In what universe is the tacky-as-shit chrome strip a “tasteful touch?” And I think it’s less a case of an underpowered engine and more of a typically overweight Buick.

Wasn’t this abundantly apparent at the time it occurred?

Because quarterbacks who win the Heisman always have stellar NFL careers.

When German-speakers borrow a word from French, they are under no obligation to assign it the same meaning as American-speakers borrowing a word from French. Especially when the French word doesn’t actually mean what the American speakers think it means.

Was it not possible to praise 2001: A Space Odyssey without disrespecting The Lion In Winter? Even if forced to cut an existing nominee rather than expand the field, surely the knockout would be Oliver!, among the greatest atrocities as winner, or possibly Rachel, Rachel, a movie with some merit but really skating on…

It’s also a 2+2.

So, American sheet Nazis hate European-style bedmaking? If you leave the US, you only stay at places that feature FREEDOM bedding?

Capitalized cost reduction or “down payment” is frequently part of advertised lease deals, especially low-monthly-rate teasers like the $199/mo specials. It lowers the monthly rate but not the total, so either way this example seems misleading, although the disclosure might be on a web site or the bottom of a poster…

Back in 2011 a truck drove nearly 40 mi along the Pennsylvania Turnpike with a slow leak of asphalt driveway sealant and disabled several hundred cars—it was night so it couldn’t be seen, otoh there was less traffic than during the day and “only” 4 possible entry points affected. After receiving multiple calls the…

May as well make use of the keys as long as the ‘rents let you have them, Alex.

Or Chevy.

For one thing, fuel taxes are ostensibly earmarked only for transportation projects (although they are sometimes raided for other things), which is road building and repair in most states but also includes airport improvements, and in coastal and some riparian states, port improvements; while general taxes require…

I love how conservatives always want things indexed to inflation or some other increasing index when it puts money in their pockets, but not when it takes money out.

Why does it have a moonroof? Is it supposed to be an escape hatch, or is it part of being a car you can use in your daily life and track on weekends?

“sales fell and the number of dealerships edged up”

88hp from 1.8l was well within the competitive standard; a Mazda 2.0l made 83 in the 626 and Honda’s 1.8l made 75 in the Accord. What I can’t understand is the slow 0-60 when the 626 ran in the low 12 sec, but the Accord auto was about the same as the Cavalier.

They were public and common shorthand in car magazines; A for midsize, B for full-size family, C for full-size luxury sedans, E for full-size luxury coupes. Briefly in the 1980s Pontiac even incorporated the platform letter in some models’ names to be more “European”—A6000, J2000, T1000—before realizing that the…

Wouldn’t the subway be below the ground water level anyway, regardless of how the surface water used to be arranged? Even underground parking garages in Manhattan would be inundated if they weren’t pumped out constantly, and the same is true of other estuarine cities.

Now that most dealerships are part of large regional groups with multiple brands and multiple locations, do you experience much difference in behavior between brands or locations with common ownership? Should I expect different behavior from Cxxxxxn Subaru and Cxxxxxn Mazda that are across the street from each other?…

This could also be a coded reference to the belief of some conservatives that the office of county sheriff has powers that override higher levels of government, because for some reason precedents of English common law are above the Constitutions of the states and United States