“tired of industry players who try to use a safety argument to stop innovation.” {...} But it is how do they react under extreme pressure that leaves a lot of research.

The real question is, does anyone collect these? If they do, they’ll never find a better one. I’m not sure if anybody does, though, and I’m not dropping that kind of coin to sit on it for another quarter century to see if that changes. Even at this “reduced” price (per the ad) it seems likely to underperform other…

Yeah, if I were going to stack the bills up that high for a slow-car-fast sedan from 40 years ago, this might be the one.  ND for the right person.  

A study in Car Design is Hard. They were undoubtedly trying for early Toronado (front) and Riviera (rear), but the proportions just didn’t scale down. At the other end, they may have been aiming for a Knudsen nose with that grille, but it left me thinking Panther-era Lincoln.  But if you want one (we don’t judge)…

It happens, sort of like Sterno drinking 2.0, despite the bitterant usually added to hand sanitizer to dissuade people from doing this. I guess a rock bottom street alcoholic will drink whatever is available, and at 140 proof (70% alcohol is usually considered the ante for effective coronacide), it is probably as…

Sometimes the good guys win one.

It had me with the clever (and, given the state of play at the time, probably pretty expensive) visuals of the opening sequence — ever notice that the asteroids have independent motions? now that’s sweating the details!) and of course one of the all-time-great instrumental themes. And having John Lithgow play the fool…

Imagine the first owner being maybe a third of the way through the payment coupon book as of the 1979 oil shock..

The Jeep Grand Wagoneer had a power tailgate window to the very end in ‘91, and owners get to learn about its mostly electrical Achilles heels and considerable complexity. (Older and lower-trim variants had a hand crank for the rear window.).

The maintenance laundry list mentions that the timing belt was replaced. Combined with what seems vaguely like the English-as-a-second-language tone of the ad, I am thinking sad thoughts about what a bill of goods the owner has been sold by various mechanics.

Or the commander of an undercover alien mission to Earth. (But if you go far enough up the org chart it still all comes down to William Shatner.)

So what does the headline writer mean by taking airliners out of the jet age? I had my mouth all set for Return of the Living Unducted Fan or somesuch, or maybe rockets—they promised us rockets! Atomic rockets!—but it looks like two jet nacelles, only in an odd place...

Adult swimming lessons (including adaptive ones for the handicapped, if that’s an issue) are available and can add a whole new dimension to enjoying being out on the water. But good on you for wearing a PFD anyway. Even the people in these videos who happen to be strong swimmers might be at a bit of a disadvantage if…

keep an eye on conditions, it may not be a good time to make the passage.

An interesting sidebar to this story would be the precautions the cops used (if any) to pick up and transport a treatment-refusing active TB patient...

> What’s the old car restoration joke? The last 10% is 90% of the work?

I’m wondering if that was as far as the authority of the court extended, for some reason having to do with the grounds on which she was detained.

True, but let’s also keep in mind that, as mentioned in the article, budgetary requests and budgetary authorizations, once the pie actually gets sliced, are not the same thing... and even if you get what you asked for, the inflation rate, currently at 4.9%, is going to erode their actual value.

90 semi trucks seems like a huge waste of fuel.

Ah. You’re right; I had the timeline of the original and the recut resleases backward. So, a prestige drama flop, not fitting the summer blockbuster flop theme of this list.