Well, “Inspire” is a Honda nameplate that probably hasn’t become an abandoned trademark everywhere yet despite not having been used since MY 2012. And businesses now tend to like uneek spellings because they are easier to trademark worldwide. Plus, since en- is a prefix indicating within or inside, I’m sure that Suzie…

According to babycenter.com, it is the 4159th most popular girl’s name in 2018 so far, up 1850 spots from 2017. Wanna bet it will move up higher before 1/1/19?

One of the best-looking pickups since the ‘50s, but as a concept probably would have been better suited to the Ranger; smaller, sorta sporty, younger buyers, less likely to be used as a trade or farm vehicle.

Some of the Firefox footage was actually recycled from 1968's Ice Station Zebra, which is worth seeing for its own sake. Semicentennial trivia: Cinerama prints of 2001: A Space Odyssey (released in April) were pulled by MGM despite continuing good box office receipts so that Cinerama-equipped venues would be available…

The “frequently bought together” GFCI Tester is also useful for determining whether your outlets are actually grounded and if they’re grounded with the correct polarity. The GFCI in my 1980s-remodeled bathroom wasn’t grounded at all nor were several other outlets where the original two-prong receptacles had been…

The “frequently bought together” GFCI Tester is also useful for determining whether your outlets are actually…

Isn’t Texas the state where the conspiracy press and Republicans in state government got all bent out of shape two years ago when the DoD conducted a major but routine exercise that was somehow transformed into a plot by the Obama administration to take over and occupy the state? Can we really trust the military just…

Because in older homes it’s frequently based on the space available for the laundry room and the desirability of minimizing the length of both the water lines run and the dryer vent run. My sister’s second-floor laundry has the dryer on the left because it’s next to an exterior wall and the washer on the right where…

A hashtag that parses as “Spartan Swill” doesn’t seem the most intelligent idea.

Seems copied from recent Hondas. I didn’t understand why they placed the hood cut lines on the profile of the car when it just accentuates the enormous panel gaps, but it never occurred to me that it might be by intent as a “design” feature. It still doesn’t explain why the gaps on Ontario-built Civics seem a bit…

A major reason that states with usury limits raised or eliminated them was that during the excess inflation of the 1970s, especially the end of the Carter administration, interest rates based on the prime or Fed funds rates were bumping against or exceeding usury limits in a number of states (for a few months the…

“Far Beyond the Stars” was set in the 1950s. The story would be less relevant in a decade where Samuel R. Delaney was routinely published at the beginning and winning back-to-back Best Novel Nebulas in ‘67-’68, and if women SF writers used ambiguous pen names it was by their own choice.

This is actually a mating display; it’s trying to fuck you, not attack you.

The interior also has similarities, e. g. the steering wheel is off-center from the driver’s seat.

It’s a series-parallel hybrid like the Accord and Toyota-Ford system, while older Insights and Civic Hybrids were “integrated motor assist” parallel hybrids.

My sister hasn’t had major problems with her 2005 (bought new at a discount when the ‘06s were arriving), but she only drives it in the warmer half of the year, definitely doesn’t drive 10/10, and maintains it rigorously (except remembering to routinely check the tire pressure, you would think someone with a PhD in…

Standard time in the summer does exactly the opposite of what you advocate. Where I live the sun would be rising before 5am, hours before I get up, and setting before 8pm, allowing less than 2 hours of evening activity after dinner.

The hatch is an Auris, like the current iM, but the fact it will continue is a positive. The engine’s 13:1 compression ratio suggests possible fruit of Toyota’s 5% investment in Mazda. It will be interesting to see the final specs and determine if they’re using the entire SkyActive 2.0l (and its 6-speed manual), or…

Manufacturers need to listen to dealers, but also parse what they say with some logic. How many MINI dealerships are there that aren’t next door to or across the street from BMW dealerships? Are people who buy MINIs actually resistant to buying their larger vehicles with a different badge on them? GM listened to…

It’s not designed for readability in large blocks of text, but they only seem to be using it for headlines and ledes, for which it seems fine.

Since I am unhip, I thought this was one of the best-looking minivans of the time, and one that was right-sized and attractively trimmed.