I’m thinking late ‘90s Buick LeSabre with the factory greige and a dark color along the sides to disguise crudely patched wheelarch and rocker panel rust.

He’s probably waiting for the Escape ST, being a Ford man

Two sales back-to-back, the red car broke down on the way home from the dealership and the couple in the beige car is already thinking they should’ve bought a Datsun.

FDR had a car with hand controls, before things like automatic transmissions, power steering and power brakes existed.

“It would be nice if I could sleep in a place where there were not cockroaches everywhere.”

“...she couldn’t seek help because...she wasn’t a senior Royal member and therefore not entitled.”

The whole Manta/Ascona line is what should’ve been the Vega. Use the round taillights on the Ascona sedan body and send it to Chevy, tweak the Manta’s front with a split-grille insert and add the Ascona’s square taillights and you have a Pontiac.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement?  Just rename them something dorkier-sounding. Migra McMigraface would work.

“... 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?

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”.