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6/24/21

They’re looking at how Mac and Me gets treated in hindsight “yeah it’s a cheesy bald-faced ripoff of E.T. stuffed nose-to-tail with product placement...but they cast an actor with a disability in the lead role” and tried to put their own polish of social redemption to their cheesy bald-faced ripoff of Get Out.

6/23/21

In that case the diagnosis is “ein Stueck Scheisse.”

6/22/21

It’s Matt the Radar Technician’s car.

6/21/21

I’d seen the full brochure uploaded to http://storm.oldcarmanualproject.com/ too, it likens every part of the car to some or another piece of fine Italian craftsmanship, because that’s how Lancia defined themselves in the days before they sold rebadged Chryslers.

6/21/21

Possibly tax-deductible as a donation to the Lane Museum, if not for Jason then for Spanfeller. And *someone’s* gotta drive it from the Port of Charleston to Nashville, and that would involve going right past Jason’s home base in Chapel Hill where any needed adjustments could be made since he has Beetle tools and…

6/20/21

It sounds like a one-joke concept and they already told the joke.

6/20/21

That’s as may be, but there’s *no* reason to loosen the laws regarding it.

6/19/21

I still say she’d have beaten Clarkson’s Jag time in a left-hand drive Transit. I can’t think of any other reasons for bringing a right-hand drive van all the way from England for a German to drive in Germany than the TG guys trying to tilt things in their favor.

6/17/21

In the early 80s my aunt had a ‘75-77 Town & Country wagon, in this exact blue, and had a free pass to the Lake Champlain ferries for her car and anyone in it (she worked in their back office).

6/17/21

Nice pick @cousy_dj! I was born in ‘74 and when this question comes up I usually go Beetle, or for a Colonnade sedan like this 4 door/455/4-speed Grand Am;

6/16/21

Medallion and Premier most likely.

6/16/21

Or, looking at Jack Dylan Grazer’s IMDb page, We Are Who We Are meets Scales.

6/16/21

1st (sort of); It’s amazing how much that Bronco in the lead pic looks like a Lego toy of a Bronco Sport.

6/16/21

Disney’s given us two openly gay kids/teens so far, both in TV series (not as China-dependent) and both supporting characters, Cyrus in Andi Mack and Mark in The Conners.

6/15/21

Another detail about those taillights, Hyundai-Kia reused them on the final facelift of that generation Sedona after the Entourage was gone.

6/14/21

What’s this “we?” Time and again I see it coming down to the most conservative Democrat in the Senate obstructing progressive change because he’s having so much fun playing de facto prime minister. Before Manchin it was Joe Lieberman.

6/13/21

Mine went to Latin honors a few years ago, a theoretically unlimited nuber of students can graduate magna/summa cum laude if they meet the standard. I’m not sure how they choose who gets to make the speech at graduation.

6/12/21

The F150 comes as a regular cab/shortbed (6' box), a rare configuration nowadays but the “base” one.

6/12/21

And they avoided the temptation to come up with a catchy acronym that’s spoiled when it’s no longer luxury-division-exclusive and filters down to the mass-market brand. If anything “Toyota Teammate” has a better ring to it because of the alliteration.

6/12/21

“Only” a full ashtray that had been full the entire time I owned the car. It was on the back of the console for the rear passengers, and I didn’t even know it was there. (who the hell thought passengers crammed in the back of a 2-door Geo Metro needed an ashtray!?!) So that’s why it still reeked so bad on warm, wet…