The only thing longer than the hood back then was the rear over hang.

I swear that a few years ago when getting my X5 worked on at the dealer I got an e60 528ix wagon loaner. I can’t find one used now. Did I imagine it?

*yawn* waking up. What? It’s 2007?

CarTalk had a Hyundai driver of large stature who was turning on the seat heaters just by sitting in them. Sounds like there are some design flaws, not problems in manufacturing or installation, at play.

It’s probably an imperial thing, like calling Mumbai Bombay or calling Burgundy Claret. (OK, that second one isn’t a holdover from empire but probably just general feelings toward the French).

That’s worse than “beamer” by a long shot. Worse than Jag-wahr. It’s pretty bad.

Just do like I do and ride Lyft. Seems like a nicely run organization and the drivers mostly tell me that they prefer it to Uber.

I thought the Caesar salad for the toddler was grim foreshadowing.

He was in his 40s. As am I, but that was 35 years ago. Dude is old.

There is going to be a Jackson-Hewitt and a Barrett-Jackson branch.

This was the dash of the car I drove in high school. That material may look like rubber but it’s solid steel, the Ford Face Crusher, I think it was called. Not only make the dash out of steel, but also give it a protruding shape to make it really hurt.

And, apparently, he can do a lot, maybe even withdraw from NAFTA on day one? That doesn’t sound right, but we have given the presidency way too much power, and with an all R government anyway, well, who knows?

He already has executives running scared and moving to try to match his wishes, which aren’t ever clear in advance. Ironically the capriciousness of dictators was one of the main things Ayn Rand railed against. Her acolytes (the modern republicans) will enable all of these behaviors she warned against.

Too bad Trump won’t let them import it.

All,silly, trashy generic stuff but then—you had me at Allard. How did it get mixed in with this off-the-shelf quasi riff raff?

Yep. So very, very Nissan.

That has to be the worst interior-quality to price ratio around. All that gray plastic is like 1990s Chevy, the low point in the history of car interiors.

Somehow this feels like oversteer and understeer at the same time.

Here’s the thing. America *does* know build quality. It’s just not appreciated, especially by the big companies. Given a choice every single FCA employee would make welds of pride. Management just wants to cut corners

So still $7500? Remarkable improvement, but man that’s going to take a chunk out of a Kia’s base price.