...and the Prizm was technically a JDM Sprinter, like its predecessor badged as Chevy Nova. Mechanically a Corolla, but with a different greenhouse and body panel stampings.

If it has bezels, it’s “old-fashioned” and must be bad. Now, you can make the overall package smaller, and someday the panel industry will introduce a size that that can shrink it further while still having more usable keyboard pitch than a 12". But it makes me laugh when people who hate bezels complain about the…

Even many of the foreign brands’ US-assembled models can’t break a 50% American parts threshold at this time. With the current “US & Canadian” breakout, Imprezas assembled in Indiana and Elantras assembled in Alabama have less than 50%, and less than Chevy Cruzes assembled in Mexico (which is >60% iirc). Those are…

Designing them so they fold is fascinating. It’s like taking scherenschnitten and animating them.

I assume that Canadian and Mexican providers charge T-Mobile, and the costs have grown greater than T-Mobile is willing to absorb without raising rates or limiting service. I have a 5gb LTE limit on my T-Mobile prepaid plan and never use half that, but it’s not my primary data connection.

Pittsburgh is one of the rainiest cities in the country, but 301 days is bullshit, it’s at most half that by most sources. Considering how many metro areas have difficulties providing it, an abundant and economical supply of fresh water is not to be neglected. Even cloudy days is around 200, which is a negative for…

You are probably aware, or should be, that a century ago Sears, Roebuck, and Co. would deliver a complete precut RTA house kit to your nearest railhead, so it’s pleasing to see that the modern day equivalent is continuing the concept. Between 1908-40 approximately 100,000 Craftsman-brand house kits were sold. Lots of…

MY2017 brought with it the ZF 9-speed. I had one a couple weeks ago because I had a free double upgrade. I hate big vehicles so I didn’t really consider it an “upgrade”, but there are no complaints about the power. The ponderous handling and uncomfortable driving position compared to what I’m used to, and the…

Companies that sell RTA furniture often have high shipping charges, because it’s heavy and they don’t do enough business to be able to subsidize free shipping. So that never surprised me about IKEA’s online sales. This Amazon tieup could be a benefit for some people, because IKEA does not sell its entire catalog at…

If only someone had thought to cast this in advance as “President Trump meets delegation of mostly Canadian and European socialists wishing to discuss single-payer health care, concussion protocols, and other issues of topical concern.”

“a good-looking, sporty car.” Seriously? At the time it was commonly referred to as the “Atomic Cockroach.”

Gattaca used a heavy mix of older Citroens, along with US Avantis, as cars of the future world. But they were disguised rather than product-placed.

Before signing on to this I think I’d first campaign to not have TVs preset to “Vivid” or whatever the manufacturer calls the bright and hot showroom setting. Unnatural color balance and saturation would be a bigger bother to me watching a film than motion interpolation.

And it’s interesting as a movie car because actual police Tauri of that style had slots for additional airflow flanking the oval intake. It’s also interesting because the body is almost unmodified, reminding us that despite being preceded by the Audi 100/5000 and even the Tempo, the Taurus was regarded as so…

Yes, it is fairly priced—not bargain-priced which some people seem to expect—for the hardware regardless of OS, and the hardware specs and the design are superior to existing Chromebooks that are priced in the same range. Google’s job, like Microsoft’s with the Surface line, is to establish a vision of what an…

Up through the 1950s at least, wool upholstery was often considered more luxurious than leather and was offered at a premium in luxury cars. Especially when dealing with models that are mostly chauffeur-driven, like this one, the perceived greater difficulty of maintaining it properly is actually a signal of the…

So, climate change created by greenhouse gas emissions is going to make use of machines that generate lots of greenhouse gases more difficult? Can’t that be a self-correcting benefit?

I like MacFarlane’s Christmas album. If he would give up being a terrible actor, writer, director and producer, he might have a nice career.

Asus and HP, perhaps others, already sell Chromebooks in the Pixel price range, and they’re still using smaller-capacity EMMCs instead of 128-512gb SSDs, 4 or 8gb RAM instead of 8 or 16, and Core m processors instead of Core i5 or i7 (unless Google is using the Y-series Core i, which is a rebranded next-generation m;…

Ford even built a winter home in Florida on a lot neighboring Edison’s. And their families went “glamping” several times along with Henry Firestone, John Burroughs, and once Warren Harding.