It kind of sucked in front of the scenes too.

See that’s why German cars are so much better. When my BMW had water intrusion issues instead of waking up the neighborhoods these weird amber lights on the corners of the car I’d never seen before came on and wouldn’t go off. So much more courteous than Toyota.

Well, as far as the Big Three pre-60's, it was often just only two actual bodies that they glued unique trim on and called a new model even though the sheet metal was exactly the same...

You know, that shape from the A-pillar back looks awfully familiar...

It’s hard to compare modern cars with things like the EXP though, because now it’s just the norm for an automaker to have like eight cars built off just two or three platforms. Everything is “based” on everything else so you can’t really compare by that metric alone.

Ford made some truly stripper models in the 90's. At work we have a ‘94 F350. It doesn’t have cupholders, a center armrest, or even a headliner.

These aren’t really gimmicks but my Neon had a lot of nice touches you wouldn’t expect on such a cheap car of the time, like a double start override and radio presets that don’t erase when you disconnect the battery. Also that thing had the best cupholders I’ve ever had in a car.

Someone page Torchinsky, I see squircles!!!

Anyone else ever been told that once you switch a car to synthetic oil you can’t go back? I’ve heard it multiple places and it’s bullshit.

Best I can tell the transfer case acts as both a center and front diff.

Back in the 70's there was a company called VEMCO that built a very odd IFS 4WD systems for Chevy and Ford vans. The transfer case had two outputs in a Y configuration and each front wheel got power through its own angled driveshaft.

“Created” is a strong word here. “Did some exploratory renders” is more apt.

Eyyyyyyy I haven’t won a QOTD since the Denton days

My E39 does it automatically when you go into reverse.

Someone already pointed out BMW’s Rest feature, so I’ll share that when you go into reverse it dips the passenger mirror so you can see the curb while parallel parking. A lot of German cars from the 90's did this, you’d think it’d be more common now that electric mirrors are ubiquitous.

Problem is standards for safety seats change pretty much every year.

I’d argue it was powerful. It made the same power and torque as many much larger V8s when it came out.

Jeep 4.0. A dependable ol’ lump of an engine that made good power and found its way into some of the most iconic and well loved SUVs.

We laugh, but I live in an area with a lot of retirees so the used bike market is 95% Harley. Once they’re all off CL and FB it’ll make actually interesting bikes much easier to find.

Literally every company made arms at some point for WW2. My dad had an M1 Carbine made by a jukebox company.