“... the checks dropped from $2,000 to $1,400...”

It’s interesting that after all that effort they ruined their own symmetry with the rear badge when it would’ve been so simple to put FIAT on one side and  1300 on the other.

Maybe instead of Brexit the British government should’ve declared a constitutional convention for a republic, and sold the monarchy off to Disney?

From a purely product-oriented standpoint I think it’s an opportunity to split the Cherokee (FWD biased transverse-engine compact crossover, call it Jeep Eagle) from the Grand Cherokee (RWD biased large luxury SUV, call it Jeep Laredo).

The difference is that sports cars, motorcycles and Priuses aren’t crowding everything else off the market. Trucks and SUVs are.

I think a Fiat-branded US Panda is more likely to be dragged down by the name than to save it. The easiest way for FCA/Stellantis to sell a really small crossover in the US is as a Jeep.

Is that, in fact, a cigar or did they paint the driveshaft of a Kadett brown for the picture and add the “smoke” in post-production?

More likely to happen in gentrified areas, or those where speculators have snapped up land in preparation for gentrification. Most places use gas as traffic-builder. It’s not quite a loss leader but the profit margin is a bare few cents a gallon for a convenience store. All the behind-the-counter “sins” - cigs, vape,…

Isn’t just about everywhere except the high desert already pretty much saturated with gas stations anyway?

When the ID.6 reaches the press Torch’ll need to do the same “Otto in trunk for scale” picture to see if his growth matches the size difference with the next larger car or indeed outpaces it.

Theoretically being body-on-frame it’s fixable by putting a new cab on in place of the crushed one. As a practical matter you’d probably find enough other broken parts on the way down that the repair bill would pretty quickly run up to more than the replacement cost.

Likely once it was known he was a Black car dealer, every Black person in town who could afford to buy a car and was about to do so bought from him.

For me the butter zone is right around 5" OAH. I bought a base manual Honda Fit because they never made a Fit Si (or even included an uprated suspension in the Sport).

I think GM still owns “Vibe”.

There needs to be a Saved By The Bell crossover, with this show’s fictional Mayor of LA meeting with Zack Morris as fictional Governor of California.

The thing I remember about Punky Brewster was that back when those things mattered it was in the Time Slot From Hell. 6:30 PM Sundays. If a game - *any* game, it seemed, even the weird niche ones - ran long, it was cut rather than delayed. And if there was something like golf or tennis that never runs long, my local…

“Can we call it Toyota RAV4? Honda CR-V? No?”

“...pulsars, the stars with such precision that they must have been built by Rolls-Royce stellar craftsdeities.”

The Aztek wouldn’t have been dumped on nearly as much without its’ double-decker place. Still might’ve been a sales dud - it fell between too many posts, with stiff internal competition from the nimbler, much cheaper Vibe and the actually-almost-trendy Montana minivan within Pontiac alone, as well as the Buick…

Backing into my carport which is mostly lined with particle board (that is, heavily golden-brown in color), I get a better night picture from the camera when I ride the brake pedal. Something about the extra red light from the brake lights increases the contrast with the dark brown stained exterior and green door…