Well, that was rugged prewar construction for you - overbuilt steel cage frame faced in thick limestone. Cost prohibitive today, but makes for one tough building.

Even wilder, the B-25 bomber slamming into the Empire State Building during WW2 and the landmark shrugged it off as no big deal.

It’s the yeast you could do.

It’s actually ridiculous how many time Chevy Astro / GMC Safari is the correct answer to so many of these.

I have a soft spot for the Pacer. It was my first car, passed to me in about ‘83 from my grandfather after he couldn’t drive. I’ve always said that in many ways it was ahead of it’s time. People thought it looked weird, but 10 or 15 years later it would have fit right in.

I run the warehouse for a small brewery in Victoria, BC and what you want is an Chevy Astro Van. The thing about delivering kegs is that you run out of weight before you run out of space and as a growing business you’re always going to need to move a little more. An Astro can fit 12 keg comfortable with room for more…

Ford Transit Connect. The Nissan NV200 is better but might be near impossible to get them under $5k

RX-8 was a new platform introduced in 2003 (as a 2004MY vehicle in the US), with a large update for the 2009MY. The update was visually a facelift, but included a significantly re-engineered engine, different manual transmission, different rear axle, different suspension geometry in the rear cradle, different…

Didn’t the RX-8 come out in like 2003?

BL didn’t need dipsticks at all.  If it ever stopped leaking, you needed to add oil.

“Wow, amazing. NONE of the Citroen trucks lasted more than 3,000 miles and they all failed catastrophically! Congrats on the sabotage.”

It’s still newer than the Nissan Z. Might as well just put it back on the market. 

Why does one need or expect a warranty on a $2900 car you’d probably be able to get for $2k?

Exactly!

I mean we can talk about unreliability all we want, but this one managed to hold together long enough to put 140K miles under its wheels.

You’ll probably have to spend money to keep it on the road, but a running off roader for $2900 is NP all day long. 

My 2008 RRS with 180k on the clock has been in the shop twice in the last 5 years. Once to recharge the AC and once for an alternator. One of the most reliable cars I’ve ever had. 

Under 3k and runs? I know it is a Rover and can be problematic (understatement). But even if you get a winter out of it the price is good.

Yes he was...thought come to think of it, the John Birch Society (and I’m guessing the white Citizens’ Councils type) thought that he was a communist. 

I corrected that point.  When writing the article I admittedly interpolated the parties in my head

Eisenhower was a Republican, though it’s debatable whether he’d be one today. He wrathfully dismissed the States rights argument when he deployed Federal troops to enforce school desegregation, and warned against the Military Industrial Complex, a term he coined.