Michael G. Wilson is one of the primary producers of James Bond, and not the same person as blacklisted screenwriter Michael Wilson.

It was on the back of one of my auto show programs from when I was a kid, and always stuck with me - a lot of Volvo’s advertising up through the 90's seems like it was inspired by the DDB VW ads from the 60's.

Previa isn’t mad you forgot about it, just disappointed. Doesn’t matter they couldn’t fit anything bigger than a supercharged I4 in there.

Oh, so *that’s* why Teslas don’t have AM radios - that Elon is a notorious leftist.

I’d go with whatever you find fun. That said, the BMW Z3/M Roadster is pretty reasonably priced (likely just a little past the bottom of its depreciation curve), and is a fine simple sports car that won’t require quite as much tinkering as some of the older British stuff.

Yeah, on taxiing, the pilot made an announcement that several passengers had urgent connecting flights to make, so please wait until those passengers have cleared the plane. The flight attendants (including the one wearing a DILLIGAF pin in our section near the back of the plane) did not get that message, and…

I still stand by the people rushing to get off the plane is a problem caused by other people who have no sense of expediency getting off the plane. What, lingering resentment at the old people who wouldn’t get out of the way and caused me to miss a connection and spend the night on a cot in DFW? Maybe, why do you ask?

Fair enough - I’m Canadian, so we’ve mostly avoided the theft problem (immobilizers standard, I believe), and while I don’t think H/K is up to world beating standards, anything I’ve experienced has been pretty serviceable up to about 8-10 years old with no major issues (both that my family has owned a ton of them over…

I, uhh, wut? Someone’s not been keeping up with the price of housing, I think. For that matter, the $10k car was largely a loss leader special you’d be hard pressed to find on dealer lots any time near a decade ago. Using the Versa as an arbitrary benchmark, 10 years ago, the MSRP on one including destination was…

Don’t forget the 10 second Supra that was pretty closely matched to a low-end Ferrari.

In a just society, everyone would wait their turn, and each row would clear in order. But in a just society, everyone would also make a genuine effort to expedite deplaning, either through moving quickly, or acknowledging when you should just wait for everyone else to get off first. I wait my turn, but I don’t much…

But what toy car were they trying to buy?

I think the Slingshot mostly exists for people who want a motorcycle but don’t want to drop a motorcycle. I’m sure you could hoon one of the factory Harley trikes if you really work at it, but this is fine too.

I’m extremely thankful my kid’s past his Blippi phase (although, the newer stuff seems to have at least jumped from awful to just screechy and mediocre now that he’s got corporate masters), although it’s swapped out for Paw Patrol, which is also nonsense (nonsense that promotes teamwork and problem solving, if I’m…

Eh, there are a ton of comedians with incredibly inappropriate material for kids who’ve still done plenty of kids entertainment. This is not the reason Blippi is awful.

They’re bloated and hideous, and just don’t look any better than their normal, more practical SUV counterparts. I’m gonna say it now, the Acura ZDX is the only good looking fastback SUV, and it’s all been downhill from there.

Building one of the best cars in the world, and keeping it almost completely isolated to a single market, for over 50 years? That’s wonderfully weird.

I don’t know if it applied to all years, but at least some R51 Pathfinders (3rd gen, the last one before it went all crossover) supposedly required premium.

A 3-seat hot hatch? Don’t ever change, France.

Not gonna lie, a special edition based on a movie where all the heroes die at the end is a choice.