Wake me up when this all ends.

So the name won’t fly but can we please have pickups in colors like baby blue and lemon-pie-filling yellow with white steelies *and white dog-dish hubcaps* again please” I’m so sick of everydamnthing being Fragile Masculinity Black or Settle-For-Silver.

Easy.

Maybe even put them on a separate road so they don’t interfere with regular traffic? Better yet, make that some sort of a track so they don’t have to worry about steering. And link a bunch of them together, so you only need one in front pulling the whole thing.

Aerodynamics are still crap. It’s a box on wheels. The new models have Air Conditioning, the old ones had a fan. New safety equipment is heavy. The old ones had nothing in the way of safety.

never go full wrangler. 

“In essence, Ford said don’t blame us.”

Looking forward to champions of the working class here drooling over the prospect of soldiers shooting the working class.

The old Spark is curious to me because it began life as the Daewoo Matiz, itself what was meant to be Fiat’s Cinquecento revival by Italdesign, and yet has become a “Chevrolet” amidst countless other brandings thanks to GM’s huge umbrella. That said, though your second-gen Matiz rental is still an Italdesign-penned…

So they’re repurposing a ship that would otherwise be dismantled in an environmentally friendly manner, and your take is it’s bad, just because it’s for a billionaire?

That worked so well for the Alfa based Dart...

oh yes I am not disparaging them as a necessary intermediate. I am just thinking that they will not be looked back on as favorably as omen other eras of cars. your example is good. 

Youtube. 

“Luxury is mostly stick-on shit” - that hasn’t changed, at least

Will we look back at parallel hybrids like we look back at electronically controlled carburetors?

Cars with 2 fuel types light on fire more than cars with 1 fuel type.

Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.

The USA is great at building things. It’s not so good at coming back and making sure they are working OK.

What the heck is with these comments today?

Agreed.  Really painful to read, at times.  Some paragraphs flow nicely.  And then the next one has 7 sentences that all have 5 or 6 commas in them, hiding the intent of the sentence until the final word.  As if Jamie thinks he needs to write in this complicated a manner to sound smart, or something.  Brutal.