Guilty Pleasures
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After honoring a Chrysler-badged Mitsubishi in last week's Guilty Pleasure feature, I decided it was time to go back to Japan for real, with a genuine Mitsubishi-branded product. Strange how some cars never make much of an impression, though they lingered in the marketplace for quite a while; the Mitsubishi Diamante is such a car. We've all heard of the Diamante, of course, but do you notice them on the street? I have a vague recollection of some early-to-mid-90s gangster rapper— was it Ice Cube?— bragging about the Diamantes rollin' on the ave, but other than that I can't think...
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Guilty Pleasure: Plymouth Fire ArrowI really wanted to go back to Japan for this week's Guilty Pleasure, preferably a Mitsubishi product (say, the Diamante station wagon). After the Simca-derived Plymouth Turismo Duster last week, I couldn't resist going with another Chrysler captive import for our Japanese excursion. What do you get...
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Guilty Pleasure: Plymouth Turismo Duster
Welcome back to Guilty Pleasures, the weekly homage to vehicles that we shouldn't want, yet can't resist. Last week, we admired an 80s Chrysler product that was, really, a holdover from earlier decades; today we're going to mainline some pure, un-stepped-on 1980s with a Chrysler product that had...
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Guilty Pleasure: 1981-83 Imperial
After I watched last week's Guilty Pleasure car nearly take the win on laps at the Real Hoopties of New Jersey 24 Hours of LeMons (coming in second to a BMW E30 only because of black flags, not any weakness in the Milano), I thought about going with another underestimated and undervalued sporty car...
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Guilty Pleasure: Alfa Romeo Milano
Welcome back to Guilty Pleasures, the weekly column lauding somewhat embarrassing cars that we shouldn't want... but secretly can't resist. We visited Japan and Detroit for the first two episodes, and now it's Italy's turn. We're going to travel back to the 1980s for this one, to revisit a...
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Guilty Pleasure: Buick Reatta
Welcome back to the Guilty Pleasures series, a weekly journey into the land of cars we shouldn't, yet do want. The ideal Guilty Pleasure car sold for a bundle when new, failed miserably in the showrooms, and only gets discussed later— if it is remembered at all— in semi-mocking tones...
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Greetings, Motor Authority readers! Murilee Martin is in the house, in order to share the joy that comes with the Murilee Martin Lifestyle Brand™ with each and every one of you. Now, before you can step up to such fine MMLB™ products as the Fission Ready Neptunium-237 Billet Wheels (available for any bolt pattern, provided it's a Renault three-lugger) or the Triangular Purple Drank cup holder insert (fits triangular cough-syrup bottles and keeps that cup-o-lean from dumping all over your metalflake Naugahyde interior), you need to slide behind the wheel of a car that's inherently...
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Murilee Martin Joins Forces With MotorAuthority
Justice of the Court at the 24 Hours of Lemons, progenitor of more than a few car-spotting and project columns (including a handful of copycats), gentleman Manta-pusher, and lifestyle brand-builder Murilee Martin has joined the rolls here at MotorAuthority. Join us in wishing him a warm welcome!...
Nelson Ireson
