The Day I Learned Not To Trust Jay Leno Car Reviews

[EmersonHart13]

I totally understand what you are saying, but I’m opposite I can’t passed that cavalier exterior. I usually buy a car cause of its looks first. I had a guy begging me to buy a Pontiac G8 with firehawk front bumper and I couldn’t get passed the price and too many miles for my taste for the price. The interior felt so outdated like a 4th gen. Again that’s my opinion. I guess if u really think about it all Pontiacs are ancient.

I get it, everyone has different tastes. Until I get a house where I can park a car in the living room I see more of the interior than the exterior so I will always put that first.

#longlivethecavalier

 

[DEEZUZ]

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Imagine what it costs and the labor involved in just keeping registration and insurance current on all those cars. Hell, just having a system of keeping the keys organized must be crazy. Plus Jay seems to have binders with all the documentation pertaining to the car and a “cheat sheet” of major points of each car that he keeps in the glovebox.

Cheat sheet? Like this guy doesn’t know everything about every car he owns?

 

[The Beast]

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They both are nice cars for what they were

 

[CMNTMXR57]

They’re plain interiors, but I don’t think they’re particularly “bad” or out of line for anything from a domestic car manufacturer in the late 90’s lol

Agreed. It wasn't world class luxury by any means, but wasn't bad either. I just refer to it as little tikes because of the quality of the plastics and ease with which they came apart.

Otherwise, it was actually pretty nice. I always thought the seats were actually pretty comfy, and the gauges I thought were very well designed.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

They both are nice cars for what they were

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Thank you for posting the bestest GTO color.

 

[The Beast]

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[Yaj Yak]

In IL he could just get fleet plates having that many vehicles. Makes it way easier lol

do you know fleet plate requirements?

 

[Outlaw]

do you know fleet plate requirements?

I believe it’s like 100 vehicles or something. It’s significant for sure.

 

[Mr_Roboto]

Pretty sure his early 1900s steamers are straight garbage compared to anything modern too. That’s not the point. Smh

He’s a true enthusiast.

My take is that they're his children in some way and that no mom ever called their babies ugly.

I also think he perceives cars as within the time window they come from and in this case also from the heritage of which they came. Although I could argue the interior of a car like my Lemans is a better one, I would argue the later stuff wasn't that great (say the second gen fbody to the end of the fbody.) I don't know about Mustangs of the era but my god the Ford I owned from the mid 90s (a Contour) was god awful interior wise. I mean I've seen milk jugs that were better plastic.

It could also be the condition of the vehicle its self. How many people here have had new f-bodies that were well cared for, lower mileage and fairly gently driven vs how many people here had f-bodies that were ridden very hard and put away wet? I'm betting a lot more of the latter than the former.

Although he has a ton of exotics too, I also don't think he's lost touch with the blue collar aspects of hot rodding and being a car guy either. If that's the case I think there's a lot of appreciation for the fourth gen because it was a car in the common man's reach that offered a fun driving experience and good performance at the time. Looking at a base 2002 vette online they started at $41K, or a bit under 25% more than this loaded WS6.

 

[Great White Drake]

Agreed. It wasn't world class luxury by any means, but wasn't bad either. I just refer to it as little tikes because of the quality of the plastics and ease with which they came apart.

Bingo. I’ve owned 2 or 3 third gens (don’t remember lol) but have been in tons of 4th gens. It’s clipped together shit. I’ve also owned a 92 park avenue that shit on an f body interior made 10 years later.

GM knew how to make a marginally better interior and didn’t. Because they were too busy putting the effort into a WORLD CHANGING motor.

 

[v6buicks]

GM quality was absolute garbage in this era. F-bodies are trash. I wish I harvested my drivetrain and put it in an Opel GT like I always intended. Too late now.