You’re forgetting the vinyl half-roof, opera lights and chrome bash-em bumpers with premium bumper guards!

I kinda get what they were trying to achieve with the new paint job, but to me it looks like it belongs on a British Airways commercial flight; it does not look like a member of the Royal Family or Prime Minister would be on board.

Excuses, excuses....

SUVs are so ubiquitous and the styling of most is so blandly similar that you could probably swap logos between them and 99% of the population would never notice.

They are now, not sure about 1985 though.

This post is sorta car related since the 1986 Buick Riviera had a CRT touch screen to operate many of its functions.

Is there anyone who DIDN’T bully Torch in HS?

Side story: I once played ‘yutz’ as a Scrabble word, much to the anger of one my girlfriend’s father, who turned out to be a raging anti-semite. Or maybe he was just pissed I scored 72 points on a single play.

In the late 70's, my dad was friends with a group of guys who got together on a semi-regular basis for poker. One night, one of the friends invited a ‘mark’ to the game, who spent the evening bragging about how good of poker player he was, drinking too much and predictably getting taken for every cent he had,

I’m still holding out for Mr. Fusion.

Getting lost in upstate NY with my then GF after getting off the NY State Thruway somewhere near Syracuse to bypass traffic, and stumbling across this tiny little restaurant with some of the best Italian food I have ever eaten.

When I was younger and money got tight, I would hit the breakfast buffet at the nearby Drury Inn. It was a simple matter of coming in the side door where the smokers hung out, which was usually unlocked, then walking up to the buffet like I was just any other guest, loading up my plate and eating my breakfast with a…

And what about Mrs. Butterworth?

You forgot contrails.

I’m more curious about the family of “little people” riding around in that Peugeot.

GM Iron Duke, amirite?

My Corvair is turning Japanese, i really think so.

Most LTL carriers go from hub-to-hub, which can range from a few miles across town to a several hundred miles, say between Atlanta and Charlotte, or Dallas to Houston.

“cleft in twain” 

The article also mentions the NV cargo van’s long nose—something Jalopnik pointed out back in 2013 and then again in 2017—as a compromise in terms of packaging, and a hindrance when it comes to parking.