Duh. Now tell people in Colorado. 😝 

Concur. Here in Colorado, there’s not even a statewide prohibition on bicycles (e or otherwise) on sidewalks. When municipalities introduce such rules, even for limited areas like, say, a downtown area, there’s much huge and cry from cyclists. Unfortunately, this means we’ve got sidewalks with a mix of walkers,…

GM’s biggest mistake was not selling the Commodore in the US from the VB on. It was better on almost every empirical level than what GM were peddling in the US at the time.

The front axle disconnect on early XJs with the NP228 can be disabled if you swap out the TC for a NP229 which has a VC. Also, there’s a way to replace the vacuum linkage with a cable linkage that doesn’t fail as often and unpredictably.

Fun story. That particular Telsa Supercharger station is at an old gas station.

Having had a friend in high school that daily drove a Rolls, I’d tend to agree with that. His was a 1967 Silver Shadow, so it wasn’t quite 20 years old in the early 80s. I do recall that it needed a lot of routine maintenance, but nothing was complicated on it and everything was ridiculously overbuilt. And trim pieces…

Fair. I mean, I left liquid fuel behind entirely on my city car last year, so I don’t even have a horse in this game anymore.

85 octane gas and diesel are the same price here in Colorado, so, per mile fuel cost on the diesel is, ipso facto, cheaper here. DEF is $6/gallon and a TDI would average about 1 gallon a month. A drive-thru oil change on a TDI here is about $10 more than on a gasser that also uses full synthetic.

The recurring themes in highway safety:

You are the person this route exists for. 

A new Citroen SM seems bloody obvious.

The time is finally right for the Talbot Arizona revival.

Right? That’s why the story’s so interesting. It’s the ultimate manifestation of the chicken train test joke. 

Nope. Different hard points to accommodate completely different suspensions and drivetrains, not to mention different steel.

They have completely different drivetrains, suspensions, etc. Additionally, the sheet metal mounting points and thicknesses are different.

That Majorette is loosely based on the SD5 concept and various Range Rover fire apparatus vehicles, as opposed to being based on any vehicle that actually existed.

I was thinking that for a minute too before checking the dates and realizing that the photo would be about a decade and a half early for the Rancho, which debuted in 1977. The image we’re discussing dates to a 1974 GM do Brazil ad.

Funny story. The Simca/Talbot Horizon and the Dodge Omni/Plymouth Horizon look identical, but they don’t share any body stampings at all.

Except that the decline in quality and creativity has come since the Japanese regained operational control.

To be fair, wiking isn’t technically a word in German, but the German word for Viking is Wikinger.