It was a post-factory, but Ford-authorized conversion. If it had been factory it probably would’ve used the wagon taillights and a tailgate that looked more like the wagon hatch rather than using as much as possible of the donor car.

So, the Librarian from Pratchett’s Discworld bought one?

I can never get over the rear fenders on the 92/3/5/6. Why leave an orphaned cutline that looks exactly like the rear door shutline of the 4-door version of a car that was only ever offered as a 2-door?

I’m surprised to see a Granada whether Euro or American there since Ford, as you’d expect, sold the Aussie Falcon in NZ to cover that size bracket. 

Miata Is Always The Answer. Or at least it is in this case.

I like to say Lee Iacocca killed the Corvair, Nader prolonged its’ life. By the time the secondgen Corvair came out as a ‘65 model GM was already watching Mustang Mania in full swing, decided Americans really wanted their sporty “compacts” with conventional engineering and a V8 option, decided not to put a penny more…

Exactly, it’ll get people taking buses and hailing taxis again. 

Counterpoint; the 5-door Golf was THE pure form of the Mk4 VW. The Jetta had only pale echoes of details like the Golf’s swooping haunches formed by the parallel cutlines between the rear doors and the bumper/hatch/taillights.

Uber and Lyft would be on rock-solid ground if they flipped the script and defined themselves as suppliers to their drivers. There should be some ground rules set by the state in order to accomplish that definition;

And why are cops allowed to wear sunglasses on the clock AT ALL? It’s a major no-no in pretty much every other public-facing job.

The other issue is that if Ford had stuck to their original plan the Pinto would’ve been replaced on US production lines by the FWD MkI Fiesta by the time the explosive-gas-tank scandal broke. They intended on it having a 5-year production lifespan and ran it for ten, by the end of which they were practically giving…

What Stellantis needs to do to prune the lineup is simple;

No amount of mockingly saying “orange man bad” will make him not. 

You’d think by now the Republican Party would’ve figured out that actively trying to kill your voter base isn’t a winning campaign strategy.

No, Tesla’s already too valuable as a car brand to simply wind down. It’ll get sold off and there’ll be two Teslas; the battery/energy company which will be the Tesla company as it exists now and the Tesla Automotive Division of Toyota/VAG/Stellantis/Changli/whatever. They may even spin off the Supercharger and…

xIH is a pre-1987 Donegal registration code so it’s unlikely they’d be named “Andy”and “Bob”.

Because too many other people are doing that, and the resulting pressure on the used car market means you’re either forced to go older and riskier than you’re comfortable with or you’re not getting a car *that* much nicer than these used ones? https://jalopnik.com/the-used-car-market-is-setting-records-1844361943

Being discontinued but still available new at this writing.

There ARE good politicians, “they’re all the same” is what the bad ones want you to think because it excuses their bad behavior and makes good people getting into politics futile. 

There’s really only one option;