It kinda has the proportions of a late 40s/early 50s American convertible if you think about it. High beltline, generous ground clearance, chopped greenhouse and stubby overall proportions.

I wonder if he took out a personal loan. In my experience with car loans they've always had a limit of 7, 8, or 9 years now with a mileage cap too. Might be a work around going to a personal loan but at $25k I'm guessing a bank would need some collateral.

Only one problem with these "purchase price" comparisons: it seems that often times most people aren't writing checks for the new car the used one is being compared to. I think this is the source of the endless pushback and inanities. Of course a Fiesta ST is nothing like a 911, but for a person who could only get a…

In my eyes (those of a professional industrial designer) wagons are more successful designs.

Chris, you are my hero.

This read quicker than an airline safety pamphlet and was more entertaining than a dozen Lego Movies.

I know a few people in this "Gen Z". More relevantly, I know a few working car designers at the Big Three who are just a little older than this Dragonball generation. One of them recently moved to Ford, because it was "cooler." His words. Most of the rest work at GM. The Chrysler designers I know are acquaintances…

The Forester is surprisngly OK, if you need some manner of inexpensive AWD vehicle with plenty of room for sub $30k. It's ostensibly a better vehicle than say, an Audi Q3 even though that's what I'd prefer because I like the design.

Scania merger was in the late 60s, early 70s. GM got involved in 1990. The glory years were 1971 to 1989 when cars, trucks, airplanes and more were all legitimately part of the same enterprise.

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"Born from jets" had meaning up to 1989, when Saab Automobile was separated from Saab AB:

I upgrade my phone every two years. I also seem to have a drawer of every phone I've owned since my Moto V120 in 2001.

Have we already forgotten "Kanye Zone?"

Seriously, can we talk about this bear?? Icebear.

Really though this isn't just about the music, it's about having a safer and more useful means of connecting with a mobile device without upsetting the purity of your classic. For a lot of us owners of older vehicles, that's more important than archaic notions of purity.

If I'm not mistaken the Phaeton and A8 only share an engine. The Phaeton is the VW D1 platform mate to the Bentley Continental, all rendered in heavyweight steel. The A8 is the all-aluminum D3 platform, shared only with itself.

True genius knows when form mastery is achieved, and improves in other areas.

Where Jony Ive's team could prove a limited man like Ackerson wrong is in their mastery of materials.

And then someone tells you your veggie salad wrap will cost $35,000. Which is a bit much for a veggie salad wrap.