The extra $750 upgrade bonus doesn’t seem to be available in all areas of the country right now. OTOH, in some regions the 2018 incentive is $2500 on the sedan and $3000 on the 5-door.

More people having car loans than in 1999 doesn’t necessarily mean financing is more popular vs. other methods of acquisition; some of that increase reflects higher vehicle sales over the last several years vs. the late 1990s, and an increase in loan durations means more people have continuing payments.

As written, it’s 9; any ambiguity is caused by misinterpretation of typography and/or misunderstanding of mathematics.

Well, there are no longer many station wagons to base them on. And most people seem to want 4-doors, so the bed length gets compromised. And almost all pickups are now stanced at 4WD height even if they’re 2WD. So the question is, what is a Honda Ridgeline?—a 4-door, available AWD ute based on a car/crossover…

His Twitter opens with a quote from the Epistle of Paul to the Colossians, with a link to his merch store. Truly, he is an inspiration for today’s young Americans.

This looks like a steam locomotive. A steam engine is what motivates it. Larger stationary engines exist.

For the same reason you can’t just pitch a tent and camp in the town square or have a party in a pavilion at the county park when you feel like it. It’s a free-market method of allocation of a limited public resource.

Ummm, they still sold the Scirocco alongside the Pickup back then, years before the GTI came to the USA.

It’s closer to magenta or fuchsia than purple/violet. The most similar ‘67 Toronado paint chip seems to be Burgundy Mist; maybe the brochure had faded before it was scanned, or there was some artistic license involved.

Hmmm, where I live it’s $32.99K. Plus $995 destination charge. Plus $3K for Sun & Sound Package to match or exceed the spec of the $32,795 Grand Touring Reserve; the Signature has higher-spec trims like the wood and ultrasuede dash and door cards, and Nappa leather that you need to move up to a Stinger GT2 for $51.2K…

Sometimes it’s small details that stand out—I see Ford kept the folding rear headrests, which I consider a positive compared to most of the competition.

I wondered if it would happen, and it has: ‘Toyodas’ with the Connect system will get CarPlay and Android Auto, while Toyotas with the Entune system have only CarPlay, at least for the moment--there’s still time for other 2020 models.

Really? That’s not impressive for a university of Colgate’s size and reputation; much smaller Division III colleges including Swarthmore, Pomona, Grinnell, and freakin’ Bowdoin have significantly larger endowments. And unless they want to end up like Sweet Briar and selling off the donated art collection and more,…

Frosted cookies are inherently disgusting; in almost 60 years I’ve never had one that I’ve considered edible. My great-great-grandmother’s (1799-1895) rolled-and-cut sugar cookies get dusted with colored sugars for Christmas, and more recently red-hots cinnamon candies pressed on as tree ornaments or Santa’s or…

Little Big Shot Super Nozzle LBSR-1. It’s possible that this is a knock-off of the similar one my dad bought in the 1970s and still functions, but it costs $9 or less and is a simple, effective, water-efficient and compact design made from a small number of parts, which I appreciate as an engineer. It goes from a…

Little Big Shot Super Nozzle LBSR-1. It’s possible that this is a knock-off of the similar one my dad bought in the…

It’s not just that they were built for freight, it’s that they are owned and maintained by the freight railroad companies, and Amtrak pays a fee to use them, sometimes receiving lower priority. Imagine if the interstate highway system were built and run by the trucking companies and automobiles could use it by paying…

Why no FWD with snow tires, though? It’s almost as if the journos were being led to a conclusion. And Mazda PR must be pleased so many of them reached it.

My favorite Neon memory is of the first-generation model, which was sold at both Dodge and Plymouth dealers, identical except for a few badges. The Plymouth dealer a few blocks down the street from where I lived at the time in Laurel, MD, had one that was proclaimed to be a Plymouth Neon on its Monroney sticker, but…

Well, most conservatives under the age of 50 or so were educated in the same bad schools they routinely decry. It is, though, ironic that had the North American colonies lost the Revolutionary War, slavery might have ended in those colonies in 1833; although had the southern cotton trade remained British, resistance…

After thinking some more, I realized that without the fake window that rear door and c-pillar is going to look like a 4-door Saturn Ion, which may have resulted in a panicked rush job “solution”.