My word, but it was a different time... And I must say, this is entirely unhelpful given my previously-embedded feelings of being time-displaced. I now have the immediate urge to somehow revive that kind of personal luxury where details and service and sending personal letters matter rather than the mass-produced…

On the plus side, they should be easy to acquire from the rental counter.

The Comprehensive and True Guide to First Bikes

Well, I used to sell Mazdas, doing the Lord’s Work and making pennies for my kids for the trouble. (I ignored the recent dealership stories because I don’t want to reignite that particular depression.) So here’s a selection of vignettes from that period:

Look, I’m willing to throw in my agreement (especially for the wagon) for the Lexus-Camry, but my question is one that is very hard to find an answer to:

Environmental conditioning is the worst, isn’t it? I have a legitimate problem - a genuine surge of anger - when I see a Tahoe or a Suburban. And I live in Texas, so every day is filled with these little jolts of fury. The epicenter of it all is the (~5 years) 2001 Suburban (in white!) which ~every~ family I knew as a…

And the Corvette owners that do drive them just brag about getting 30 MPG on the highway.

This beautiful example of nineties GM lux/sux-ury quote “”””Runs really good””” which is a reasonably clear indicator of having a check engine light for at least an O2 sensor and needing a complete suspension replacement. And it can be yours for a mere $200!

I don’t get Swamp Hand, but I do have some fairly ridiculous carpal tunnel. I’d like to join the line for prosthetics!

...Ungh! Front end changes? Eh for all. That rear treatment, though? Ohhh that’s gold.

I think I just died.

So the next big car design phase is Every Car Is KITT. Got it.

Missed the OP:

Stock photo. My sister got my dad’s car passed down and I was jealous about being stuck with the beater S-10 forever. (That vehicle, I do not miss.) Just the most plain-jane sedan version, because my dad could justify it as a nicer Civic, but still an excellent car that my sister and I both miss after some jerk…

I’ve technically trespassed on land to look at rusty vehicles a few times, and my route tends to get immediately diverted whenever something interesting pops up (one time I looped through seven minutes of one-way streets to drive past a beautiful Pagoda SL) but when it involves approaching somebody’s residence is…

So replacing the car nobody makes anymore for the only vehicle anybody buys. Classic.

Well their predicted long-term reliability/need to drive under warranty does reflect that...

I...actually do not have ad-block (I’m trying to be an exceptionally reasonable person until the singadulary happens) and they did not load. But still annoying. Perhaps the time has come for preventative software.

The 166 was always one of my favourite low-level cars back in Gran Turismo, and that is a gorgeous upgrade.

The look of that car is freaking me out, man. Weird Diablo/Mercielago/XJ220/Testarossa car...