Jim Henson was way ahead of his time with the whole “species-fluid” identity.

Even when they were new, these weren’t very desirable. It was based on the Dodge Omni / Plymouth Horizon, which were themselves very mediocre, dumbed-down American versions of Simca/Talbot European models.

Aren’t we all being a little too hard on Ted Cruz?
After all, even Trumpist Neo-fascists need some sun and fun too.

According to this webpage, New Zealand is currently assigned VINs starting with 7A-7E. VINs starting 7F-70 are now allocated to US plants.

Every reference I’ve seen on VINs has said that US-built vehicles start with number 1, 4 or 5. Canadian-built cars have VINs starting with 2, and Mexican-built cars start with 3.

As the saying goes, “The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there...”.

Yes - “crumpet” is not specific to Stirling Moss, it was 1950's-1960's British slang for an attractive woman, analogous to “chicks” in American English.

Yep, scariest feeling ever, particularly if you have a safe, risk-averse approach to driving.

Also, just because the USPTO grants a patent, it carries no guarantee that the idea is functional or valuable.

This posting reminds me of the parody VW ad the National Lampoon did in the 1970's - they had to issue apologies to both Ted Kennedy and Volkswagen, which vehemently denied any association with the Lampoon parody ad.

They have eight CLASS wins, not eight overall wins.

In recent years, there’s been a weird tendency to overstate results in endurance racing, probably driven in large degree by manufacturer PR and advertising. Class wins are now stated as “wins” without proper context.

The Elantra GT N-line was an interesting offering too, but it’s now discontinued. I was interested enough to do an inventory search a couple of years ago, but but there were NONE in stock within 100-150 miles. Velosters aren’t exactly easy to find either.

Fuzzbuster was the trademarked brand name for a specific brand of radar detector. It became one of those brand names that becomes generically synonymous with the item, like Frigidaire for refrigerator or Scotch Tape for cellophane tape. That brand name seems to have disappeared at some point.

Posi-traction was an old, GM-specific trademark for their limited-slip differential (LSD) was my understanding. I hadn’t heard the term in many years until I saw it in “My Cousin Vinnie”, and realized it was just what is now called LSD.

And not just the ‘80s- The term was probably more popular in the hot-rod / muscle car slang of the 1960's -70's, maybe as far back as the 1950's.

Serious question: Many of the Capital rioters have already been identified, charged and arrested.  Could Trump do a blanket pardon of all of them on Jan. 19th?

Other than all those cars, how was David Tracy as a neighbor?

That wrap is ...interesting... I guess...

The fraud sure makes for an interesting story, but these stories about L.W. Wright bury the lede: