When you distill it down to the bare essence, it’s pretty much “We just don’t wanna.”

1st Gear: The NADA always has the lamest excuses. Taking care of recalls would lead to additional costs for the consumer? Why is that, since the burden of recall costs are on the manufacturer? I guess that means that sled will be on the dealership’s books for an additional week. So, their position is “fuck it, our…

The “Best” is hard to say, as so many of the “best” are pretty hard to come by, and often (nearly) impossible to drive on regular roads. But if we take “best” to mean “most successful,” I think it’s hard to argue against the Jeep Wrangler. They brought off-roading to the masses, and they’ve been doing it for decades.

So was your Porky Pontiac a Bulging Bonneville, a Corpulent Catalina, or maybe a Flabby Fiero?

Bro, it’s totally your fault for loading that tailgate with over 15 lbs of groceries! Next time, put the soda and beer cases directly in the bed so you can avoid additional damage to the tailgate.

“So, after I went back to the hospital to get the stitches out of my leg from where I gashed it on the Cybertruck’s door, I stopped to pick up some groceries. Came home to find my tailgate is bent now.

Thanks for the history lesson!

My dad was in Amphibious service for the USN.

Well, I had forgotten about the Versailles. And now you’ve gone and ruined that for me.

Don’t forget about the Lincoln Versailles!  It was a gussied up Ford Grenada. So...some competition?

You’d probably have a better time getting this through the Panama Canal by loading it into a Panamax freighter than trying to book passage the regular way.

Damn it, take your star and get outta here!

The drugs back in the 80s must have been good if GM thought this could compete with, well, anything other than GM’s other, crappier offerings.

This Cimmy should have been left down in the well.

I’ll say it before and I’ll say it again. There should be exactly one criterion for graduating high school and being deemed a legal adult. And that criterion is demonstrating an understanding of how interest rates work. People can Google everything else as needed.

An additional consideration around emergency vehicles:

This. An AI-based approach to this could actually work.  You need a system to process a lot of simulated interactions and learn which ones produce the best outcomes.

***The following is in no way intended to indicate any fault on the OP’s part***

I’m trying to think of a business magnate who has so thoroughly ground his reputation into the dirt as Elon has and I am completely blank.

After Trump confirmed that Elon endorsed him “Full Throated”, it’s clear old muskrat will do anything for his favorite politicians.