Even if the back part held together in the wind, I’m assuming until proven otherwise that it has more cowl shake than Batman in a disco. Retrofitting unibody sedans into satisfactory convertibles takes a lot of both engineering and craftsmanship. It does not, to my knowledge, traditionally involve much plywood.

The article omits an important detail to be found in the US Attorney’s Office press release. (https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdnc/pr/hendersonville-man-sentenced-prison-violating-clean-air-act-selling-thousands-illegal)

So the entire rear area is unusable? That’s dumb. Can’t open the trunk or lift the hard cover? That’s a ton of unused cargo space. ND for that alone.

I recently saw the Grand Wagoneer in person for the first time. Though doubtless a very nice place to be (well, sure! at that price it should come with a butler), being on the outside looking in was underwhelming; just the latest big bland premium SUV to emerge from some wind tunnel.

I owned a Grand Marquis for a couple years that was an old mans car

Oh, yeah, I’d bet they make more money off financing than off the actual car. (Well, except maybe the sub-stratum that sells the car to people who are so far over their head they can’t service the debt, then repos it, lather, rinse, repeat...).

How many people really need to tow 11,000 pounds AND seat 7+? Not very many.

Saw it the other night and must say that it’s one of the best examples of the people-sitting-around-talking (and, yes, mostly with their clothes on) genre that I’ve seen in some time: smartly written and acted, which includes being just funny enough whenever it needs to be. This one ought to get a well deserved second…

Homer also nods to Father Knows Best by being set in an amorphously located Springfield.

Toyota made a pretty car, and a previous owner went to a lot of trouble and expense to fix  that. Toyota uncharacteristically made a problematic transmission, and a previous owner didn’t go to any trouble and expense to fix that. No, thanks, previous owners!

The article and all but a few of the responses seem to have a curiously hard cutoff sometime in the 80s, despite the prominence of family dramas and comedies, usually with the most period-stereotypically daddy Dads, in the three decades previously...

And a tip of the hat to Picard as a sort of surrogate dad to both Sisko (briefly and in a tough-love sort of way, but it really worked out in the long run) and Riker (whose real dad was, I think, supposed to have been a piece of work), not to mention one Acting Ensign Crusher...

My knowledge, if you want to call it that, is also through secondary sources, but broadly aligned with what you write. Something questionable about their tires, or at least one tire (damage? a previous patch?) was noted by race officials, but he talked them into letting him run anyway, and the result was a tire…

Dan Conner {...} The kind of dad you don’t wanna see come in the door if you’re dating his daughter.

Painting IoT vulnerabilities as a nationalist concern in the face of an “adversarial state” accomplishes nothing. If you really want to advocate for data privacy, start with the tech companies in your backyard.

I think the fatal long-distance ejection victim was actually the driver’s wife. The driver was ejected but survived with severe injuries. I’ve read that they had five-point harnesses (it was a prepped car) but, when they crashed at an estimated 180 mph, the car came apart.

I’ve seen someone crossing a several-lanes urban freeway on a stretch with miles between overpasses, and in urban areas, seeing people walking on or alongside a freeway or its ramps near homeless encampments is a commonplace. Sometimes–often with tragic results given the likely speeds on or exiting a highway—the…

Let’s take a moment to remember an article that predicted the ascent of the Warriors into contender status and took a deep dive on their strengths and weaknesses in 2014.

Yeah, it’s a neglected 30+ year old knockabout truck on its second lap of the odometer and (despite being fairly simple) is going to need something everywhere you can point your hand. I’d tackle it at a from-failing-hands-the-torch-is-passed price (preferably in a state that is less bureaucratic about what I do under…

For that matter, the state of Washington abolished smog tests, and Oregon requires it only in the Portland and Medford/Ashland metros areas, though you would want to fix the windshield wipers.