Wait- are you trying to tell me that those fancy 4wd or AWD systems don’t magically give me super powers to just “drive over the that mountain?”

There are worse crimes; white collar mistakes are much larger. One guy cost his company 3.7 Billion pounds (google Jerome Kerviel).

I see your early Lincoln Prototype Navigation system, and raise you one Etak.

Would much prefer the Thunderbird SC, and even then given the choice between it and the Taurus SHO, I’d take the Taurus SHO.

I like it, but honestly think Hyundai’s solution is more to my liking, where the camera turns on when you turn on the blinker.

In 30 years we will be looking back saying:

That’s pretty awesome. And Han shot first.

Does the Styx LP (Paradise something or other) which had a laser image etched in bridge the gap?

I remember watching “Flashdance” over and over with my first girlfriend in HS on Laserdisc.

The funny thing is, she’s probably got a kid or kids in their late 20s who are now sending texts to their siblings: “Pete, did you happen to see that video of Mom on Jalopnik?”

Timing belts.

Pretty sure I got told “no” once when I asked that lady to dance at a night club back then.

I’d be really curious what the torsional rigidity numbers are on that vehicle.

Every once in a while I see a Giulia around Austin. They sound glorious.

Woohoo!! Weekend trip to Taos, here I come!! Sure, I live in Texas, but what’s a 1000 miles or so between friends?

Um, why isn’t this the top story?

Wow. I think the next week will probably change that a bit, but it’s still an eye-opener.

Tangent: my best Montana driving experience was setting my cruise control at 100 for roughly an hour (it was right around dawn and there was near nil traffic).

Montana doesn’t mess around with cold. I had a friend who lived in Kalispell and I used to check the weather; 25 below zero wasn’t unheard of. Of course, that was in 2004; seems like everything is warming up now.

Pffft... Japan? We’re about 10-15 years out from that in the US, and that’s only for the robot technology to make it look convincing. Don’t believe me? Well, before yesterday, I would have thought it inconceivable that a bunch of assclowns would try and take over the US Capitol Building.