Possibly you’re joshing, but I also had one as a rental and it was probably the best-driving Toyota I’ve had since the ‘80s. The minimal suspension travel and the fact that it would lift the outboard rear wheel off the ground even in low-speed cornering made it seem far more exciting and “sporty” than the Camrys, or…

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…

Why doesn’t Netflix pull the movie from streaming? Why do people old enough to have a fucking license to drive have to be told not to drive blindfolded?

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…

In 1962, it wasn’t just an outdated trope that middle-aged women often lied about their actual age. In the absence of other evidence, especially in the context of a television sitcom, there is no reason to assume that Jane Jetson was 33 simply because she told her children so; even they probably weren’t fooled. Was…

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):

Well, it might also behoove someone writing an article selling this materal as a tremendous innovation to actually explain why it is an innovation, when things with similar properties have been available for many decades.

No.

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.

You missed one of the original, more critical consequences of the development of mechanical clocks: the ability to calculate exact longitude in addition the previously known ability to calculate latitude. Travel on bodies of water out of sight of land and intentionally reaching a specific destination (even if merely…