Getting Otto into the car and kid seat also required a lot of contortion and unnamed Yoga moves, though it wasn't really that much harder than entering the car into the front seats on your own. Most of that is thanks to a pair of side sills in the Lotus that are about as wide as red-upholstered sidewalks and just as…

I think they were just waiting for Saab to keel over so they could snag the design cues.

Generally as far as anything even vaguely tied to anything we don't like thinking about, the flag in question is up there in terms of notoriety and ease of haymaking. It wouldn't surprise me if pre-edit there were some shots that did look at the roof, but they would have ended up on the cutting room floor. Because…

It would be really great if this were to end up on film... So please, get someone to do that.

I have to agree. Hanging a big giant radar unit off the back door just seems weird. Although, for moving the equipment between units in smaller or more cash stretched departments, a large portable hang-as-you-go makes sense. But a state police organization?

I love the black and whites. And I suppose I should partially recant my retro cred statement, but I hate being corrected on the internet. As far as the EPS would be concerned (which is kind of what I was referencing) there aren't many gumballs around. Perhaps one or two, and those black and whites don't do very…

Wow. Those are... bleedin' gigantic. We have a few retro gumballs in the fleet here, but purely for retro cred, not serious policing.

username: fastfinishes. Extremely relevant to 38000 miles in 28 days.

Just putting an opinion out there. I had a discussion with a member that essentially went nowhere and contributed very little. I applied context, and nowhere did I defend the flag but rather derided oversensitivity to such things when things are used in a context completely removed from any gravitous historical…

Or else what, exactly?

Eh. I don't usually but I knew where it would go. No preaching to people who don't get context. No successful preaching, at least. Is there anything you plan to do about it?

I had a chuckle. That's wiley.

MMhmm. See above about the context of the use. And if not, wrap yourself in this and enjoy the soft envelope of softness and such.

Yeah yeah. As I said. "With the public basically trained to make political and social hay over anything that could be construed as even borderline offensive." Welcome to being that person.

Now, while Bangle's designs have grown on me. I have to ask. After BMW, is he allowed to hate anything design related with any authority whatsoever?

It's just a case of a media company erring far too far on the side of caution. But, with the public basically trained to make political and social hay over anything that could be construed as even borderline offensive, it was probably the correct call. Or there might have been a twitter campaign and product boycott…

Foaming at the mouth. For good wholesome reasons.

Put that pitbull down. Double tap.

Gee Shep. So much car stuff it hurts. Glad my car has 120, natural gas, and the need for a Nest.

Steering wheels are sort of something-in my mind-that you have to develop muscle and tactile memory to get a good grip on, no pun intended. It's hard to do that in a week of media driving. So I give that a pass.