What’s next, NBC Brougham?

Another thing you could do instead of cutting the tray, if you really want a plastic model Civic, is to buy an actual plastic model kit of a Civic like this one from Hasegawa. Probably cost you about what a new tray from a Honda dealer parts dept would;

The problem is that early ‘30s luxury cars had BIG headlights (Woodlites excepted); the faux “headlights” are smaller, not bigger than normal 7" round sealed beams which probably made them a fail for the luxury look for the intended audience and throws the car’s pareidolia into the Uncanny Valley for everyone else.

Fiat offered the 128 3P in America complete with weird triple coffin-shaped taillights, but sadly only with all-vinyl interiors which I’ve only seen in black and saddle tan.

I would’ve been part of the first cohort of American kids to fully grow up in metric if the changeover had been completed as originally scheduled. As it is, I know the difference between 3 liters and a gallon as the amount of windshield washer left over in the jug after filling the car’s tank. Every. Damn. Time. I…

Maj. Margaret Houlihan, R.N., A.N.C. is a damn *professional* and a huge part of the  4077th’s sky-high survival rate. And she did it without the kind of downtime the male doctors got.

Insurance rates, most likely. I’m almost surprised the IIHS hasn’t already done this since they can act without legislation. 

There are usually billboards next to them. Always the same advertiser, and kind of an odd slogan (what happened to “Quality Is Job 1"?)

1st: At some point GM is going to swoop in and bail out Lordstown for pennies on the dollar with most of the development work for a Chevy Silverado EV already done and funded with the sort of venture capital that’s been doing the Fry “Shut Up And Take My Money!” meme to the words “Tesla of trucks” for years now, and…

It’s the news-desk format. They can use it to crank out one-liners in rapid fire. Regular sketches show the biggest problem with doing sketch comedy with full sets, costumes and props as live TV; if something’s a dud they’re stuck with playing it out for upwards of 5 minutes.

How married are they to keeping Ferrari in, under that name? If they go to stock subcompact crossovers Honda, Renault and Mercedes are in, but FCA/Stellantis would have to shift their program to another brand. Jeep Renegade Tributo Ferrari?

2-door 210s - both the 2-door sedan and hatchback coupe - had the little pop-out windows. Maybe the base model sedan had fixed quarter windows. 4-door 210s - both 4-door sedans and wagons - had wind-down rear door windows.

Cars aren’t designed or built with this type of impact in mind. I’m not at all surprised there was more damage than immediately apparent from an 8' drop going backwards. 

Time to start replacing Dodge Chargers, Ford Explorers and Chevy Tahoes with specially detuned Mitsubishi Mirages. 

It would’ve been even funnier if “Don’t Cheap Out On Condoms” linked to Jalopnik’s article a few years back “Just Buy The Damn Minivan”.

I would love this on a winter’s evening when I’m using my car as a break room but I’d also like it to dim, a lot, when I release the parking brake. 

I don’t hate it, other than the pointlessly scowling grille. If it’s that cross about being a Corolla maybe they *could* call it something else.

It’s surprising that there’s apparently no “all lights must work” standard in the UK MoT test manual that would’ve required manufacturers to, at a minimum, mask off and paint the clear-white lenses on cars with nonfunctional reverse lights. 

If only it went just as fast but looked like this;

Had to look up where Saugerties is, I had a vague idea it’s in the Capitol District but missed it on the first skim-through so thought this was somewhere in the NYC area or its’ burbs. Turns out I was half right, it’s halfway between Albany and Poughkeepsie.