Maybe they’d have better luck with a figurative combat vessel.

“With possibility to rent out the car at “hot” places like Cannes / Miami when not in use...”

Can’t we just go back to September 10th security rules, except no knives or box cutters? I’ll very happily take my chances from there.

Yes - to be more even more specific, here’s the clip you’re looking for:

I like your horizontal layout, Torch, but it’s all about Richard Scarry’s designs and books!

Pretty car, but where’s the legroom? o_O

The Biblical character named Lot drove around with one that said “SALT WIFE”.

That, and deeper side strakes. Fortunately, your post covers both items.

But that Superb is named accurately.

Drove one of these from France through southern Germany and Austria, to Vienna and back a couple of years ago. Packed with 4 adults, lots of luggage, and yet it had great power, incredible comfort, tons of room for people 6 feet tall and over. Oh, and it looks great, too. Still love the Yeti also, though I have never…

Dat Neon coupé with Cadillac taillights, though...

Sure, at that point you might as well put the cupholder in the dash where the radio belongs, and move the radio out of easy visual range, down where the cupholder belongs.

#COTD

I’m not arguing before or against the loans. I’m just pointing out it was a government-intervention bailout. And by below-market, I’m saying the automakers got a better deal from the government than they could from the market. If they could have done like Ford did by then, I’m pretty sure they would have.

I would posit that to the extent that the government supplied loans to these companies at below-market cost, those companies were subsidized.

Right, it’s forethought and planning, rather than band-aids and duct tape.

Loans - like the 2008-2010 bailout of Detroit (including the low-interest loans and help from the gov’t.) could fairly be described as a subsidy, and were put in as an alternative to a catastrophic collapse of that sector of the economy. It wouldn’t just have been automakers going under-it would have been a raft of…

Ah, the Corrado with the G-Lader and the Nugget Yellow paint <swoon>. I wanted one of these (with that color & engine combo) so hard back in the day (before the VR6 came out). Something about that body style, and the cocoon-like coupe interior.

Digging the hipster girl in the blue bug!

Might as well try this one out in a Food Court.