It’s like the French government has never met a French person.

So, are models such as the one that responded to the complaints about the other ad just persona non grata going forward?

Based on the number of people leading with “this thing is great at what it does, but it’s just so old” I fear for a number of posters’ grandparents.

Toyota, when reached for comment:

I see the old “rewind a DVD” joke has fallen on hard times.

Two laserdisc players? Was that so he could keep watching one while the other was rewinding?

Common sense?

Feel free to point me to the specific statute they’re breaking.

Ag plates aren’t for tractors. They’re for road going vehicles used in service of the farm. There’s no such thing as a “tractor plate.” Driving them slowly on the road if they need to is following the law.

It's a lot easier to get rich selling to stupid people than smart ones.

Unless there’s a big loophole that was just discovered, good luck getting anything on ag/farm plates registered for the road. If you get caught driving it in Michigan for non-farm purposes they get to fine you and potentially revoke them entirely.

The Manheim Index has really expanded a lot over the years. When they started it was limited to steamrollers.

The primary advantage is that bad batteries of any age are identified and removed from the pool. It doesn’t matter if your car is brand new if the battery is a dud.

This information is either wildly inaccurate, or excludes antique vehicle registrations. Source: On a whim my parents took their Spitfire to a Triumph meetup a few years ago and were surprised more than 200 showed up. At one meet in Central IL.

One step closer to silent autonomous killing machines being parked in every garage.

The bathroom door is because the sink doubles as the urinal in the middle of the night. 

My uncle was a rotund, joke telling, accordion playing, machine shop owner from the south side of Chicago. It was very on brand for him.

Based on my uncle, yes.

Huh. Nobody went with “a funnel, because I know how much you like to pour things!”?

This was just shipping it to the local store for a test drive. Not refundable, and no hard feelings if we decided it was a turd.