Golf R Variant. Invisible in Germany, plenty of power, reasonable everything else. And wagon. 

For that matter the brochures I’ve seen (I had the ‘82 one as a kid) iirc didn’t list the Passing Lamp as a freestanding option at all but it was part of the GL trim level for AWD models.

It doesn’t help that training at your own expense had become the norm and we’ve had 10 years of headlines about autonomous trucks being just around the corner.

In the future people will take the car in when the tires get squirrely.

I’ll give you one guess as to why they couldn’t shelter in the cab. 

The past several years before covid I drove from Burlington, VT to Wayne, NJ for a long weekend for a convention and (bus or train) side trip for an extra day in NYC. Gas prices had a consistent highest-to-lowest order:

Someone mentioned on /r/ShowerThoughts the other day that if NFTs were worthwhile the porn industry would be getting into them a lot more.

Maybe, just maybe, Dick Glandsky’s Nissan-Bugatti-Used Car Superstore still has a few in stock. 

My work buddy’s wife just leased a Leaf, the gen 2 is still FWD but not at all turdeggy. I was tempted to say it looks so normal there’s a tweaker with a hacksaw under it trying to steal the catalytic converter.

According to this article at Curbside Classic there’s no documentation for the Continental claim other than it being on Wikipedia, and the most recent factory vinyl top they could find solid evidence for was the 1996 Cadillac Brougham.

It’s a little pretentious calling their corporate PR operation a “newsroom” but other than that nothing new. 

I’ve seen exactly one of those that looks good. It was on a 1/12-scale R/C Wrangler body, painted up, installed, and climbing a curb with its’ charactersitic straight-cut-plastic gear howl. An angry little yapping dog of a Jeep.

This still smells like a “go-away” price. Usually you’ll see it on an almost-new optioned-up pickup or lux SUV that the proprietor of a BHPH lot intends to keep as his personal car for a while but has to list it so he can legally drive it on dealer plates. 

And Canada uses the American term (with the British spelling) because there’s a legal and functional difference. The UK DVLA doesn’t supply the actual plates, just the number and a set of display standards car owners are on their own to meet (functionally dealers make the plates, and I suppose parts stores offer…

I painted over mine, using paint normally meant for much smaller cars. Fun fact; Tamiya XF-55 “Deck Tan” is a near-perfect match for a 2020 Honda Fit’s sunvisor material, probably goes for any other recent Honda with a light gray headliner. 

The cinch feature was a brilliant solution to a problem an overcomplicated GM “feature” caused in the first place. Surely, Jason,  you remember they used to have *two* retractors - one in the usual place on the end of the shoulder belt and one at the base of the *lap* belt - unlike the industry standard of putting one…

Jalopnik already answered this question. 

She was tight with Christine too.

Any car with the gas filler centered on the rear of it, especially if you have to flip down the license plate to get to it.

The absolute opposite of clever space utilization. Cramped back seat, surprisingly small trunk, massive wasted space between the engine and the front of the car - sometimes the fan shroud would have the proportions of a 90-gallon drum, sometimes there’d be an open-air gap between the front sheetmetal and the radiator…