Hope you dropped the stuff on the floor. 

Actual out front Jim Crow apartheid before the civil rights acts of the mid-60's.

There must have been some McSomething kind of place around. Then the localyokels could only stare at you at your table.

He was driving a Honda Fit. 

Yeah, I’ve driven across the country with just FM radio. I remember the relief when I came across the college station in Manhattan Kansas. Looking in the low numbers for NPR often got the Christianists and Limbaugh and clones. I’m not the first or only person who found some decent sounding countryish rock (yay!…

Out of state plates. Noo Yawk?

I think the liftover height would still not be all that bad. Maybe they thought it was a safety thing like with a lot of cars around then. Or cheaper somehow. Or because French. 

Oh yeah those chain drive ones. Didn’t know there was a little hatchback version. So I read this:

When did those things start to appear anyway? Certainly long after the Dauphine period.

Yes, that was one of the usual totally stupid suggestions here. I’m surprised that the other ones weren’t that bad. 

Their second row seats don’t do anything. Just sit there. Also in tests they were rated a little worse for everything than the other choices, and I think the mpg was lower too. 

The Vibe is of course also really a Toyota though.

Cherokee/Wagoneers had Renault front seats (same as in a Fuego) in around the late 80's too.  

The fake shift points show up under hard acceleration. Which for most Subarus isn’t really that hard.

All Foresters and Outbacks (and CrossTreks) already have roof racks (cross bars optional). Outbacks are lifted Legacys, and CrossTreks are lifted Imprezas. Foresters (at least the top models if not all of them) already have an X mode for the transmission for off roading, and since 2019 it has several modes like a…

Because they were.

What about starry roofs and organ stop vent controls?

There was a big discussion here or someplace about leather, and car manufacturers like Tesla being all Green by not having leather any more. As long as 50 bazillion hamburgers are sold leather is eco.

Bolt doesn’t have adaptive? I have no idea, but it’s as they say the best thing since sliced bread. I wouldn’t buy a car without it (although I don’t buy sliced bread).

GM was also big into this kind of thing in the early 90's. No photos I can find fit whatever the requirements are, so just look up Pontiac TransSport (sliders and flippers) and Chevy Corsica (twisters).