Rest in peace, Leslie.  We miss you.

Caddy should go with the ‘Real People’ approach, only with Florida retirees.

Ford (mostly) guy here. If Ford concentrates on making the best pickups, trucks, C/SUVs and high-performance cars (Mustang, GT), along with a couple really good BEVs it could work. It does for Porsche with the Cayenne and variants, and their sports cars.

Bill Ford has done a lot to rehabilitate the family name.

Rampant racism isn’t the norm anymore? Glad to hear it.

I drive my Healey 3000 5-6K miles/year, mostly on a long road trip of up to 4K miles (though probably not this year as my copilot is getting a divorce and can’t trust his ex around his assets).  But, the Healey 100 only gets, well, 100 miles most years.

Ugh.  But chuckleworthy.

(Dormant) Commercial Pilot here. Even most smaller towns have an airstrip, and an Uber or Lyft driver on duty.

Are the blue tires an option?

“... rear drive offered better vehicle agility...”

Love Brit humor.

“1st: Let’s take that bullshit ethanol subsidy and apply it toward the EV credit to extend the program. IMHO it’s a better use of taxpayer money. “

Keep your eye out for an Austin-Healey 100S; fifty produced and five still unaccounted-for. The one involved in the (in)famous 1955 LeMans race crash was restored and sold at auction a few years ago for over $1M.

“Could you imagine turning a C-17, C-5 or even a C-130 into an airliner?”

Thanks.  Makes more sense than ‘wind resistance.’

I have center-lock wire wheels on 2 Austin-Healeys. Wires are a PITA, as they can easily go ‘out of tune’ and cause the cars to shake, but nothing else looks as right on an old Brit sports car.   Trivia note: Wire wheel spokes are never in compression (think about it).

OT, but I have to relate one of my better experiences in automotive life. My BFF and I were on our annual long road trip in my ‘67 Austin-Healey (you younguns can google ‘em), and we spent the night in Roswell, NM (yeah, that Roswell). Went to a nearby huge steakhouse for a couple large but mediocre steaks, and when…

re: “Anyone who has had a washer tank/radiator end cap/overflow tank fail when it got brittle knows exactly what I’m talking about.”

Argh ... there is no such thing as ‘safety’ in a car, or ‘safe’ car.  Some cars are more crashworthy than others; but hurtling down a road in a box is never going to be ‘safe.’  Shit, sitting on your living room couch is not ‘safe;’ you could get hit with a meteor (or frozen poop from an airliner).

Nunchucks are totally useless for anybody but Bruce Lee and he’s, well, dead.