Hopefully the motors and batteries are not branded Lucas.

Thank you Google Translate:

The reason dealer franchise laws will never go away.

Not from Detroit, but I gotta star this. Your football team still sucks though (yup, the same one that beat the Bears a few weeks ago 😁).

Awesome info, thank you!

Fantastic piece! I remember when I first heard “Trans. Europe. Express.”; it was a huge hit in Chicago at the time. I had no idea that Detroit played such a huge role in techno. I guess it stands somewhat to reason, as I can’t put on any modern EDM while I’m driving; the speedometer has too much of a propensity to…

What’s equally amusing (perplexing?) is that their HQs are right next to each other in Seoul. They aren’t identical, but you can clearly see they were designed and built at the same time. Not twins, but certainly Minas Morgul and Minas Tirith.

Kia salespeople are fond of calling it the “Selluride.”

They can be awful, but then again their hateboys are equally awful. I once (correctly) stated that Tesla has changed the world with their vehicles and charging network, and the hateboys had a conniption (and I’m not even a Tesla owner). People need to chill.

Not just no, but FN.

I was a kid living in Chicago at the time of the Flight 191 crash and it profoundly affected me, probably somewhat because of this photo on the cover of the Trib. I kept thinking to myself, “wow.. in a split second all those people...”

Probably illustrating the similarities (and stark differences) between getting the 737 Max and the DC-10 back in service. The DC-10 crashed around Memorial Day, 1979 and was back in service in July, after figuring out why the engine fell off. So basically a couple of months vs a couple of years.

Darn you for posting this!

This car is going to take 10s of thousands of dollars to get “made right.” You’d probably be better off spending that 30K (rough guess) on a car that had considerably fewer problems to begin with.

Wow this is a pretty cool story. We’ll find out who he was when he’s on his death bed.

These cars were memorable for being completely, apologetic underachievers. I remember the ads for them and their “high swirl combustion chambers.” CP for sure, but maybe if it were the Mercury Topaz rendition.

It’s only a matter of time before someone does an LS engine-swap on this thing.

It kinda looks like a more powerful scooter from that era- which could possibly have been deliberate.

Although, NY is NY and there are “don’t give a shit dudes” in every industry and I could see a guy having a bad night taking joy in blasting cars in the way.

..or snow tires, which would have done more to prevent him from leaving the road in the first place (unless of course he couldn’t rightly tell where the road was in the first place).