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Cars: 1982 Oldsmobile Cutlass
1994 Buick Roadmaster
2010 Ford Flex TT-3.5 AWD
2005 Mustang GT
2003 Crown Vic P71
1982 Olds Cutlass, "La boite de merde"
The Engine well it has one. Ah, the 231 Buick V6. Designed in the 60's, then dumped by GM onto AMC(as the 225 Dauntless), like that one fruitcake at Christmas, you know the one, doesn't taste great, doesn't look great, but you're not going to use it so you might as well gift it to someone. And then come back in a few weeks asking to have it back. GM got the engine back in the 70's when they realized that POWEERRRR was not the world's concern anymore. They threw in this beast, gave it some "fanciness" like an electronically controlled carburetor(which is crap), and then sold it to the inevitably large numbers of old lady's and college students that bought these cars.
Transmission 3-speed slushbox, what more do you want to know?
The only joy in this joyless car: it has bucket seats and a floor shifter, and the roof comes off(sort of)
Thanks for reading this self-and vehicle-deprecating rant about the slow mystery that is, "La boite de Merde"