No thank you. I’ve got some eggshell interior latex and a wall upon which it can dry while I watch.

As is Blue Midget from Red Dwarf. “griiiiinnddddddd” “It’s the gearbox, man. I’m telling you.”

P.S. If they had made the driver’s display instruments with Nixie tubes I would already be at the dealer waving a bundle of cash and screaming “TAKE MY MONEY!”

Bed is too small, the grille and lights are awful, the instrument panel is an abomination - it looks like a shade tree hack job where someone glued a tablet in front of the steering wheel and made it display the necessary information as a quick and dirty alternative to building a panel and installing instruments.

That’s better than the 2019 median income in the US... Not too bad for right out of school - at least by the benighted standards of the last quarter century or so.

Yes, visors that slide or extend have been more appreciated by me than any other innovation in the interior with the possible exception of inertia reel three-point seatbelts. The amazing thing is that it took so long for something so simple and yet so useful to be developed.

Conflating mouth and anus... there can only be one explanation. Musk must in fact be a Thrint who survived the galaxy wide apocalypse millions of years ago in stasis! Lucky for us he seems to be a Ptavv so he lacks the ability to completely mentally enslave everyone telepathically. It explains so much!

I think being forced to only drive cars made during the year you became old enough to get a drivers license would have more of a personal impact.

You shouldn’t be allowed to call 1987 the “malaise era.” Appropriate punishment would see the perpetrator condemned for life to driving a 1970s Chevette with an automatic transmission to learn what the real malaise era was.

My year too... problem is, I don’t think I could afford any of those cars now. I couldn’t afford them thirty years ago when they were cheaper because I had less money then! Most of the more mundane stuff that would be cheaper is long gone too.

I really hope that when you look closely at the little representation of the car on the instrument panel that you can see it has a little instrument panel on which you can see a representation of the car and if you get close and squint you can see an even tinier instrument panel on which you can see an even…

It used to be really hard to find that model on the website. You could do it, but it took work. When you found it, buried away on an obscure page you were told to call or visit a Tesla shop to inquire about it. My guess is that the government found out about it and made them make the option visible to the average…

“But I’m a notorious cheap bastard”

Because I’m a true retrogrouch I neither like nor need screens in a car. I am however resigned to their seeming inevitability now. I am still holding out a faint hope that there will be some EVs available with an interior that has a nicely integrated screen in the center, physical HVAC controls, preferably in the…

And a 787 goes a lot quicker (and is much more comfortable, with more tech!) than a J-4 Cub. I know which one I would prefer if I wanted to actually have fun.

It looks awful. I would be willing to bet the dash will produce a symphony of creaks by the time this thing gets five thousand miles on it too. Here in BC putting your phone in that area in the middle of the armrest brings you a decent chance of a hefty ticket too. I know a two people who have been ticketed not for…

The Pierson Brothers were ahead of their time when it comes to automotive design. They thought they were just trying to reduce drag as much as possible within the constraints of the base car and speed trial rules but in fact they were setting a trend for window area that wouldn’t become widely adopted by the big…

Cameras and screens as an adjunct to the mirrors can be an absolute godsend. I absolutely love having a backup camera. Replacing the mirrors with cameras and screens gets a hard no from me. The pictures I’ve seen (here and elsewhere) even make it look like the E setup doesn’t really provide much or any advantage in…

Yes: Stall-spin at low altitude - unfortunately not an uncommon way for a pilot to kill themselves. The 206 isn’t easy to stall either and with only four aboard it would probably be both light and near the forward center of gravity, making it even less prone to stall and spin. The pilot really seemed to have been…

I want something like that too. The 1990 Mazda B2200 (the last of the Japanese Mazda trucks before they became Ranger twins) was my favorite of all the small trucks we had. The Tennessee-built Nissan that followed it was a close second.