The difference is that being admitted to hospital in the UK won’t bankrupt You.

i dont think having a manual on anything but a dedicated sports car is any kind of flex. It makes sense at the track, for for pretty much everything else its a chore. Yes i get that you... 20 years ago could get better gas mileage out of your metro if the short shifted everything...blah blah blah..its time to become…

Sometimes I forget that the UK is actually really poor. UK’s median household income is about $44k, which is less than the median household income in the poorest US state (Mississippi, about $48k).

C7 is peak corvette for me. C6 is too generic looking. But I’d agree with you if you said everything you just said about going from C7 to C8. The C7 is perfect and the C8 is too much. 

I think this is the weakest easter jeep safari I can remember

Oh, and then there are the tail lights. There was a fad in the early 00s for “disco ball” tail lights. And Toyota jumped on that trend just as it went away.

The 2002-2005 Ford Thunderbird definitely did the “retro revival” thing poorly, using updated 1960s styling (by design) yet somehow also looking outdated for a modern car.

To me, it’s not a car in particular, but a material.

For something to age like milk, it had to be good at one point. The Chevy SSR was always a terrible looking car. 

Chevy Malibu Maxx: not quite a hatch, not quite a wagon. Right before the ubiquity of crossovers, Chevy was out there still finding itself.

The first gen 4-door Charger:

Andretti might have something to say on this topic!

well then I have misremembered!

This is not the scandal that shut down MWR, that was spingate in Richmond.

Wish they would have shown the interview with Ross Chastain explaining how he came up with that and decided to go with it.

should be noted that the MWR fuel scandal basically shut the whole race team down for good.  NAPA left and the fine was substantial to boot

That’s actually a pretty good idea.

At first I thought this was unnecessarily inconvenient for us Massholes (yup I’m one), but now I realize why they do this. It basically ensures you have insurance (which is required here). Not only can you not get plates without insurance but you can’t renew your registration either. Could you get insurance and then…

can’t collect towing and impound fees if they return it right away

So... thirty+ years ago. I remember gas at 50 cents a gallon too; not really useful information today.