Some of this is just driver ignorance of their car’s settings and their effect. But some of it is, I think, a cultural element in the US these days of deliberate, ostentatious inconsiderateness toward others.

One does not simply walk into Mordor. One drives there in a van with wizards and dragons airbrushed onto it.

It’s a thing of beauty, but my desire is tempered by... well, the speculator price, vis-a-vis other things I could have for that amount of money, and also the realization that practically anything I did to enjoy it would reduce its value. The car’s highest destiny is probably a trip in an enclosed trailer back to…

A couple more candidates:

Or Ivanova/Marcus if you like ‘em unrequited...

If it’s as good as the pictures and description (given the location I assume it’s been a three-season car unexposed to rust), this is a good price for a convertible, though they aren’t exactly giving it away either.

I did... but the car was owned by a friend whose driving and maintenance habits I approved of, and in fact I was riding shotgun during the accident that totaled it. I knew the accident to be minor* and was willing to roll the dice on whether the damage was relevant to the safety, reliability, and longevity of the car.…

A little later, in New Mexico: “Cause of rock slide solved when driver checks Google Maps, New Mexico officials say”

It never jumped out at me as it does for you, but this car is smack in the middle of the years when Ford owned Jaguar, so I wouldn’t be surprised at any bidirectional DNA swapping in both design and mechanical bits (e.g., I think that those Birds, like some contemporary Lincolns, had a slightly shorter-stroke variant …

Pretium non talis.

Well, who know with aircraft financing, ever. But they seem to be sensibly scrapping the oldest ones first—perhaps as they come up on some major maintenance. Emirates, for instance, sent A6-EDA to the scrappers with 49,632 hours in the logbook across its 14 years of operation. (https://simpleflying.com/emirates-airbus…

“Biding their time” is a good way to put it. This question keeps coming up, and it ignores how EV-adjacent they already are.  They practically defined hybrids; they have a hydrogen fuel cell sedan; they will be able to Godzilla-stomp their way through the EV market if they decide it’s what customers want.

That is an actual, good looking car as opposed to the unique oddity of today’s ND.

“I always wanted to wreck a ‘50 Studie!”

the “Ultimate Tanning Machine”

Addendum:  According to several write-ups by people who paid closer attention than me, Red had also been in WW2. Navy both times. (https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2023/01/18/red-forman-cantankerous-navy-vet-of-that-70s-show-is-back-dumbass/

“It reminds me of that time I shot at the North Korean and didn’t miss”...

I was thinking of Sahara the Brooke Shields vehicle, that is, not the other films with the same title, including the much later (and similarly panned) adaptation of a Clive Cussler story, starring Matthew McConaghey and Penelope Cruz. The poster is getting Kinjaaaa!’ed, but here are the respective memories:

56% on Rotten Tomatoes, easy ND on Jalopnik.

John McPhee, in “Brigade de Cuisine,” would beg to differ. I’ve had some burgers in my day (though nothing quite that grade) that could be fairly described as elevated—the handiwork of a chef who cared about ingredients and preparation. I wouldn’t expect to find them in a casual-dining franchise, nor at their typical…