For $5,500 In Loonies, This Is The Car With The Walmart Tattoo
People like to accessorize themselves, a habit that goes all the
way back to humanity's formative days. Today's Nice Price or
Crack Pipe Volvo S40 is decked out like it's a Suicide Girls
pin-up, but is its price one adornment that's too much?  Wow,
two Volvos in a row, that must be some kind of record.
Yesterday's 1979 262C garnered an hearty 67% win for its price,
and praise for its not a single fuck given presentation. In
stark contrast to that customized Swede, today's candidate
trades additional cylinders for maor bling!  The S40, in its
original iteration was the result of Volvo's partnership with
Mitsubishi to develop a small FWD sedan and wagon. Sold by the
Japanese company as the Carisma - an aspirational name if there
ever was one - the cars were built at the NedCar plant in the
Netherlands, a former DAF factory.  Mitsubishi's claims aside,
neither the Carisma nor the S40 offered styling worth avoiding a
moose in, and in fact the little