While I have questions about why a clean-sheet design needs fillers like it was a refresh of a model that originally had much larger headlamps, e. g. GMC Acadia and Terrain from a few years ago; wonder exactly what material will be used for the fake vents in the lower fascia (Audi has used both glossy black which…

OK, so D-B, BMW, and Audi seem to sell some 900,000 units annually in the US, and build 800,000, some of which are exported to Asia, Australia and the rest of the Americas (at least 175,000 units to China, 2/3 of US auto exports to that country). Most of their cars are expensive, so the imports are high in terms of…

“Vomit” was traditionally used as a verb only; “vomitus” was the correct noun form referring to the product. Casual usage has evolved to allow the former word to be used in either sense.

It seems odd that the police report labels it a “B310" which is the model code for this generation Datsun Sunny; the US model was badged as 210 (replacing the B210 which had used its model code as the badge), while 310 (no B) was the US badge for the concurrent N10/N11 Nissan Pulsar.

The main picture and some of the user posts are actually Corona Mark IIs, a larger, differently-styled car positioned above the Corona beginning in 1968, and eventually just called Mark II, or Cressida in some markets. Apparently we really don’t remember the longer-established Corona.

Since electricity usage will grow, and electricity generation is also taxed in most circumstances, is the “loss” a net number, or only a calculation of the decrease in road fuel revenues? I looked for more info on the study methodology, but didn’t find an answer yet.

Is this a good time to point out that “quantum leap” means the opposite of what most people using the expression colloquially actually mean?

FYI, even badged as a Toyota, that Mazda Connect system has everything it needs for navigation functions except the SD card with the mapping data, which adds $399 at list. Not surprising a rental car didn’t have it, but if a buyer actually wanted it they could get it. For phone apps, apparently this summer is when…

Jason, this time you’re just wrong. Shooting-brake or shooting brake may be a popular term for a 2-door wagon, and it may be the usage that you personally prefer, but historically it is simply an anachronistic synonym for estate car or station wagon, regardless of the number of doors, and this usage has continued…

No, we had body c0lor mirrors in the early ‘70s, usually as an option on “sport” models—look at something like a Chevelle Laguna, Gran Torino Sport, Grand Prix, Skylark GS, Satellite Sebring, etc. and you might see them. Ford called them “Outside Color-Keyed Dual Racing” mirrors on the option sheet, e. g.

‘73 Gran Torino Sport?

“players can demonstrate or protest where no one can see, which nullifies the purpose of demonstration or protest”

Have you tried the LED-filament bulbs, at an appropriate color temperature? I find them pleasing, and more decorative in exposed-bulb fixtures, plus they don’t have the problem of some bulbs only radiating in a hemisphere away from the base so they work in art glass shades.

The problem is, to incorporate electric motors underneath, power seats are virtually always mounted too high for me to find my preferred driving position. And since many cars don’t use different seat frames or even tracks for non-powered seats, on cars where power seats are an option, the non-power seats are also…

Please. For fugly points, the 5-series GT doesn’t even get in the conversation when things like the E65 7-series and E60 5-series exist.

Sometimes people purchase things on sale in anticipation of using them later. Sometimes those people tragically cease to be, and whoever has to sort through their stuff donates it to thrift stores to sell.

Was the groundhog black? It is Carroll County, after all. Years ago when I lived in Howard County, a yearling black bear wandered over from western Maryland one spring, and the local tv channels broke into programming to show it ambling up US 29 through Columbia towards Ellicott City, generally minding its own…

Apropos of knives, in 2014 at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, PA, a student armed with two >8-in knives slashed and stabbed 20 students and a security guard before being subdued by an administrator and another student. Several of the victims were critically injured; the most serious case was hospitalized…

Because existing buildings and space constraints prevented the most desirable configuration of ramps, in the relatively recent reconstruction of where I-70/I-79 intersects US 19 in Washington, PA, northbound and southbound 19 traffic run on the respective left side opposite the US convention, but that’s controlled by…

You may not have known the word for it, Andrew, but you’ve probably been doing it for much of your adult life.