Interesting that the Chinese, like the Japanese before them, include sequences of characters that English-speakers would pronounce ‘sex’ or ‘sexy’. SX, ZX, SXC, etc.

I don’t have one because I got the river otter plates on both cars before you could personalize them, but the expense in PA is minimal and non-recurring, and something that’s easy to remember instead of a random 7 characters seems convenient, especially if you have more than one vehicle.

Do they at least need permission to use the trademarks? Otherwise I don’t see why some productions debadge products, cover logos, and create fictional brands if they can use real ones for free.

The Rooney’s only business asset is the team, and Three Rivers Stadium was publicly owned. I’m not sure they could have borrowed enough, even with NFL’s authorization to exceed the debt limit, on the team’s much lower valuation at the time, to buy a site and build a stadium.

The Simca looks more American because it was derived from the Ford Vedette, which became a Simca after labor unrest prompted Ford to sell Ford of France, and led to additional Simca versions. I found it intetesting that even in Profissional form it retained the 2.4l flathead V8.

I think that up through the 1950s wool upholstery was considered more luxurious than leather and priced accordingly, and it probably should be. So much of the leather today is a byproduct of the dairy and beef industries’ desire to create a secondary income stream from something they would otherwise have to pay to…

There seem to be 3 kinds of embedded screens. Ones that are mounted too low. Ones that are mounted at a useful height and the entire dash is bulked up to accommodate it. Ones that are mounted at at useful height and the dash is sleek but the screen must reside in a projecting pustule. There are two advantages. The…

It’s a reimagining of loose-pillow-look cushions, with more structure and pleats instead of button-tufting. I don’t know if I agree with another comment about the color, because I’m not sure what the color is; on my display it appears it might be anything from charcoal to silver-grey to pale blue, and I think it would…

The moonroof isn’t standard, at least in my part of the US. In fact, out of the dozens of Elantra Sports I’ve seen at various dealers, not a single one has had the Premium Package, which does include the moonroof.

They’re better-looking than a lot of today’s wheels, and were metric-sized specific to Michelin TRX tires, which were a performance fad in the ‘80s.

Oh, let’s get a grip and put on our big girl panties, why don’t we? Innumeracy is a big enough problem with the current regime. If every eligible vehicle (apparently 562,000) in the US were bought back and scrapped, it would still equal only 2/3 of the CARS program (“cash for clunkers”) in 2009. If all of them went…

FYI, the subject car is not the last generation of 3-door Accord. The 1986-89 still came as a 3-door in the USA. The 2-door was introduced mid-cycle in 1988 and sold alongside it, and 1990 was the first year there was no US 3-door.

FICO, specifically, is proprietary to the data analytics firm originally known as Fair, Isaac & Co. and more recently renamed for its best-known product. Everyone who uses them, which they do because it has proven useful, pays a licensing fee to do so, which is why they are generally not provided free. Other firms…

Since it increases the supply of late model used cars n years later, expanding their leasing business inherently tends to reduce residual values and thus reduce lessors’ profits when they fail to properly forecast the effect of their own and competitors’ expansion.

It may be a conspiracy theory, but I read some years ago that the ad agency did them on spec; Ford said of course we can’t use those, wink, nudge; the agency “leaked” them; there was uproar from usual suspects, Ford denied having commissioned them, news sites spread them for free because of the to-do, and Ford reaped…

It wasn’t all that long ago that men customarily swam nude at indoor pools because women were not present, either because the organization was single-sex or because the pool hours were sex-segregated. How would today’s delicate flowers cope, I wonder? In school we were required to shower if we’d done any activities…

Maybe it’s a trend. Mike Tomlin binned the Steelers locker room billiards, table tennis, etc. in 2013 after the 0-4 start. Haven’t seen anything about whether games have been returned more recently.

Initially read headline as “Severed Head Injury”, thought “well, of course they were”, then was glad to be mistaken.

You can’t build the Kia yourself with items you found a thrift store, unlike an old jacket and a BeDazzler(TM).

Avoiding problems at public universities is one reason why Christians attend private religious colleges, so I’m not sure the “it happens everywhere” defense is a great strategy. What I have been expecting to hear, but really have not, is that Baylor’s retreat from ties to the Southern Baptist Convention in recent…