My first car was an 89 Escort GT, then later I flipped a 92, and the 92 was a real hoot to drive for the time.

You could also get a Probe GT, or even an Escort GT with a manual if you were on a budget.

Ford had such a strange problem with the Thunderbird.

It needed to be soft enough to be personal luxury but not too soft.

It needed to be fast enough to be personal luxury but not too fast.

So what you ended up with was a compromise because otherwise it would infringe on Mustang territory.

So it was like the Thunderbird…

Torch, you forgot about the Super Coupe. Supercharged V6 with a manual transmission.

Same I nearly bought an electric green SLK with the supercharged 4cyl but the manual transmission was rather terrible

A car company with neither magnitude, nor direction.

Dat sponsor, doe!

The more we ignore her, the closer she gets.

My exgf drives a black explorer. I see them all over the place and it's double the bad feelings. Either it's her or a cop about to give me a ticket.

I’m a little uncomfortable with this as well. The notion of a sovereign wealth fun buying up companies always brings up issues, as sovereign wealth funds are not just any institutional investors, they’re controlled by governments. And it’s one thing if that’s, say, the government of Norway (another country that has a…

Grimes never had the benefit of Johnny Marr to make her not sound like shit.

Right after the election, my father wrote me an email where he went on about all of Hillary’s horrible security breaches, and then said, of That Asshole, that “he would never do anything to harm this country or its security.”

I see they’ve reanimated Conway to battle Omarosa.

No.

Exactly. If ,SOMEHOW, I was able to record in a SCIF - I would be having serious conversations with folks who have no sense of humor about that. 

For how many decades have the Russians and others wanted to get recordings from inside the WH via a variety of means and it turns out all they had to do was get a couple of attention seekers hired and fired to do it for them.

The media is obsessed with turning every Democratic primary into Clinton vs Sanders regardless of the history or the actual positions of the people running.

She is pretty far left by most definitions. 

Yeah, I saw local journalists from MI on twitter that were surprised that she was being spun as the “centrist/establishment” candidate because she was considered pretty far left up to last year.  She’s for a $15 minimum wage, free tech school and two year college, expanding medicare, protecting DACA, etc.