It could be my SE Michigan accent combined with the fact that the engineers who developed the voice recognition system in my '14 Ford Fiesta are likely also from the same part of the country (Ford HQ is only a short trip west on I-94, after all), but I have yet to have a problem with voice recognition. At worst, if I…

I was mainly excited about the fact that a roughly translated the Français in my head into enough English to puzzle out what the directive said, and was reasonably correct when I scrolled down and saw that there was a translation. :-D

I really thought it was based on a Ford Probe at first glance.

So, you like-a da jus?

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Maybe I'm missing something, but I can only remember one episode that showed a male inmate at all, that being episode 1 of season 2. Is this "journalist" really basing his opinion of how the show portrays male prisoners on a few minutes of one episode? Has he seen any other episodes? Or is he assuming that the entire…

Damn. Of course my Fiesta is a 1.6L manual.

I average 34 MPG in my 2014 Fiesta SE manual. That's with almost entirely freeway driving. I've been able to get 48 MPG once while being very, very careful, but my average is lower than the sticker. I suppose that Ford will contact me by mail?

Sealed beams are definitely up there for me. My family moved to the US from Germany in 1988. We brought our '79 Mercedes 280SE with us, and in order to make it legal for American roads, they replaced the perfectly usable, good looking halogen headlights with a bodged together fitment of two-a-side sealed beams in an…

Last weekend I rented a FIAT 500. It had Bluetooth that was only good for phone calls, and the AUX input was inside the glove box, so the only way to play music from your non-Apple device would be to leave the glove box open while driving and use a long cable. I see that someone sells a Bluetooth dongle that plugs…

I was looking at buying a 500, and I was flabbergasted that the spare tire was a $450 option!??! When the fuck did a spare tire become an optional extra? Does it at least come with a jack and a lug wrench? Or do we have to provide that most basic of equipment ourselves as well? Is FIAT providing roadside assistance to…

Of all the small annoyances (like blank buttons that serve no purpose, and clocks in place of a tachometer on a car with a manual transmission), the one that sticks out to me is the power windows on the Dodge Neon that only opened the front windows. You know, the ones that you can easily reach from the driver's seat?

As a VW Caddy owner, I have a very, very hard time thinking of a Chevy Silverado as a "trucklet". :-P

Not to bring up a zombie thread, but I was looking through my notifications and realized that I hadn't properly answered you. Seeing as there's no way to send a private message via Kinja, the fact that this thread is rather old means that it's not quite as public.

Hooters is obviously terrible in just about every way to begin with (I'll admit that they do actually have decent wings. At least they weren't bad the last time I had them over a decade ago), but the fact that they actively stamp out any form of individuality in their employees is particularly vexing to me. Dress code…

I've dated a few women who smiled 24/7. It was absolutely maddening. I could never tell what mood they were experiencing, so I never knew how I was supposed to act. I'd much rather be in a relationship with an actual human being who will express themselves, not just plaster on a fake smile. To be fair, one of the…

I'm sure that the diesel vanagon was even slower. They have a rep for being so slow that they're actually dangerous to drive on the freeway.

It was a Westphalia Eurovan, and it was definitely over 30 seconds. Maybe not 37,but maybe 34 or something. This was in the mid 90's.

Let me know the next time you're in Detroit, and it's a date. :-P