I thought Chik Fil-A intentionally designed stores with minimal parking space and poorly laid-out drive-thru lanes to drum up the appearance of frantic business, because I’ve seen it spilling out into the main road at almost every location I’ve been to. It’s not helped by the fact that customers have to leave bigger…

I don’t think you’d regret it. In addition to being a load of fun to drive, it handles street parking fine, fits a full size dog carrier in the cargo area, gets 30 mpg highway, and is pretty nondescript by today’s standards. I bought it in Houston, took it with me to Brooklyn, and now I’m in Austin with it.

I’m glad y’all are back.

Red area of tach starts at 3200 rpm? That must be a diesel, right, surely?

I thought you could figure out my meaning in those two sentences, but from your rude reply, you’re apparently needing me to go slower.

That doesn’t give much comfort to people who will be eligible for forgiveness under a 20-year IBR *after* the year 2025, which is a huge number of borrowers.

I feel your pain. I went to engineering school and my wife went to medical school. She had a stroke halfway through residency and is now disabled - not *totally* disabled such that she couldn’t get any kind of job anymore, but she has no chance of becoming a doctor and therefore her education was wasted. You don’t get…

Speaking as a Texan who ate Whataburger for lunch, it’s a decent burger but the whole cranky nativist shtick isn’t funny. Also, Whataburger is now majority-owned by a Chicago-based private equity firm, so there’s that.

The thing that makes me actually hate the McRib is how close they come to an acceptable sandwich in a niche where there are no other national chain competitors and how deliberate the sabotage seems to be.

I just installed a VHF/UHF transceiver in my car a few weeks ago to get on the air with my freshly minted amateur license. What I did was expand the rubber grommet filling a hole in the firewall, and passed in my new wires, which ran directly off the positive terminal of the battery and the point where the negative…

I cringe in horror when I see those X frames. How many people must have been needlessly killed or disabled from low-to-medium speed side impacts that collapsed the passenger compartment?

If you really want to try your hand at it, good luck. MSRPs are comparably well-documented, and as pointed out to you already, even that isn’t in one place. Yeah, we all have access to anecdotes about the price of old 911s going up, but quantifying that, and controlling for the mileage/condition of cars sold, digging…

“mm” or “MM” is very commonly used for “million” in finance.

I friggin hate that steering wheel. Recently rented a U-haul that had it on a move across the country. You can’t get enough leverage resting your hands on the bottom because there’s no spoke there, and perching your hands at 10-to-2 is high enough that your arms eventually get tired. Gripping the wide-ass spokes…

I love those RTS buses. This one is about contemporaneous with one of my favorite games, Earthbound.

I’ve never heard that one. As manuals become more scarce, the remaining drivers are more likely to know enough about cars to know that coasting in gear as you pull up to the light saves a tiny bit of fuel.

I had to look that one up, first time I’ve seen a ‘61 Ambassador.

Did you grow up in Kenosha? Where did you live that AMC Spirits were ubiquitous?

You are right about colors. Those pastel yellow, green, and blue colors are the worst. I prefer the style of 60s cars to most other eras, but it was an era when people were inexplicably buying the most awful colored cars.

I think it must have been the owners to some extent - the same basic platform was used for the Oldsmobile Alero and first-FWD-gen Malibu, which both ended production sooner and yet seemed to be commonplace on roads for much longer. But Pontiacs were bought by younger people, I guess, which would affect the attrition.