Different driver, serendipitous juxtaposition.

Sure, the snow might blow off your roof if you leave it there. But it’ll probably blow right into the path of another driver. Don’t do this.

Seconded.

Borrowing George Orwell’s idea of Good Bad Books, I put movies into four categories:

Appropriate screen name for this thread. :)

Another strange Christmas food tradition in Japan: Christmas cake is cream sponge with strawberries.

In his Facebook post, Kumakubo explicitly says that the gravel track at Minami will be less expensive to maintain. While the translation is imperfect, it seems that moving to gravel is a last-ditch effort to keep Minami open at all.

...so that all that is left is his championship...

In 1980, the team took both the Constructors’ and Drivers’ Championships — the first in a long line of wins that would follow. It fielded drivers like Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell, Nelson Piquet, Damon Hill, Juan Pablo Montoya, Keke Rosberg, and Jacques Villeneuve...

Chris Amon’s family, for example, farmed.

Kei vans are joined at the hip with kei trucks, which are the basic farmers’ workhorse, so 4WD is essential and easy to extend as an option on the vans. Besides that, Japan is mostly mountainous and some regions get a lot of snow, so most family cars and vans have a 4WD option.

I have a friend, now retired from Honda, who told me you always knew when Soichiro Honda was nearby because you could hear laughter. Any CEO who consistently enjoys a laugh with his employees must be doing something right.

“El Camiiiino!”

They also do a decent job of allowing you to leave the windows cracked wider but still be impossible for the ill-intentioned to get an arm in to reach the door opener.

All regions of Japan get constant, heavy rain at on time of the year or another. Those rain shields are on practically 100% of all new family cars.

My bad.

Or Tokyo Disneyland in Chiba.

Absofreakinglutely. The two photos reminded me, yet again, of the first paragraph from Tom Wolfe’s Last American Hero, and how spirit-crushingly drab car parks have become:

Brentford, QPR, Millwall, Charlton Athletic, AFC Wimbledon.

DeepL does much better translations than Google: