Hmm. I was thinking Pontiac because it has a "nose stripe" in chrome, '37 or '39.

Could also, if I'm on crack, be a '39.

I think Pontiac also for #2, to be more precise, I think '37.

No it means that to discredit Bill Clinton's handling of NAFTA and Chinese trade, it smuggled SARS into the country, which then led to unreported latent infections in the inner city of a completely separate mind-altering virus and donks. Do I have to spell it all out for you?

I swapped my coffee for Jolly Rancher smoothie this morning. It's like liquid diabetes.

It was my civic duty.

"Bad C-pillar, flush, no gate, big rims" is an anagram for "Sad Bim, no E, lush SARS pig. GTFAC, Bill."

I think we're big enough nerds to appreciate The Shat's version as well. Or perhaps not.

I'd think that would depend on the cycle required by a given department. Any department that is logging most of its vehicle hours in idle/AC and systems on will benefit greatly from smaller displacement. In that, I think the EcoBoost will likely remain ahead, where highway speed runs and patrol duty might shave the…

I had an '80s Caddy/Rabbit pickup. I regularly got in the neighborhood of 45 MPG or better. It also (with some issues, sure) had 242k miles on it when I sold it.

The version he performed with Hawkwind before founding Motorhead is very good as well. Electric violin.

Yes, yes I do. And you need to improve your "checking responses", which would reveal to you that about 3 other people pointed that out, and after the 15 minutes to correct my comment were past. Mea culpa, but there is an element of irony in your remark...

Very true, but at the same time, an engine is a rather larger surprise one-term expense than what she was paying for it monthly. Insofar as perhaps one should expect the possibility of such things with an Audi, your point probably stands, though.

Deja vu. It's a glitch in the Matrix. Something's been changed.

Hey, now, "1970s green" was considered the lucky color to get a Trabant in. Then again, that and being unable to pick one's car color may tell you all you East Germany you ever need to know.

Ah.

Ah. Tilden possibly being the comic individual or shop assigned to reassemble. There's still incompetence on the part of the dealer on the other counts, of course.

You can understand a beater going in to a shadetree mechanic and having some pieces placed in the car temporarily. Not a freakin' three year old car, an AUDI at that, and at the dealership. That, and she brought it in for a check engine light and it was immediately torn down for unclear reasons? Communication skills,…

3rd gear: A glued together engine? Pieces of the engine in the back seat floorboads? At an Audi dealership?! And they were stupid enough to do this to a soldier single mother? Even if the "glue" mentioned is sticking together gasket surfaces with RTV silicone (and no bolts), there's unspeakable incompetence involved.…

"Pretty car. Paid for?"