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MetroMPG · 03-24-2017, 10:01 PM

Neither have I, but then again, I've rarely owned a car that didn't qualify as a "jalopy" by Click & Clack's standards:

"When lending your vehicle to someone else, if you have to explain some quirk about how to operate it, it's a jalopy!"

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