Antti Kautonen

No, it’s GM. But I think both are ItalDesign

Isn’t a Coda a Daewoo Nubira?

I think it was a Renault Fluence taxi cab in Amsterdam.

Good looking base spec Saab, looking like it’s spent years indoors.

I only ever visited Russia in '99 or '00, cannot be 100% sure of the year. In any case, we took a VW T3 bus to Karelia and visited the villages where some of our roots are. I mainly remember the overwhelming crappiness, from which Estonia has survived beautifully but which has gotten worse in Russia

Also,

I-Pace: Internal Combustion
E-Pace: Electric

GS: Manual
GSA: Automatic

I will not be taking questions

Every time I see a GSA from this angle I think "Huh, someone put a big hatch on the CX"

New Micra spotted. Totally not a Renault 5

Thing is, this isn't a Colt, but a Galant! The UK importer (Colt Car Company) relied on the Colt brand so heavily they didn't use the Mitsubishi name on the cars for the first ten years, but called everything a Colt from the Sigma to the Sapporo. The actual Colt was just the Colt 1400.

1974 Mitsubishi Colt Galant 2000 GLII - Ex Mitsubishi Heritage for sale by auction in Nottingham, United Kingdom

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Ex heritage fleet Galant. Isn’t this from the era when it was sold under the Colt badge, instead of Mitsubishi, hence ”Colt Galant”?

… Buying which ones?

Been some good ones lately

Now they need Kevorkian

Our Stellantis EV has been relatively trouble free but I also recognize that our use case is probably one of the best applications for it. I wouldn’t need to change my routines that much and head scratching could easily begin.

I’ve been wondering with the Corolla, whether I should subject a 25 year old reasonably nice and reasonably rare car (in 4WD guise) to daily year round wear and tear and road salt, especially since my new job requires me to drive more. But I’ve cooked up a solution to that already.

Luckily I got that covered

I often think cars are too good for our roads and conditions. Then again, sitting in wet grass does them no good either.

Future classic.

But I also can’t remember when I’ve last gone for a drive for the heck of it, even in my petrol cars. Driving is so expensive I always need a reason to go somewhere.

Absolutely, the ”gamification” of EV driving comes from trying to hypermile the things. I don’t think my e-2008 is bad to drive, far from it, but driving the Hyundais was mostly about trying to make my commute with as low consumption as possible.

Block/cabin heater plug for wintertime preheating.

Never seen a CL C215 with manhole covers.

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

Picture of a faded orange car with "Matra Simca" written on the front. It has yellow fog lights and a chunky front bumper

@julkinen.bsky.social told me #weirdcarbs would enjoy this:

How was it on a day to day basis? I wonder how they are as a used buy now with presumably not a lot of parts support.

Really clean, low-km Chevrolet Volt at a dealer today.

Sadly I couldn’t take it to a test drive as the 12v battery wasn’t in good enough shape to start it. Later it also turned out that the cabin fan doesn’t work. Windshield is also cracked.

I’m unlikely to bid on this car (705 eur now), but with good tires and service records it was otherwise fine.

Been with the same family since new, this 320tkm 2008 Passat is a 1.9 TDI LuxLine, meaning it has the 105PS turbodiesel and decent spec.

Some of the door corners were rusty, as well as a scraped wheelarch, but it also had peeling clearcoat in places.

Hey, fans of Rostiga Passat B6/B7! I went to see a good example today. Nice bubbling going on with the doors and hatch.