True, the GTI is great fun... when it’s not at the dealer getting stuff fixed. And it also costs more than the 3.

No.

Manipulating photos didn’t begin with computers and Photoshop. A good bit of photographic fakery was possible with film and paper. Dodging, burning, multiple exposures, color filters, stitching together prints from two or more different negatives were not uncommon. There were even commercial dyes for painting and…

I’m a boomer. I lived the first two decades of my life in Dimension Woodgrain. 

Oh, it definitely blows, alright.

They could see out of them. The cars had big windows and thin roof pillars.

Can you see out of it?

“Cool.”

My brother-in-law, Van, has a van, but no Van Van. If I bought a Van Van, perhaps Van would lend me his Van to transport my Van Van... but then he would prolly buy a Van Van of his own, and then there wouldn’t be enough room in Van’s Van Van van for my Van Van, too.

It looks like it is smiling and enthusiastically telling you about all the fun it’s been having playing in the snow. 

Driving pajamas need to be a thing.

Yes, that’s too much to ask. Interiors need to look like this:

Nearly as easy. My NB operated with similar ease, just two latches instead of one. I regularly raised or lowered it from the driver’s seat at stoplights. Like Unknown said, took about five seconds. 

Almost. 1A “skylight” filters and UV filters used to be popular for that reason. The 1A is very slightly pinkish, its purpose was to mitigate the bluish cast that sometimes showed up in outdoor photos taken with film cameras. UV filters block UV light, and appear very slightly grey in color. Neither filter is dark…

Bradley, you’re spoiled.

“Suzuki’s 1995 UT-1 Concept Makes Cold, Modular Rationality Fun, Somehow”

“...the worst thing about the holidays is the terrible music.”

Yes. This. Among the “accordions” I’ve owned in the past (not photos of my actual cars, but a fair representation of the makes and models:

Well, now that you mention it... um, maybe a little. 

“...I just like yelling at clouds and telling kids to get off my lawn.”