I wish I still had the C&D issue where they covered the story. I recall them saying it started to unravel when a cop pulled over one of these cars being driven by Chrysler execs for speeding and they said they were sorry but they didn’t know they had been speeding - because the speedo cable was disconnected.…

“Jesus H Christ, that display. I mean, I know that Tesla does it too, but really Ford?”

There’s no screen in the dash - the camera displays are in the rear view mirror on both cars. They occupy about a fifth of the mirror area, on the left side. They have it because both cars are lower trim levels which did not come with infotainment/nav systems. Despite it being the low-cost way of doing things I…

The 80s is also when the Chrysler corporation was found to have been pulling crap like this on thousands of cars over a couple of decades. The cars would come off the line, they would disconnect the speedometer cables, executives would drive them around for quite a while, if they got in accidents (and some of them got…

We have two cars in my household. Both came with reverse cameras, neither has an infotainment system.

I like the way that GMC commercial in trying to be cute and funny unintentionally shows the guy as being completely clueless about what his wife actually likes and wants.

SNL stuff is blocked in Canada to name one country. Global Television paid for the Canadian rights so you have to go to their website to find anything. It’s usually a pain to find a particular sketch there but at the moment this one is on the first page:

krrhodes1: Yeah, but if you’re buying a new car there will almost certainly be similarly priced cars with 5 star ratings there as an alternative choice - unless there is something overwhelmingly attractive about the Ka (or any other zero star car) you might as well drop it from the shopping list.

But he was the sort of guy you would have a beer with! And he looked so presidential in that flight suit on the aircraft carrier in front of the “Mission Accomplished” banner! So he made torturing people (sometimes to death) official US policy. So he put the Constitution in the shredded with a mass, warrantless…

His name rang a bell... had to look it up but I remembered his name from the book “The Brendan Voyage” by Time Severin. He was one of the crew when he sailed across the Atlantic in an open wood and leather Irish currach, basing the voyage on those of Saint Brendan the Navigator. He grew up in a fishing village and was…

Like I said, I think this is the only time I’ve ever seen a proposal for a three wheeler where they say they’re planning on making it conform to car regulations - if they’re serious about that they must have some other compelling reasons for adopting the layout and I would be interested to know what they might be.

Let’s keep in mind that this sort of performance wasn’t unusual at all not too many years ago:

The only Avengers I care about.

I started flying sailplanes in 1998. I flew and owned a Cherokee 140 for a while too but I just found soaring to be so much more interesting that I haven’t flown with a throttle in my hand in years. Try to get at least one flight per week, preferably two and you’ll learn pretty quickly. The more time between flights…

They said it has airbags too.

I find it a bit odd that they say they intend to meet and exceed all the requirements for passenger car safety standards - but it’s a three wheeler. Unless the three wheel arrangement is somehow necessary to meet their performance and or cost goals it seems to be not the best arrangement. I’ve noticed that with pretty…

PRESS RELEASE: Apple to introduce robotic drone finger which will hover one inch away from people’s noses and will be equipped with a synthesized voice which will continually say “I’m not touching you, I’m not touching you” Apple predicts this revolutionary new product will compete strongly in the space occupied by…

Knipex “Pliers Wrenches”

I saw a few when I was in the UK last year. If they were for sale in Canada I would buy one in an instant. It got three stars on the Euro NCAP test - better than the two stars the Mustang originally got - so it should be able to be certified in North-er and North-est America too.