I’ve come to the realization that a Cash For Clunkers Nissan Versa is a second or more faster than a good chunk of my fleet.

“There’s almost as much space between the top of the tire and the top of the fender as there is from the top of the tire to the bottom of the tire.”

I think when you decry something as an appliance you have to think about the stuff in your home that you’re not paying much attention to. I am not a chef, or really a cook. So my stove is an older model that I don’t pay very much attention to. It works fine. I don’t know what features it has but there are probably…

I would take that bet any day. I will wager you a set of tires the Valiant needs wrenching before the Versa. Given similar use.

It’s harder to justify cosplay with your taxpayer funded military equipment when looking for missing persons and rapists.

The Nissan Versa base model: Sure, it’s hell, but it will last for an eternity.

This is the thing that we car lovers don’t understand about the simple ordinary folks - they don’t care about cars. Like, yes, the Versa is totally unlovable piece of, I don’t know, a thing, that is perfectly serviceable and reliable, and unlike their Explorers and Blazers, it was new, a new car. With working AC. And…

Say hi to Fancy K.

Or perhaps a backwards facing LED strip behind the bumper bar to light up the grille, that way it could be almost completely stealthy unless it was on.

My first choice would be to just have one light, like this:

In the 60s it was common to have one fog light and one driving light. A round light to match the original yellow light would be simplest, or show you are being different by getting rectangular Marchal lights since they were the alternative to round Cibie back in the days of MG Mitten. Driving light on the driver's…

LED bars bahind the grille! Ding! Ding! Ding! Better for the deer and if you’ve got a PAO, why not flaunt it, it would look great. Everybody wins.

Looks fine to me...

You know how when you see a clapped out, banged up car you stay further away from them because they probably don’t give any fucks about hitting anything?

Actually I’m not sure if this works out. You could say that having hit a deer, he’s likely to live and drive in an environment with deer, and travel in hours of the day that deer are active, as opposed to someone who does not and won’t ever hit a deer. Second you can not use that logic to predict the future, Bayesian…

Ooh, that makes the remaining foglamp look like a monocle!  So dignified!

You could keep the original light and install an LED strip centered under that front bumper bar. It would be less obvious that the round LED.

Statistically, his odds of hitting a deer won’t change unless he changes his driving habits by driving on roads with less deer interaction or by not driving at the time of day that deer are most active and least visible.

I’m a HUGE fan of Mary Roach, and would highly recommend her books. Regardless of your interest in the topic when you start, you’ll be totally drawn in.

(Still gray, still not crazy, been at it for YEARS. WTF does it take?)