I understand the time saving utility of driving and getting text messages and phone calls. But even if you have a robot voice to read you your texts, it still takes your brain away from driving. Unfortunately, multi-tasking is an illusion. You can't do it. If you are talking on the phone (and hands free makes no…

It's a wagon, and the fake wood counts as brown.

Like the one someone pictured above, that Continental is the restyled third year model. This is the better original 1958.

Not the 90's of course. Also the first one pictured is the revised flat window version, and even worse has a rub strip and aftermarket wheels.

Yes, the same mechanical layout as Citroen Traction Avant and DS, and Renault 16. The R5's unusual and actually very effective and space saving suspension design was also like the R16.

By owes a lot, since just before that was a section about how this was the third generation of the mechanical layout, I think the post was more about style/shape. The basic idea was around a lot in early 60's.

Renault made a whole series of epic cars. Like Citroen, they are of a mindset that just does not exist today. Both could have been a lot more reliable, but still....

Great film clip. And unlike my blue 1988 Horizon, an R8 can apparently roll with no apparent damage. (The Horizon came out pretty well, but that was it for that fab vehicle.)

Do not be deceived. That one is very customized including a chopped top. Here is the real thing.

Minivans have about the same drivetrains as a V6 intermediate sedan, but weigh around 600 pounds more and have a lot more frontal area. They are bound to get worse mpg than the corresponding sedan. If you can use the interior cubic feet to me it's worth it. I've had occasion to fill my whole minivan up on many…

I'm a minivan owner without any kids, so I agree. But I do think American minivans have gotten too big. Just big enough to fit a 4x8' sheet of something is as big as they need to be.

Me either. I've stuffed things like a small couch or dresser or bookcase in the back of a compact hatchback. Particularly with the short, small trunk lid on modern sedans anything not in little bits won't fit.

Hatchbacks obviously have some of the wagon practicality without the wagon demerits.

See, if you go big enough you can get a 4 x 8 sheet of plywood or whatever in there.

Roadmonster.

I always liked the revised 10 version better. Plus more trunk room and cubic inches and probably a lot of other things.

Same in San Francisco. The old trolleys used to go through the Twin Peaks tunnels. Those lines were changed to modern cars, same Boeing crap as Boston, with Market Street undergrounded and the surface tracks ripped up. They got rid of the Boeings as fast as they could, just like Boston. Meanwhile everyone wanted the…

The old Budds are the only NYC subway cars that are remotely warm in the winter. The thermostats on all the others are set at 55 degrees at the ceiling. I think maybe the Budds have a manual control. The Budds and the new cars have one long bench on each side with no front or rear facing seats, unlike the others. But…

A grille with twice the square feet of the radiator seems very unGerman to me, but then German cars have gotten very unGerman lately.

Nice photo. Those things, besides being huge, are also awful. But so consistent and unitary in its badness it almost crosses over into the Opposite World where it's super cool.