@MwaM: HowmanytimeswillI sayit?: Safer for whom? Safety is subjective- an Expedition is a terrifying menace if you drive anything smaller. As for utility, I once borrowed an Expedition to pick up some patio furniture at Lowes. I discovered as I got out to the vehicle that the seats don't fold much, making it…

@CptSevere: You could get them keyed alike and have a tidier key ring...

The thought of a Corona with a Wankel halo leaves me somewhat moonstruck.

When I first looked at the post, the image wouldn't load. It wasn't clear that there were two mechanics, so I understood the image caption to mean that there was a tranny wrenching on an engine.

@jdoubleh:

@Motor_Yakuza: No, but some ricer is likely to do the inverse in short order.

Did anyone else notice all the lights on the numbers? Its a detail I've never noticed before on any other car. Anyone know the story behind that?

@Peter Orosz: Ambiguous- 15 minutes by his legs or yours? You could be sitting in the chair across the room, for all we know.

@Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Oh that so wins for me.

@Lost in the age of Aerostar: It's a Tempo, isn't it? The first year that car was on the market, it had the distinction of having the highest number of traffic fatalities of any passenger car in the US. I doubt it was due solely to light steering feel at speed. If anything the "spoiler" may have lived up to an…

@pauljones: Pompous may have been a poor choice of words. I guess I should have said brash and bombastic. As for tacky, I’ll stand by that, but I don’t mean it in a bad way. I mean it in the sense that we're 'Mericans and we don't give a damn what anybody thinks of us. Also, AMC’s design language always lacked a…

@layabout returns: Nice reference. I haven't thought about that show since it originally aired.

@pauljones:You're right- if the car is to be an emblem of our culture, the Javelin is a perfect example of American isolationist automotive design and brute force engineering. It is loud, pompous and tacky. And it is only small in an American car sense.

American cars don’t make good diplomats. I remember the first one I saw in Europe. It was August 1987 and I was in Paris. After three weeks of heavy duty tourism on the rails of Europe, I was nearly broke. I had a Eurail pass, a couple of 35mm film canisters of 10 Centimes, nowhere to stay and two days before my…

@Ash78: As if i-drive wasn't bad enough, they throw in that baffling mess of a shift lever. The selection indicator is under my hand while shifting? By that logic, there should be a vacuum gauge on the accelerator pedal- under your foot. From an ergonomic design standpoint, BMW is lost in the woods sans compass or…

Turning the Beetle sideways? pish. We disassembled one and reassembled it in his classroom. On the second floor.

@Ash78: I'm up for some motorboating and I was just listening to Rudder... but the NYC variety:

@ursa: I think Stanley discontinued production of the last model they were making back in the late 90's (model 46?). I just did a search on www.google.com/products with the search terms "stanley yankee 45" and found several, including one on ebay. There were tons of yankee drills sold over a period of about a century,…

When cordless drills were becoming widely available in the 80’s I remember telling my dad that I wanted one. He handed me a Yankee drill and said, "Here’s your cordless drill." Several decades and many cordless electrics later, I still have the same Yankee drill, and it still works as it did when he gave it to me.…

I think the non-stick pan look is cool. In fact, I want a non-stick car. In Lindsay's case, I should think nonstick would be helpful for all the vomit. Heck, her Rolls Royce seems to want to make me vomit.