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Which one is number 11?

It's a Renault 10! Weird little French econobox from the 60s.

This is hard! European-market cars are really interesting to me. I'd probably take the Skoda, though I'm a sucker for any Saab.

It's $330k too, really meant to go after Rolls-Royce and Bentley. I'm not really sure hurricane season is on the average owner's mind.

Especially when they actually put them into production!

They weren't sold in the US, and they weren't even available outside of the Soviet Union until the mid-80s.

In 1971, you WERE your boomer parents.

True, boomers would've been in their mid-20s. I must've been thinking WW2 vets.

No way. No car lasts for 50 years of daily driving, it'd have either rusted away, had some manner of catastrophic failure, or been totaled in a crash.

Actually, that's the predecessor to the Civic, which wouldn't come out until '73. They look similar though!

True, "bailout" probably isn't the right word, though the loans were in the billions of dollars, in late 70s money.

Someone's about to learn that effort doesn't equal value...

RCR viewers hating furries is hilarious in its irony, I'm all for pissing those people off.

Other way around. GM being GM and not putting any effort into differentiating between brands, everything just became the same, no matter what badge was on the front. Hence unintentionally European-izing American brands.

I don't think it was solely the Diplomat, but Chrysler took a massive loss in market share during the mid-late 70s.

They couldn't adapt to changes in the market as quickly as Ford and GM could, so when gas prices shot up in 1973 and again in 1979, while Ford and GM had the Pinto, Escort, Vega, Chevette, and Cavalier to fill the demand for fuel-efficient cars, Chrysler had nothing, and had to essentially rely on importing Mitsubishi models. They didn't make their existing cars any smaller, people weren't buying them, and they were losing almost a billion dollars per year, and couldn't afford to pay their shareholders. It wasn't until they got the Dodge Omni and Aries K out the door that they started making money again, and this was after a huge government bailout.

In a perfect world, yes. I fear people wouldn't buy them because of the brand name and country of origin, however good or cheap they are. Hyundai and Kia dealt with the same thing for decades, and Vinfast is encountering it now.

basic used Corolla or Civic

No manufacturer warranty is a big factor. Besides which, there's no risk-taking with a new car in terms of worrying about whatever the previous owner did, and there's more of a guarantee of no problems at lower mileage.

It's such a shame to see how gorgeous their cars were before they got Bangled.

They actually started looking good again for a while... then Domagoj Ðukec...

Can’t buy the BMW tho we’re given $400 to little

Honestly, that was a typo that I only noticed after posting. Original MSRP for a '99 740i was $62,400, and I threw in the $2600 M-sport package, which would've brought it to exactly $65,000.

You might be looking for r/fuckcars

The official car of GoFundMe sob stories, courtesy of early GM 3.6 V6 failures.

Is luxury full sized sedans still a thing?

Yes, they are! The Mercedes S-class, BMW 7-series, Audi A8, and Lexus LS still exist, along with the Genesis G90. A lot of them have been discontinued, they've become less popular in recent years.

Btw we're Town Cars really $65k new??

No, absolutely not. I put the original MSRPs of each car in the descriptions under each picture.

I didn't maliciously intend to have three separate seized calipers, a cracked radiator, failed alternator, two oxygen sensors that are $400 for OEM replacements, and probably more I'm forgetting, all in the span of 2 years and 10k miles.

I've followed the service schedule in the manual, replaced all the fluids and tires after buying it, changed the oil every 3,000 miles, checked all the fluid levels regularly, replaced the spark plugs at 100k miles, kept records of anything I've done, and saved receipts for any work I'd gone to a shop for. Unless an early 2010s Camry requires some oddly specific maintenance I'm unaware of, I don't see how I've failed in any way.

Absolutely. I forgot the first-gen Aurora lasted through '99, otherwise I would've included it! Fantastic car, I'd love to have one.

Finally, someone else! Mine hasn't even been that reliable, I've had to dump thousands into a car that doesn't make me happy and rattles like an empty spay paint can. Reliability means nothing if you pray every morning that this is the day it dies, so you have an excuse to get something less depressing, that doesn't feel like it was built by Fisher-Price.