There’s quite a few, Trabant, Reliant three-wheeler, any full-size American car with straight-six/3-on-the-tree and power nothing...

That’s a different body style altogether. The car Torch posted is from the very early ‘50s and was made by Hebmueller. The one you posted was a standard factory body from the late ‘50s/early ‘60s and not a “Zweisitzer” by any means but a hardtop coupe in the style of contemporary Detroit iron with the same interior…

For years I thought it was post-WW2 since the cops showed up to free Flick’s tongue in a 1947 or ‘48 Chevy.

Weird, since Jalopnik is technically based in New York City (is there a worse place for a car site than midtown Manhattan?) but its’ writers are based all around the country. It’s surprising the banners have that much independence. 

Ford seemed to have been onto it, when they restyled the F-series for square headlights in 1978 they moved the blinkers back under the headlights;

I always thought it was a waste that Ford came up with such an incredibly distinctive headlight signature and DIDN’T use it on the Cop Victoria. 

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.