Ah, good point! Some of the backlit LCD displays in my car are not viewable from certain angles when I have my sunglasses on.

You’re asking the wrong person here as I am not an expert on optics, but I do note that the MINI’s HUD screen is tinted, so perhaps that allows for better contrast when viewing the HUD image than would a non-tinted windscreen glass? I’m really not sure. Just speculation. Or perhaps they were just going for the jet…

It folds down and you can also adjust the angle to work with dirvers of different heights.

You can see it in action here (though not on the Clubman in the video, it’s similar):

Incidentally, the Roadster and Coupe have ended production as of several months ago, so you can subtract those from the list.

Honeslty, who cares? If you want to buy a Mini and not a MINI you are going to have to buy used. Cars like the Mini, the way BMC or Leyland or even Rover Group made them are simply not going to be made anymore. There is no going back. Everyone who complains that the MINI is now MAXI or falls back on other tedious…

It retracts.

You don’t understand how the MINI brand name appears as branding on its cars?

Which is why it is well past time for a woman to be leading the Church. But I suspect we will see married priests before that.

Some of us students used to be volunteered to move boxes and the like between the convent and the school, so we saw the inside of the convent more than once. I recall dark, tiny rooms and stale air. Very dreary.

What do the priests need with all that wealth, just to lead a local church? Our church was a massive, airy, expensive building and the school tution was quite high at the time. Yet we had a rat trap of a gymnasium (since torn down and replaced with something quite elaborate) and the teachers’ lounge in the school was…

St Katharine of Siena. I dropped by a few years ago to see that the school building had been greatly expanded from what it was when I was a student there. It was almost unrecognizable (though the student bathrooms looked exactly as they did all the 8 years I was there). Also, I believe all the nuns are gone now. It’s…

When I was in Catholic grade school in the 1980s, the convent housed about 10 or 12 nuns who were members of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in Wayne, PA, outside of Philadelphia. They had small bedrooms, one car to share among them, did all their own cooking, cleaning and shopping, in addition to teaching the students.…

If someone put green valves caps on my wheels, they would be coming off as soon as I got home. Not that I would pay for nitrogen in the first place.

This is what the dealer where I got my car uses. I don’t mind it, but it would be a simple matter to remove it with fishing line, just like the hood badge. I doubt most people who don’t already know what this badge is would know it’s a dealer badge and because of that, I don’t feel like I’m advertising for them. If…

A few years ago I was behind an old Honda on a rainy road. There was a pickup in front of him and the pickup had signaled a right turn into a shopping center. Shitbox Honda was driving way too close and too fast for the road conditions and as the pickup was making his turn the Honda drove right into him from the rear.…

I’d expel everyone who lives in that building. Make an example of them.

What can I say? Logic and religious beliefs (particular among these kinds of people who make it such an all-encompassing aspect of their daily lives) do not mix. This guy talks about Dugger not yet being “truly broken” and how he cannot help the situation until that happens. In my way of thinking, I don’t particularly…

These are the same people who think that praying for something will actually help matters.

In 1995 there was a PC/DOS game called “Airpower: Battle in the Skies” and you controlled one of 8 different fantasy aircraft that were launched and recovered by airships. It was a clunky game, but I enjoyed it, particularly watching the airship vs. airship battles: