Defunctland is an interesting one to mention since he talks about two things;
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McDonalds’ FRIED apple and cherry pies. They were replaced by the baked ones sometime in the ‘9os on one of those “fried food bad” health kicks - like anyone with a brain would mistake a fast-food dessert for health food! The crispy, bubbly crust was really great, and iirc they’d drop them in the deep fryer to order…
“The extinguisher, apparently one of the recalled units from a few years ago...”
“0-60 in 5 to 7 business days”
The mouse crap became a structural member.
Maybe the art director came from New Hampshire and snuck in the Old Man of the Mountain?
It really looks like the preview of the RAV4's midcycle refresh.
Which I ironically had to buy in silver to get one with a manual. I’d love either of those blue-greens, but not enough to pay good money for a CVT.
“On a refrigerated truck, that backhaul load may not require refrigeration...”
Counterpoint; Automatics - ALL torque-converter-and-planetary-gearset ones, almost all CVTs and even DCTs as they’re currently configured - are terribly ill-behaved. They commit the worst sin a car can - they move the car on their own with your foot off the gas pedal. The dreaded, aptly named “creep”.
As someone at the other end, working in the grocery store itself, I just wish our app didn’t have the “select a location” function as a popup of the sort people have been trained by nuisance ads to dismiss without a look or thought, defaulting to a store two states away near corporate headquarters and damn near…
I’d go with a pre-facelift Plymouth Reliant (with wannabe-Mercedes grille) as a wagon with woodgrain. You can fit so much Reagan-era psychological baggage about envy of other nations and a desire to return to pre-flower-power norms in this baby!
It’s actually pretty well optioned-up, a hardtop with vinyl roof, Light Package and full wheel covers. Probably a 318 2-barrel, with Torqueflite of course.
Don’t forget that Reverse is dangling red meat in front of the “California bad hurr durr” trolls.
They could also sue the Hellcat owner for repayment of what they had to cover. Either way, I don’t see him getting another nice car for a long time even after getting his license back.
Pretty much all Benzes have the same double branding. It goes back to the time of exposed radiators where there’d be the enameled badge on top of the radiator shell itself and then a hood ornament-ed radiator cap. M-B would supply a star hood ornament but you were free to substitute your own personal mascot or the…
Not too bad, the Aspen/Volare has potential. Most of its’ problems were first-year foibles that would be sorted on a survivor.
I wouldn’t rule out the right GM Colonnade either. The sedan roofline’s my favorite and it seems like the Buick has the most thought-out looks. Who loves ya’ baby?
It would actually be kind of cool if they had *physically* decontented it in the traditional way, either in addition to or (better yet) instead of the artificial range cap. Bare silver steelies, unpainted black mirror housings, unpainted gray bumpers, conventional door handles (maybe there are some leftover…