I wonder if TB’s performance might also be improved by targeted prostate massage and periodic penis milking. It sounds like it wouldn’t be difficult to convince him, especially if you created a couple of web sites touting your credentials.

Jeez, IKEA had a conceptually similar thing displayed in their stores 30 years ago testing the Poem armchair, along with others in different parts of the store like the ‘bot repeatedly opening and closing the drawers of an AKURUM kitchen cabinet.

And the lovely Light Chamois paint color, like that on my mother’s Zephyr station wagon that became my first car after university, marks it as a 1978 or 79.

I recall a decade or so ago she and some show biz friends were putting together a tour to entertain troops in Iraq and the poor JOs in military public relations were completely unprepared for dealing with people like her.

• In 1985-87, it was technically a Cutlass Calais. So as not to be outdone by its platform-mate, the Buick Somerset Regal. Weirdly, for ‘86 the latter became a Somerset and in ‘88 a Skylark, while in ‘88 the former was just a Calais. Late ‘80s GM was a confusing place.
  

The idiom I’m familiar with is “inmates running the asylum”, so unless prison is a regional institution preference, it seems a deliberate word choice with more direct racial tone.

DON’T BLOCK THE BOX!

I’m not sure I regard a different roof color as a two-tone in the traditional sense; it’s more like a vinyl roof, without the vinyl. In fact, it seems like an ideal application for vinyl wrap instead of paint. If manufacturers want to give buyers more opportunity to express personality, why not offer a greater variety…

I remember several years ago in seeing in another forum a lot of comments that one should buy “neutral” colors because they have better trade-in and resale value. It’s important to recognize that in autos, just like the HGTV real estate programs, what a designer means by the term “neutral” isn’t the same as the…

In the absence of predicted reliability based on the manufacturers’s history, the only sensible approach would be to never buy a new car in its first year of availability, and never buy a car from a manufacturer with so little history to begin with. As CR reiterated, what they term “average” is actually a good rating,…

It might be, for the workers with more than a decade of seniority who receive it.

It doesn’t look much bigger than, say, a Chrysler, and thanks to Enterprise’s policy, I have to carry both of the remotes wired together with aircraft cable.

Average is actually a good rating; it’s a moving target as the quality of automobiles has improved for the past several decades and the difference between significantly above average and significantly below average has narrowed considerably over that period. Vehicles that don’t achieve a predicted score of at least…

...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.

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…

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…

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.

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…