We have Mobile ID here in Oklahoma, too. I use it mostly as an insurance policy, in case I forget my ID at a crucial moment (such as in the TSA line on the way to board a flight; this actually happened).

You could get a stick in the wagon, too; but good luck finding someone willing to part with one for anything like reasonable money.

From what I understand, the RC has the front section of the IS, the mid-section of the IS-C, and the rear-section of the GS.

Yep. The electrical architecture is Volvo. The 4.3- and 4.7-liter V8 engines are heavily modified, hand-built Jaguar ones. And a lot of the parts under the hood are corporate FoMoCo components.

Yeah, CAFE is much friendlier to light trucks than to cars. I had mentioned it in another forum, but these days, your Buick Electra 225 is a GMC Yukon XL Denali. In fact, the Yukon XL is exactly 225.2 inches long.

The SS was not a dud for GM. As you pointed out, the SS was a Holden Commodore and effectively the reincarnated Pontiac G8 (also a Commodore, albeit an earlier version). By the time the SS came out, GM had realized that it was unprofitable to continue building cars in Australia, but had entered an agreement with the…

How about a would-be ad for the Scirocco TDI, from the Top Gear team?

The fact that the VW reps mentioned “truth and honesty” in relation to a TDI anything did not escape me.

There was also the cat one.

Yikes.

I love how it’s just over-the-top, but explains nothing about the car. Very 80s. Good pick!

Yep. A car is not an investment vehicle, and the number of stories where cars managed to rise enough in value to make up for the money spent on keeping the thing in shape, and beat the market...is infinitesimally small.

I was at a thrift shop and saw a very unsettling (racist) vintage pickaninny doll at a thrift store once. Not only did I question why they were selling the shit in the first place, I questioned why they were selling one that—upon looking it up online—was readily available all over the place.

I forgot about that shit. I was supposed to be at that event, too.

I mean, perhaps that’s true for mainstream cars.

I’m sure the delay in the 6MT Supra had something to do with the fact that donor BMW does not itself offer any B58 car with a manual transmission. You can only get the S58 with a manual in the smaller M cars (M2, M3, M4).

I remember when Supra was announced, people thought it was the dumbest car, because why would you spend 55k on a car with 335hp when the C8 was announced at 62k, and a Mustang GT PP2 could be had for under 50k?

That’s hardly surprising. To me, the I-PACE is cool looking and has unusual proportions, but it also doesn’t really look like a Jaguar. Most people would find it awkward. It’s not class-leading and is getting to be on the wrong side of class-competitive.

That’s a little bit like what GM North America did with the original Universal Powerplant Package (UPP) cars, which were the longitude-FWD Cadillac Eldorado and Oldsmobile Toronado of the late 60s. They had a semi-length wheelbarrow-style frame that carried the engine and transaxle, but then terminated at a set of…

Well, I wouldn’t blame Chrysler for the decline in Benz products. If anything, it was the other way ‘round.

What’s really funny about that V6 is that it’s the V8 casting with two cylinders blanked off. Literally.