Because people would drive off with them still attached. It would cause more damage in the long run. 

I like the chin spoiler on your image much more than that clunky, Rock-em Sock-em Robot chin. The front badge delete also is a downer for me. 

Someone pointed-out that the Chrystler V8s of that era were truck engines, and they didn’t have much more HP than the V6. Maybe they should have contracted a Maserati engine. That would have added all the right sounds to the car’s looks. 

It’s as if they were aiming it at retirees who yearned for the hot rod days, but aren’t sharp enough to handle any performance. I can see putting the auto-tragic if you didn’t have a manual to handle the power, but this is not powerful by 1997 standards.

Someone gave Jay Leno a Lamborghini Miura in the 1980's. Sure it had a seized engine, but I don’t see why anyone would want to pay more than that today. Those things are a money pit to maintain, and handle worse than a modern Civic Si. 

This is a very insightful take on this. It’s no longer politics, it authoritarianism. Follow our rules or we will vilify you and try to ruin you. It’s sad that millions of people are dying because we can’t just get our act together and work as a society. 

Perhaps it’s the fact that they are not only underpaid for the work they do, but they are treated like crap, and advancement is at the whim of the person treating you like crap. I always contend that people will go a long way for you if you show respect. I haven’t heard many stories about that from the fast food…

I know a guy who admitted to me that he was speeding and lost control of his car, but told the insurance company that he was avoiding a racoon.

Props to you!

I call BS. You don’t need to swerve much to avoid a squirrel. Did anyone check her phone’s status at the time of the incident? Then again, maybe as a 19 year old driver, she was just very startled. Either way, this disturbs me.

Your key fob needs a VPN. 

As one commenter pointed-out, one fling through the dealer network can add several ‘owners’ in no time. I suspect this one was traded-in and then resold. I suspect only 3 actual owners. 

Thanks for the history lesson about Cessna tanks! Too bad they managed to create their own problem, and then push more preflight tasks onto the pilot.

What’s up with blended, door-windshield design? Is this car designed for Batman? What kind of visibility would you actually get from that? What kind of visual distortion?

I was going to guess water in fuel (didn’t the older Cessnas have low spots in the tanks?), but it sounds like fuel starvation was the reason in this case. 

At the end of that movie, did they save the earth or trigger the animosity that made the aliens attack in the first place?

Don’t worry, the dealer will find a way to charge us for the extra prep of the car we already bought. Buying a car is going to be like calling AT&T and asking what  your monthly phone rate is. You will never pay the rate they say you will pay. 

These are the VW Beatles of Britain. They have their rabid fans, and they are not in it for safety, performance, or reliability. What they get is a car with recognition even from non-car people, as well as gobs of “charm”.

The official term is “easement”. It’s your land, but the city has the right to do what they want to it at any time. 

It’s not “door wall” it’s pronounced “doorwall” as if it’s one word. Maybe that’s why it sounds un natural. ;-)