Several years ago Ford had a fantastic color called Dark Side Metallic, which in dim light was black verging on sapphire blue, but in brighter light also displayed emerald green highlights because the sparkle bits were a different color than the enamel tint.
10 seems to have gotten better, if pushier, since launch, but since I purposely configured my ThinkPad without a camera, fingerprint reader, or touchscreen, I’m still very happy with 7 Pro, although I suppose a 3-yr-old laptop is also desperately behind the times.
Climate change may be making it happen faster because of more frequent and more severe storms, but Avery Island’s eventual fate was sealed when the Mississippi/Atchafalaya system was channelized for navigation and flood control. Without the ongoing sediment replacement, along with subsidence, most of coastal Louisiana…
All you need is some of the final red-state Democrats who get criticized for meaningless votes that the Republicans would win anyway to lose primaries to further-left challengers who go down in flames in the general, and progressives in some purple states to once again stay home instead of choosing the lesser of two…
So, once again alleged capitalists are upset that someone refuses to “loan” something valuable for free, on demand? There are now 250 years of fine arts and decor, gifted and purchased, accumulated in warehouses available to the White House, and I believe that the Smithsonian museums sometimes do deals for items that…
130hp net is considerably more than the 101hp gross of the inspiration’s original 170 cube I6. The NA Miata weighs about 500lb less than a 1965 Mustang convertible with its original body; how much does the custom body add?
One of the more infuriating things about this is that during the Bush Administration, the DEA actually had some physicians doing accredited studies on chronic severe pain management arrested for over-prescribing and suspended their licenses to prescribe until they attended a reeducation camp on appropriate dosage. And…
“My God, what if the French fries defrost?”
I could deal with it only coming with AWD I don’t need, but I don’t understand why it doesn’t offer all the exterior colors that the 5-door does, or why the base model only comes in white, black and grey with the last two at an upcharge. I haven’t seen the wagon yet, but the 5-door has some cargo compartment oddities…
There were other cars in 1995 and earlier with 7500 mi oil change intervals as long as the oil met the required SAE/API spec, and suffered no ill effects. Although even today if you actually read the service requirements many if not most vehicles used for commuting ought to be on the “severe” use schedule.
It was called an RVR or an Expo LRV, but not an “Expo RVR”. And the Space Wagon was a Mitsubishi Chariot, i. e. larger Expo/Colt Vista.
You think artists and engineers are unpaid for physical media? It’s not like broadcast radio, which by law is considered advertising for the artist in lieu of royalties. Simply on principle, why should sampled and compressed files ever cost the same as complete files provided on a convenient, storable backup medium?…
There is no signage or they were driving with no lights which might illuminate signs in the low-visibility conditions? I am skeptical that they had to drive off the end of the dock, but I will say that one of my GPS misadventures was being directed to a ferry across Lake Champlain while driving from Troy to…
Tesla is far from the largest seller of electric cars in Europe, which is where the cited piece is discussing. Their annual sales amount to a couple months of the BMW i3 alone; VW, Renault and Nissan also handily outsell them, so it makes sense for Ford and Daimler-Benz to help enlarge the infrastructure already…
I saw the first car I owned, a 1978 Mercury Zephyr 302 V8 station wagon I got for nothing when my mother died, at least twice after I traded it in on my first new car. It was a odd color combination so it was easy to spot on the road or in parking lots. According to the new car salesman one of the dealership mechanics…
White Whiners Matter
IIRC, US 560s and 420s were all LWB, while 380/500s were available as stretched or not. The LWB does go with your theory of ‘80s excess, but the SWB’s proportions has its own attractions.
“Typically the smaller the laptop the cheaper it is”. This is only relatively recently true; for a long time portability carried a premium, either in price for similar performance or lower performance for similar price. Now that more compact components are commonplace the premium is usually on thinner devices. My…
Isn’t this basically the premise of Special Unit 2? Which was already copied in a lite version as The Unusuals.
Despite the styling, I recall the platform as being closer the the G Laser than the J LeBaron.
