I mean, if this is a prequel to Wilder’s Wonka it sort of works. If Wilder had worn a wide-lapeled brown polyester leisure suit and super-wide tie to meet the kids in 1971, it would make sense for Chalamet’s Wonka to wear something just as typically circa-1950 but...that’s not the direction he went.

Is there a practical minimum capacity to be called a “trunk”? To me, a trunk has to be able to carry at least one of the following;

Wait, did you say tow a trailer once a YEAR?!?

For over six hundred bucks, they should send Bowen Yang to your house to smash it up.

“Noam-ad” sounds too much like “Nomad” which is Chevy from way back, so maybe it’ll be a good package for the upcoming electric Silverado.

More use of turbos, more complicated automatic transmissions (including CVTs), more  potential points of failure. At least that’s what I’m hoping it is since I have one of the last manual Fits which of course  is nonturbo.

Good point, it’s always the people who’ve made a lucrative career out of rhetorically punching down that whine the loudest about “cancel culture”.

Barris was the only major SoCal custom shop that was willing to work with Hollywood’s production schedule which is inclined to “hurry up and wait”.

Still not the least desirable Delta;

I like to say I wish I lived in an America where we had the Republican Party that Joe Manchin seems to think we have rather than the one we actually do.

I specifically called out the Kicks in the last thread for its’ combination of a ticking-time-bomb CVT and zero enthusiast appeal.

The interior is definitely in the “sporty-adjacent” column, my Aunt Betty’s ‘83 Escort wagon had the exact same dash and the seats differed only in having “DuraWeave” (knit vinyl, ~20 grit) inserts. Oh, and everything was powder blue. 

I mean, just look at the damn *ship*.

German-registered VW Amarok overlanding camper, in Vermont. 

To be realistic, a spy based in London in the early ‘60s would likely have driven a Morris Minor. Today, most likely a Ford Fiesta.

Nissan Kicks. CVT only and Nissan’s ticking time bomb of one at that, too tall to have fun slow-car-fast handling, too much of a lifted hatchback to be an off-roader, so zero enthusiast appeal. Nissan’s business model guarantees it’s destined to be badly driven and poorly maintained.  Most of that applies to the…

It must be some kind of Mandela Effect, but I swear the first time - and only the first time - I saw that movie there were broken hunks of red fiberglass surrounding what was obviously a VW Beetle pan when the Ferrari (or I guess “Ferrari”)was in the ravine.

One arcane VW fact deserves another - those styled steelies are called Lemmerz GT wheels, Lemmerz being the supplier.

Dodge Caliber Syndrome, the concept was solid but completely undermined by terrible execution.

So, not so much a “holiday” as an “opportunity to get people to sign up for their completely unnecessary app”.