It’s subtle, but Ted Wheeler (Mike’s dad)’s Pontiac Bonneville in Stranger Things. You never see him, or anyone else, driving it but it’s parked in the driveway in a lot of scenes. I’d like to think the salesman showed him a 6000STE but he’s not ready to move on from the Brougham Era yet, and won’t be for several…

That might be a defensible statement if he hadn’t immediately gone on a right-wing-media press junket tour immediately after the verdict. 

1. Paid $3.44 today down from a recent peak of $3.55. All-time highest price I ever paid was still ‘08-09 though.

Just under $50k is high for a “let’s try to see how much the suckers’ll take” markup but on the low side for a “we really don’t want to sell our one demonstrator since it’s a sporty car customers might tend more towards special-ordering and won’t without a test drive” markup. 

If you’re leasing, the best “hold me over” car is buying out the one you have for the pre-shortage estimate of what its’ resale value would be.

I mean, it’s not like Ferrari could’ve just gone with the project code. It’s F150. Tell people you drive one of those and they’ll ask if you can help them move next Saturday.

It reminds me of the running joke Car and Driver used to have about the Mercury Grand Marquis. “...still no de Sade edition.”

At least Peugeot doesn’t call their system “Full Self-Driving”. 

It reminds me of the BBC sitcom “Outnumbered”. I can’t remember them actually driving their Zafira A but it was parked outside their house in all the establishing shots, in the GM tradition of Ted Wheeler’s G-body Pontiac Bonneville in Stranger Things that’s always just there in the driveway.

Going by Lake Wobegon rules it seems that Catholic parking brake pedals hang a bit lower than Lutheran ones, while the Catholic release lever hangs under the dash and the Lutheran one is in it.

Talk of odd orphan-feature cars; a return to the “blackout” ‘42s?

I think until the early ‘70s the 4 DM/1 USD ratio was pegged.

FWIU the only reason Tesla and SpaceX has the access to talent they do is that they look good on a resume so someone can put up with them for a year or two and then have an easier time getting hired by a legacy company.

I know exactly one person who has a Titan XD Cummins, she’s into horses and the money comes from the family owning a Nissan dealership. 

2020 Honda Fit LX, no options but PW/PL/cruise all standard, manual, 25k miles. KBB range is $16858 - 20,351 from the low end of the trade-in to the high end of the private sale range. Price new in Feb 2020 was 16k almost even. 

Counterpoint; the only reason Internet Car Guys dump on the Crosstour is that it was lifted. The new Civic and Integra are not.

They also referred to it as “the new small Chrysler”. Note they don’t say it’s a small *car*, just relatively small for a Chrysler. It was a pivot from their policy for the Chrysler brand that they’d been advertising as “no jr editions” since 1961;

For years every time I went into Canada I would see exactly one Lada. No more, no less, and never the same one twice. Sometimes a brown 2106 parked outside a roadside poutinerie in rural Quebec, sometimes a full jacked-up mud monster Niva on a trailer, sometimes a slate-blue Samara in a parking lot in Ottawa. 

Might as well have said “It’s Pat (the movie)“ whose premise seems to have not aged well until you remember it which SNL-based movies to the tune of $60k box office on an $8 million budget.

I still want to see Tesla do a 180 and ship cars with manual transmissions. I’m not sure how to implement them in ground-up EVs that were never meant to have a transmission at all, but back in the day when Elon Musk’s attention-seeking was more “quirky and fun” and less “thank god he’s constitutionally ineligible for…