They were Golfs with a costume on. Much like most costumes, they mask the wearer’s identity and usually prohibit them from doing the everyday things they usually do.

There is a corner of my hypothetical lottery win collection devoted to various Lite and TownAce vans (as well as the Nissan Vanette). I don’t quite know why but I love these little things.

Having said that, I also would have a first or second generation Chevy Van, a Greenbrier, an early Ford Econoline, the oldest Ford…

We’ve lost one of our Friday’s as well a couple of years ago - they remodeled the building and put in a Potbelly’s and a Noodles & Co. This is on the “worse” side of town (our retail strip has moved about eight miles west. We have a Super Target that’s never busy and a dead mall and everything!), though inexplicably…

Yeah, which is weird because in the second video it’s clear that the Mercedes stopped and blocked the track.

After this the cat went and jumped up on the Toyota team’s workbench, knocked a few tools onto the floor, threw up a hairball in a stray helmet, and promptly took a nap in front of a monitor. #becausecat

It was the writing. Top Gear had gotten overly scripted the last few seasons (even the “spontaneous” banter sounded forced), but The Grand Tour was just unbearably lame, especially everything set in the tent. One only needs to look at the stupid recurring celebrity segment (which was humorously shaped the first time)…

So why was he carrying a plastic bag stuffed with...other plastic bags? newspaper? empty coffee cups?...strapped to the dashboard during his drift time? It looks like the sort of trash bag my aunt would have hooked to the dash of her minivan.

That was the intended joke - it was sort of funny in the first episode but continuing both segments was a bad idea.

Wait, I appear to be ungreyed.....

Talk about food? You betcha!

Bringing gifts of Vuitton, Fendi, and rump shakin’ beats.

When I think “sexy body part” the word that immediately pops into my head is “haunch”.

Depends on the car. Something big like a Charger or Fairlane pulls a vinyl roof off nicely. Something like a Mustang or Camaro doesn’t look quite as good to my eye. Narrow band whitewalls aren’t so bad, though I prefer red lines myself.

Fun Fact: the Penske team used to run their racing Camaros with vinyl roofs,…

They want power, and want to wield it. They might have a nice patter and be able to recite party talking points, but in the end they want to be rulers. Simple as that.

You know they offer direct deposit, right? Just ask for the forms at the kiosk at your next demonstration. If you bring a voided check you can even fill ‘em out and turn ‘em back in and they’ll have it ready for the next pay period! So convenient!

I don’t know if they’re strictly “alt-rock” (I avoided “alternative” stations back in the 90's because they all played the same ten songs), I can name two good music stations that play a mix of stuff. I can’t think of any that play just 90's “alternative”, you probably need a Pandora station to get close to that.

WXRT…

I’m kind of glad it’s gone because I’d gotten a little sick of Chris Hardwick. I stopped watching when they moved it’s time a couple of times and I had to DVR it - I tend to watch any recorded half hour shows in batches, and @midnight didn’t translate well to binge watching a few days later. When I caught episodes…

I loved Undercover Elf Nanny’s first two albums.

Up until the sixties there was a push among the British manufacturers to export in general, and to the US in particular as it was a very large market. Just about anything you could imagine was sold over here for a while, though eventually the market fell to mainly sports cars and certain sedans - the typical small…

Which is what’s happened in Can-Am back in the seventies. McLaren, and later Porsche and Shadow, dominated the field and the standings. By the last seasons nobody was watching.