[Enchante]

I dare not mock the Pinto, really... the first car I drove much, growing up in the 70s, was a little Dodge Colt made by Mitsubishi with what was practically a motorcycle engine. 82 hp for those original Dodge Colts!! If you had passengers in the car you were straining to do highway speeds.

[Riley]

the first car I drove much, growing up in the 70s, was a little Dodge Colt made by Mitsubishi with what was practically a motorcycle engine.

I had a friend who had one. He followed me over a rural road with a steep hill in it to my place one day. He was always talking about how surprisingly peppy it was to him.

I was driving a '67 Cougar. He got spanked that day. :-)

[rlmorel]

Hahaha...my dad had a Plymouth Cricket, which I think was somewhat related to the Dodge Colt...all six of us kids learned to drive in that car, and boy, did it die a slow death, like a cat that lives too long and its fur all falls out in clumps...