Maybe more plastic cladding than this.

They learned that scare tactics (lack of masculinity) works a lot better than logic.  You just need Dennis Leary shaming you in commercials every 4 minutes.

I was thinking that too.  I thought if a model sold north of 30,000 units it was considered successful.  120,000 should be a home run.

Holy shit, I totally forgot about the Contour, but I remember I liked them when I worked at a used car lot in high school.  Did they just evaporate into thin air?

I’m starting to see more and more Chargers show up in our local police fleets.

I feel the same way after we bought a used Audi S5.  I couldn’t believe the difference.

I’m always amazed when I hear people (Americans) that are just flabbergasted about spending more for a smaller, high quality vehicle when you “can get an F-150 for that!” I don’t know why we are ingrained to equate size with value. Is this the fallout from McDonald’s and their Supersizing campaign? 

What is “American-ness” in cars?  Fat butt seats, 25 cup holders and chrome rims?

Commas are h,ard.

It’s like the self-cleaning turns at Bristol Motor Speedway.

I actually thought Bradley’s take was pretty gentle and balanced. I would have been tempted to just say these idiots deserve what’s coming to them for their wanton refusal to accept basic reality. Bradley said if they insist on going, he hopes they take the necessary precautions to mitigate virus transmission and that…

What if we lifted it a couple inches and glued on some “rugged plastic cladding” along the bottom?

This article just reminds me of Chris Hardwick’s bit about how corn is America’s shag carpet.  He talks about if you ever wake up in the middle of the night in a panic yelling, “We’re going to run out of corn!”  No, we’re fine.

I know nothing about agriculture, but I know an ear of corn is dirt cheap. What? 25 cents an ear retail at the grocery store after several middlemen and transportation costs? I was raising an eyebrow that farmers would be “bankrupted” if they couldn’t plant right up to the edge of the road. If your margins are that…

Those are future organ donors.  They are doing the community a service.

I wanted one of these when I was 8 solely because of the taillights.

Even as a kid I hated the minivan version and loved the louvered hatch/coupe version.

I guess you’re paying for the transporter fees across the country and re-licensing it for New York? Which is kind of ironic for me if I were to buy it because I would have to transport it back to California and get new California plates again.