They were all over the southeast. Wherever gas was cheap. We had them all over North and South Carolina too. 

Its so wild. I used to see these things everywhere in Georgia, and then they just disappeared overnight. Went to Oregon recently and it seems all the mediocre H1+X hummers ended up out there!

I’ll say this, I was excited when they axed the Buick Cascada. And really, any car in this same competing class (Toyota Solara). I thought it was a great thing, the world is finally rid of sleep-inducing roofless Xanax on wheels that has no business trying to turn the very essence of Scrabble into a thrill ride. We…

There’s somebody (well, several somebodies) renovating a house across the street. One of them has a *pristine, massively lifted* H2. It’s truly wild to look at. It’s tow hitch must be three feet tall from where it meets the receiver to where the trailer hooks up.

I’m gonna go with the entire Mercury brand. When it was finally shut down, they only made cynically rebadged Fords that weren’t even allowed to be luxurious because that would get too close to Lincoln’s territory.

Oh Tesla is definitely on my hit list to

I was sitting here trying to be an altruist and thinking “none - there should be a vehicle for everyone and choice is good” but you talked me out of it. Fuck these things indeed.

The Ford EcoSport. Who was the target audience for that pitiful thing? They could have just put AWD on a Fiesta and called it a day. 

Dodge Caliber:

If it’s a short one, sure! You could also maybe fit a T-shirt and pair of pants if you folded them neatly. And wear the same shoes again the next day.  Practical!

Fuck this thing.

The Plymouth Prowler’s entirely useless trunk is one of the funniest car design features I’ve ever seen. What are you gonna fit in this, a paperback book?

I am waiting for the Hummer H2's spiritual heir the Cyber Truck to be cancelled.

Dodge Dart. I sold some of these new about a decade ago. They were a POS from the start. We had issues with them while they were on the lot and it didn’t get better after someone drove one home. The seats were uncomfortable and way to narrow for an actual butt. The DCT and 1.4 Turbo were an awful pairing. The engine…

Future Me says the Cybertruck.

Hummer H2 (and the others really). Enough said.

Donald Sutherland is so damn good in this movie. 

I somehow missed this movie when it first came out (2005? Yeah, I had my first baby that year, so that might explain it....) and kind of avoided it when it seemed to get a rather lukewarm reception. One of my favorite movies of all time is Sense and Sensibility, though, so I finally watched this one a few years ago…

I am so sad this column is coming to an end. I love that it’s a serious analysis of a lot of films which often get overlooked or treated with disdain, and there’s been a good mix of classics I’ve seen, underrated gems I want to see, and some really terrible pieces of work. Another one bites the dust...

What struck me when I first read P&P (somewhere in my late twenties) was how modern a lot of it seemed. When Mr Collins is proposing to Lizzie, both negging her and insisting she’s just turning him down to increase his affection for her, it was just like the screenshots of texts you see all over the internet from…