About the only nugget of thruthiness to be found would be that some models produced in large quantity at transplant factories don’t meet his proposed 50% US content standard, but then, some models produced by US manufacturers at US plants probably don’t either (difficult to tell precisely since US isn’t currently…

I give it points for creativity, but without more specific details it falls in the category where the parent seems more invested in the costume than the child.

Like most white male millionaires/imaginary billionaires these days, he gets pissy when the press corps does not collectively drop to their knees and take turns fellating him in appreciation of his extraordinary genius.

One thing I recall from reading history, and found interesting, was how all that nice cut marble and limestone lying unused as old public buildings became a supply of building material for far more humble structures, for more common people, during the Middle Ages. Or even burnt to turn into quicklime for cement or…

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…