Everything I’ve seen says only 4-doors with short beds; practical for some, but I might just as well buy a used sedan and unbolt the deck lid when I need to..

“Garlic presses waste a bunch of garlic that you can’t get off, you still have to peel the garlic and cut off the stem, and any time saved is sacrificed by how damn long they take to clean.”

Maxes out at more than $27K, if the Monroney sticker on the XSE with CVT and Preferred Package with adaptive headlights I saw last Sunday is to be believed. And sunroof haters, you’re in luck; unlike similarly stratospheric Golfs, Mazda3s, Imprezas, et al., it doesn’t have one!

My next-door neighbor is a nice 90-year-old widow, born in Poland, spent WWII in East Africa with her missionary family, came to USA with her husband after WWII and her family home was occupied by USSR (now Ukraine). She didn’t learn to drive until she was in her 30s, never was very skilled at backing up, might…

Funny it’s a 4-door; I recall seeing a magazine ad for Chevy’s full range of wagons from one year in the late ‘50s and there were more 2-door models than 4-door. And 14" wheels on a full-size car, compared to today! A few years ago the damn Kia Rio SX had 18-inchers standard.

Even a car like this had a curb weight of around 3500lb, or about the same as a FWD Ford Escape today (AWD is about 200lb more). And it was RWD, so you’re not turning the driven wheels and fighting inertia. I learned to drive on RWD cars without power steering (or power brakes), and it’s really not that difficult; as…

If the passenger seat were black it would bother me more. The last Accord coupé with perforated leather front seats and smooth leather rear seat bothered me. The Civic coupé with accent stripes on the front seats but not the rear seat bothers me. This, so what? The driver’s side dash is by nature asymmetric with the…

It’s not necessarily an either/or situation. Bell may be correct that to some other team, with other players, another cash flow, and another cap situation, he might get more than the Steelers offered; and the Steelers may be correct that he is not worth as much as he wants, to them.

Except that it probably says more about people over 65 who are on Facebook than it does about people over 65 in general.

It was quite windy in SW Pennsylvania last night (more cars unseen beneath collapsed canopy):

Wheat, milk, sugar, and eggs has no nutritional value? What the fuck universe do you live in? People from cultures around the globe have made flat breads a major source of diet for millenia.

And they charge a handsome premium, even considering they allegedly select low-mileage cars in exceptional condition. 

Yes, they do affect exposure but are also nice for landscape and some wildlife photography. You can alter how dark a blue the sky is, the amount of reflection or translucence of bodies of water (see the fish!), and how striking some colors appear against a muted background, e. g. birds, flowers, autumn leaves. A…

I will certainly agree that pancakes are garbage at most restaurants, including those that specialize in breakfast, even some mom&pop independents. But homemade ones can be delicious, especially my great-great-grandmother’s (1799-1895) recipe for sourdough buckwheat cakes.

Historically in SF, female commanders wear hot dressy outfits. Servalan on Blake’s 7 (bare shoulders and open decollete). Grayza on Farscape (bare shoulders and lace!). Lursa and B’etor on various Star Trek properties (open decollete and push-up bras!). It’s not as though Star Wars is logically or consistently thought …

Because aircraft incidents are so sporadic and 1/1-12/31 is an arbitrary measure, extreme year-to-year fluctuations can be expected, thus making trends over longer periods more important. In the 1960s through the 1990s, 1000 fatalities a year wasn’t uncommon, close to or exceeding 2000 occurred several times. In 1977 a…

“Commercial cars” = trucks and buses. Volvo-branded automobiles such as the ones you linked to have had no connection to AB Volvo, the Swedish truck and bus manufacturer, since 1999, other than maintaining a license to use the Volvo name.

It can actually be illegal to use funds appropriated for a specific purpose for an unrelated purpose. Sometimes reasoning can be twisted to come up with a justification that may or may not stand up in court. Republicans are definitely aware of this because there are still lawsuits proceeding against Obama-era…

Would you believe that when the LUV was current, the expression “wuv” was not generally used by adults? Also that these vehicles were often bought by younger people, even counterculture types? The name wasn’t thought to be odd in the period context of vehicles with names like Gremlin or Honeybee and paint colors like…

Because in winter we tend to wear heavier, warmer garments--unless you’re one of those bros who wears his gym shorts and crop top to the car (good luck if you ever have a flat tire or other mishap, btw). Therefore the temperature setting only needs to be high enough to keep the exposed skin comfortable. There’s no…