It takes something really special about a 21st-century junkyard car to make me willing to include it in this series. The ’04 Pontiac Sunfire we saw recently was the last of the GM J Bodies, which gave it historical significance. The Chrysler “cloud cars” mostly just serve as crusher fodder… but this one is so amazingly horrible that I had no choice but to photograph it. (Read More…)
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Remember the Daewoo Nubira? No? Did you know that there was a wagon version? Even though production of the Nubira stopped just ten years ago, this car has all but disappeared from our consciousness. (Read More…)

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RobertRyan - No it does not. but Ford Australia had a lot to do with it’s development.
mkirk - Don’t go bashing Tempos around here…they have a following rivaled only by the Panther and the Brown Diesel Wagon cults. The Contour SVT was the true...
mkirk - Does Australia get the global Ranger based SUV? I think it is called the Everest or something. I used to see them around Kandahar. Not as refined a vehicle I...
Crabspirits - I’m kind of an “old wrench” on the early import stuff. I got into it around 93′ in Japan. A lot of the cars we...
Hummer - Let me restate that first one, For the US it is no longer the chief exporter.
mkirk - The GM Atlas six was by all accounts a great motor saddled with a mediocre vehicle to pull around. I thought there were issues with inline sixes and emissions due...
Hummer - Your a lil out of date, the middle east is no longer the biggest exporter of oil. I’d rather waste 5 minutes at a gas station then 2 hours or w/e at...
indi500fan - OK it’s a science project. Now I understand. Somehow I has the mistaken impression this was a production car. I’ll spend my 100,000 Euros...
McGilligan - Not to nitpick, but 10 figures is a billion, not trillion. Still a massive investment in efficiency, but not quite as ridiculous. Does anybody know the...
mkirk - I thought the later Explorers were on thier own chassis (as opposed to the earlier Ranger based ones).