Blake Noble

I never carried a backpack and I never used a locker. I would always use the spare textbooks in the class room and turned the ones assigned to me back in at the end of the year. As for homework in the textbook, I would either do what I could the last ten minutes of class and the first ten minutes of class the next day, copy it if I didn't feel like giving a f@#k, or just not do it at all. Honor student this.

What can I say? Sobriety helps.

I believe the "front-wheel drive is better, more fuel-efficient, and lighter" bandwagon is rolling along on two flat tires. Now, what's it gonna take to make the other two go flat? If the next-generation SRX can bring back the lighter, more dynamic rear-drive layout of the old SRX with the style and substance of the new SRX, we'd have a winner.

Your friend is a waffle.

You forgot all about Chrysler's paint. There's a Mopar out in the driveway that's only 10 years old and the clear coat is peeling like a bad sunburn.

meals

[Adjective] [noun] is [adjective]. Yes, that somehow has worked its way into my everyday vernacular.

There's one in the field behind my house. I actually feel good that it's out there in the elements, rusting away. Is that bad?

Let's counter the other thread with the Jalopnik-sourced article for a second. In your opinion, what was one of the worst cars ever built that everyone seemed to buy in droves? I'm going to have to go with the Mustang II. Yeah, this and the Pinto are some of the most successful lamentable American cars that just about everyone loves to bash. But, honestly, they deserve it. First year 'Stang IIs didn't have a V8 option and came standard with a four-cylinder engine that made an oh-so-mighty 88 horsepower. Ford had to wind up scrambling to re-engineer the Mustang II to accept the 302 V8 for next year's model and, at that point, it only made 140 tired and weary horses with a two-barrel carb. It's ironic that the man who fathered the Mustang, Lee Iaccoca, was also the same man that raped Ford's iconic American sports coupe. Iaccoca had the right idea early on in the Mustang II's development; the car was initially going to be based on the compact Maverick because it was closer in size to the original Falcon and would bring the Mustang closer to its original MO established in 1964 and address criticism from Mustang fans. But somewhere in this brainstorming session, Iaccoca apparently thought it would be best if the Mustang was brought down the ladder a few pegs and would be made over as a Toyota Celica competitor. So, in order to that, he said the car should be based on the sub-compact Pinto. This decision only had one true merit: the Mustang, for the first time in its history, would have rack-in-pinion steering versus the old recirculating-ball steering. Ford wanted to reverse the Mustang II's disgusting and crippling performance decline, so special editions started hitting the market in 1976. The Cobra II was the first of those special editions and featured the 302 option (although you could have one with a four or six-cylinder engine, perhaps if your wallet and your balls were buried deeply within your wife's purse or had jumped on the chicken-little, gas is gonna be umpteen dollars a gallon next year bandwagon) and a host of tacky, disgusting appearance mods including, but not limited to, window louvers and a tack on hood scoop. The King Cobra reared its ugly head in 1978 as a sort of half-assed answer to a real man's car, the Pontiac Trans Am, and featured a Cobra decal similar to the Trans Am's giant Phoenix decal. It, unlike the Cobra II, could only be had with the 302 V8 and if you wanted to pussy out and buy one of the smaller engines, you were simply up stinky $h!'s Creek with a big, old brown turd for a paddle. This generation of Mustang is always going be surrounded in a nasty funk. Most car collectors think of them as worthless and the car's current values reflect that. Car enthusiasts find little to love. Most of the surviving cars have either been deregulated to the crusher or to drag-race duty with heavy modifications. The King Cobra, with all of its slapped-on flair and emasculated V8, has managed to find some love, but not much more than its other Mustang II brethren. Somehow, this generation Mustang ranks high-up on the list as one of the better selling Mustangs, with four of the five years of Mustang II production in the top-ten section of that list. I have to wonder why, exactly. So now it's your turn. Bash 'way, fellas and have at it.

Lame $h! is lame.

I can't help it. It's impulse, you know.

Since going back and beating COD4 on Veteran difficulty, I've been using phrases like "filthy Russian" and "dirty A-rab" on a constant basis. When you reach the level I'm at, I'll give you the number to my therapist(?).

It's obvious that Hyundai is going for a shape like the Mercedes CLS or Passat CC, i.e. the whole "four-door coupe" trend. In the end, though, it falls short and comes across as looking like an overweight Chevy Cruize in the throws and woes of an identity crisis.

Pat Robinson

*hears a whip cracking*

I have a little more traveling to do ...

Dumbasses.

... And Justice For All

bee

Either way, I'm happy to see Michigan get a small sliver of manufacturing jobs back. That place needs it worse than Tennessee does. Not saying Tennessee doesn't need the jobs either, but Tennessee is in far less poor condition than Michigan is.

That's a damn good deal. Only 99,000 miles?

has-been

If you sugar coat them. That's how I've come to see it.

For that, sir, I award you this big bowl of failure flakes. And neither am I. I only offer insight into them based on what I've been through, when I feel like I have to share it. It doesn't extend beyond that.

Wait a second ... I believe I might have found The sNOSage's inspiration for buying the Neon. It really must be a bear to fight those Michigan winters.