants to comment on my Not Very Thorough ™ cleaning company. At NVT™, we aim to make it feel like you detailed your car about a month ago. Our technicians sprinkle just the right blend of potting soil and beach sand into your floor mats. A specialist dusts your dashboard with a mixture of all purpose…

Might wanna learn your Group B history cause only one of those is a Gr B car (well two if you count the wildly different Delta from the 90s).

Ah yes, the Mitch McConnell origin story.

Good point, as AWD vehicles use power transfer units. VW and Deutsche Auto Parts both describe the VAG unit as a transfer case, so I used their terminology.

Just dropping the Lancer Evo in here. Homologation and Group-A is what made so many of the ‘90s JDM cars so great.

Can’t forget the Sierra Cosworth

Electrons are blue! Well kind of, you can do a reduction with sodium metal in liquid ammonia. It can be thought of as a “solution of free electrons” and it turns a very pleasing blue color.

The release does mention that it gets 50 MPGe — that looks better than the range figure of 25 miles I had to dig for.

Blue is the color of lightning in paintings and pictures

everybody come listen to this person. 100% correct is not our style. 

Note to those who have a “fill until it starts to drain” style transmissions -

ATF in a manny? YOU’RE INSANE, MAN!

We will neither confirm nor deny doing such a thing before we had access to a garage.

So you’re saying you shouldn’t do it the the campus police department’s parking lot on a weekend, without a catch pan, but with only an empty windshield washer fluid bottle, which fails to catch more than a few ounces, then quickly drive off when you’re done, leaving a giant red patch of ATF in the packed snow that…

They also did this, A V8 with a wagon body.