In my years as a union steward I find that in addition to busting unions,  “we can’t fire that slacker because of the union” is a ploy used by slacker management to not have to do their job following those documentation rules.

The Tremor 2 door with an 8ft box would be a great camping/overlanding rig. bummer it is only 4 door. 

This is the easiest Miata is the right answer in a while.  

I would recommend not even using just literature but actually find and educated expert that has been doing it for years and is an expert not just crazy and crazy lucky uncle whatzet. 

I drove both manual and automatic versions of early 80s ford escorts and the automatic was vastly slower than the manual. Around 2.5 sec difference in 0-60 times.

yes and I did a better job of that with a manual than some crap 3 speed auto.

Tossing up our hands and saying both sides are bad is not a way to make things better. What pro worker system would be 100% perfect every time? 

Manuals you could at least have more than 3 gears and try to accelerate buy revving the hell out of the tiny hamster motor. 

Not a reason to get rid of unions completely.

So again you are giving ALL the power to the employer and make all individual employees alone and powerless. Why do you hate workers trying to improve working conditions as a group? 

If workers cannot ask for, in a collective manner, better working conditions and higher wages (even if they do not get them) then they are not workers they are more akin to slaves.

Bad cars made worse with bad transmissions. 

ALL the 80's econoboxes with automatic transmissions??

for sure I was always a fan, my wife really wanted a colt vista wagon and her brother had a stanza wagon with the jump seat in the way back. 

There is a big difference between a suv/truck that can actually off road and a crossover that is a tall hatchback with plastic cladding. I have seen crossover at the off road park or deep onto trails and it never works out well. 

I would add the colt vista and nissan stanza wagon and corolla all-trac as crossovers before their time.

I do not like the cargo capacity killing slopped back ends of crossovers. 

Raising a kid, we got use to the 5ish dinner time. We were in Italy adjusted as we found restaurants did not even open for dinner until around 7-8 so we just bought snacks to tide us over until dinner.   

If my recent experiences with rental cars is any indication there may not have been any human anywhere near the car when they got to the car. It has been years since there was a warm body near my rental car when I got to it in the garage.

Right I am a car fan and I struggled one night getting the dash lights up in the white (of course) nissan rogue rental car in the dark driving from orlando to cocoa beach. No good place to pull over. I now try to aim to park in the cell phone lots of airports to make sure i can work the car and get my google maps up…