Similar story, but in the UK. Our first camping trip (family of six) and the only place for me to sleep was the back seat of our Mk1 Escort, which had a pretty fast rear window. It must have been during a meteor shower, because I have never seen so many shooting stars before or since.

While I’m on it, those cheap vinyl after market seat covers look cheesy as well.

British person with no sense of cheesiness apropos of trucks asks: why is a normal-looking aftermarket sunroof on this truck cheesy?

Maybe this will help.

We stayed about two blocks away from Katz’s and found it by accident without having any idea how famous it was until we Googled it back at the hotel, as we scarfed down unbelievably huge and yummy pastrami sandwiches and pickles. If you want a good conversation opener, check out the mind-bending quantity of pastrami…

After daily driving a Honda Beat for ten years, I daily drove an MR-S (I live in Japan) for about five. Both nice handling cars with little power, great gearboxes and somewhat dead steering.
One of my colleagues made the best comparison of the handling: “The Beat is like a snowboard - your are clamped in and turn with…

And:
Tail light set too low;
Top line of tail light looks like it droops rearwards.
Not to mention:
Enormously thick A-pillar;
No plan curvature in the windscreen;
Front bumper lower than body (makes body look like it slopes upwards to the front).

Thanks for the MT link. Terrific.

Farley inhabited the job completely—hanging out with twentysomething trendsetters on the coasts, learning why they chose their favorite products, from computers to clothes to cars. “You need to love your customer, feel their joy, understand their pain,” he said. “You have to get so close to them you can smell…

Yes！I Laft when I read that.

Raphael, if you want to know more about Jiotto Design, look up Kunihisa Ito, now a Professor of Transportation Design at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. His Facebook page is very, very much worth a look if you like beautiful design sketches.

I daily drove an MR2 Spyder for about 5 years, loved it and thought of it as “a slightly tubbier and slightly less powerful Lotus Elise”... until I drove it to work to meet my boss, then drove him in his Elise all day (his back was playing up), before driving home in the dark in my MR2. My route home was down the…

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When I first arrived in Japan, at the peak of the Bubble Economy, the vast majority of cars were white, to the extent that a smallish parking lot with 15 or 20 cars arranged in a row would look like a manufacturer’s customer styling clinic (besides all the cars being white, they were mostly late model and spotlessly…

I’ll never feel safe unless it’s a a lackey with mutton chop sideburns and a moustache, in a hat and galoshes, holding a red flag and walking in front at 4 mph.

You neglected to mention the other reason they managed to prevent the spread of the Grippe: the Royal Korvid People’s Railway being a holdout on 11 ft. 7¾ in. Adriatic gauge, which prevented cross-border rail travel.

Not an Ausziehbode. The previous generation JDM Toyota Noah YY minivan. It’s the two row version of a normally three row minivan with a 3-way luggage space: full open, double-deck or picnic table and bench seats. The table can also be used outside.

The cities and towns are generally spotless. I live out in the boonies in Kanagawa and the near-town countryside is a diferent story. Roadsides are littered with drink cans, plastic bottles and convenience store trash, not to mention flytipping of furniture, white goods etc. Even deep into the woods you can find…

For Land Rover Defenders it would have to be Jack Russell Terriers, but that would veer into quantum theory, a sum of probable Jack Russell states over time.

I used to be a specialist.