Hope the picture works this time...

The Chrysler ME Four-Twelve. Shame Mercedes stepped on it.

I agree the discussion needs to branch out a little.

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The thing I hate about carpool lanes is that usually in my experience there's no way to go between it and the other lane. The last time I was in a car that took one, we got stuck behind a beige Buick with blue hair poking above the passenger seat and no visible driver, doing 15 under the speed limit. There was some…

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I've been stranded on Amtrak trains sitting there not moving before- not because of downed trees, though. It's because the freight operators own the tracks, and give priority to freight over passengers.

Two legs good, no legs bad?

I think condemned criminals in Utah were at one point (in the 19th century) allowed to choose beheading as the method of execution, though none of them ever did.

Cars in the family, in descending order of Jalopitude:

Not to mention small and easy to package- and neither of them need to convert back-and-forth into rotary motion...

No, Ye means you. "The" was never pronounced "ye", it's just that it used to be spelled with the extinct letter thorn which looked sort of like a y.

That's odd- the story I read about the German case said that the boy was Muslim, though this will obviously also affect Jews.

First Streets are often called Main Street.

Certainly in Britain unmarked police bikes are very easy to spot- a lot easier than the cars- because police motorcyclists ride in a very specific way. Not sure if this is true in the US, but I suspect it might be more true as someone used to riding a Harley-Davidson every day might stick out a bit on a sportbike.

Of course, Smarts have removable/replaceable body panels so you can take it off.

I'd actually kind of like it if the radio turned itself down while I was looking for stations. Not off, but down to just loud enough that I can tell what I've found.

Well, why are you buying your kid a new car then? I don't think many teenage drivers earn enough to buy a new car, so presumably if someone that young is in a new car their parents bought it for them.

They would license out their older models to whoever asked. Rumour has it that they sold the Russians a complete factory (where the Zhiguli/Lada Riva/VAZ-2107 was built) in exchange for some steel which got turned into Fiats and Lancias. Unfortunately it was poor-quality steel so the Fiats and Lancias rusted.

Not new, but you could import a 25-year-old one updated to "modern" spec AFAIK.