If being cited as a girlhood inspiration by at least one (I think it was more than one but would have to do some research to confirm that) actual woman astronaut doesn’t make Uhura a shoo-in for this list, I don’t know what would.

If we’re talking about a model rather than a particular individual car, this is the full-stop, mic-drop correct answer, for the reasons you and others have stated.

Back when these had been out just a few years, one of the car magazines put the donut spare on some of their road test cars and found the new space saving tire surprisingly competent, though unsurprisingly that was the corner that stepped out first on the skidpad.

But all involved seemed to grasp that the joys of Frasier came in taking a man who considered himself the urbane, composed master of the universe, and then slamming him, full-force, into characters with no interest in taking his shit.

From the look of the trailer, it seems like they’re going back to square one with the character and are just making him an insufferable elitist who lacks empathy again. I hope they’re picking up from where they left off and the trailer is just misleading us.

I looked at the price and mileage, heaved a sigh about the present state of the market, and pressed NP. It seems decently kept, and with a used car you’re buying not only the inherent qualities of the machine but also the driving and maintenance habits of the previous owners...

A well kept original ‘73 Monte Carlo could come live with me and be my car. I’d take this... creation for free only as a parts car for that or one of its GM stablemates... and only if I had a place to store it where nobody would have to look at it.

Lucky for him, too. If he’d been up against a real hard case (they’re out there) at close quarters, pulled a gun, and dropped it, he might not have lived to pick it up.

The boss is probably already 100% done with his shit prior to this happening.

Focusing on a luxury car when your goal is to save money for something else indicates that the compartmentalized mind is a thing of many marvels. But if you’re determined to do this and the car is meant to be a keeper (which causes the proposition to make more sense), Lexus stands out remarkably among these…

They came to see our country and its people, and sad to say, they got a good look at one of its recently prominent aspects.

I’ve always found the term “dognapping” a bit too cute for this crime, a violent armed robbery that saw the dog-walker shot in the chest, whereupon he had to go through several hospitalizations.

Two way tie for me:

I think the car is an overpriced (despite the low mileage) and technically risky value proposition, and the seller is potentially a pill to deal with, all of which are topics well discussed by others. Just here to say the industry needs to get back to this level of clean and graceful understatement in both exteriors…

So important was this economic juggernaut that it was once espoused here in the States that “what is good for GM is good for America.”

Yeah, it’s a fair bet that, for example, the driver of a NASA-emblem-era Dodge Dart is —pick one or more—under 30, has substantial ink and maybe gauge piercings, can tell you where all the knock-your-socks-off food trucks and microbrews can be found, and uses the term “analog” to summarize what is so great about the…

Ate Up With Motor remarks on the character of the engine in a superb deep dive that places this car in historical context and describes it as a “magnificent kludge.”

It isn’t just leather and wood. It’s flawless leather of one of the better kinds, and “only God can make a tree, and He made this one on a good day” wood.

I prefer sleeker trims of Bustleback, myself, but leaning all the way in to early 80s Cadillac excess kinda suits it. The car depicted needs whitewalls, though, unless you think that’d be too matchy-matchy with the shoes and belt.  

I tend to prefer the Bentley version of almost anything, and never more so than here. Their tendency toward being the more introverted sibling especially suits this car.