They need to learn to park their cars in  a normal parking space, TURN THE ENGINE OFF, and then go in.

The stock steelies for these are closer to wagon wheels than the spare-type ones on the prototype. Just a matter of painting them white. 

American J-car wagons were just different enough - real bumpers and a necessary 2" or so lip that the bumper was higher than the load floor, thinner C-pillars without fake(?) vents - that I suspect they were part of the program from the start* and Holden had no part in them.

Is that another one of those “just make it a damn hatchback” things? For some reason I always thought the SM actually was one. 

If you get into your Equinox and the seats don’t match, take a picture and IMMEDIATELY have it documented on the rental contract! You really don’t want Hertz to hold you responsible for that...

If anything it was the most apt fleet-pool car Bond has driven since someone at some Hertz counter handed him the keys to an AMC Hornet.

The Dart was launched as the wrong body style. They should’ve sent in the hatchback we ended up never getting *first*, sidled into the segment that way (at the time the Civic and Corolla were sedan-only, the Honda Fit’s a size smaller and the Toyota Matrix was on its’ second generation that had been beaten with the…

Vermont here. Starting to see a few show up. I’d assume I’d be seeing a lot more if everybody who plumped for one so far got immediate delivery.

Proof at last!

That cave picture for the Atlas Obscura slide makes me think of a recent SNL;
“See the cave!”

Probably a precursor to Musk wanting to go into politics himself. He’s Constitutionally ineligible to be President, he likely would never win the governorship of California, and as governor of Texas he’d be an improvement over Abbott.

Interior contain parts from two cars, one black interior and one brown one.

A Citation would’ve been significantly more expensive in 1980, a class higher with a much more accommodating back seat, and a new model.

Yeah, going from real physical gauges to an LCD screen is a downgrade in my book.

Go with an off-the-shelf Stewart-Warner physical gauge speedo in a pod screwed to the top of the dash, or go home

Wow, TWO different woodgrain treatments! I expect the Monterey in the background made more sense to FoMoCo product planners than buyers - Mercury had to compete with Buick, Olds and Pontiac so the woodgrained top-trim Monterey had to compete with the Bonneville Safari while the Marquis Colony Park went after the Buick…

From contemporary road-test reports, GMs generally handled better than Fords, with (standard retail) Mopars in between (also they’d been unibody since 1960 so not quite as isolated as the GM and Ford offerings).

I’m just disappointed the last one was Kenan and it wasn’t mentioned at all on last week’s SNL.

I missed the original question (is the interval between QOTD and slideshow getting shorter or am I just getting out more?) but of stuff not on the list I want to nominate rear bumpers scraping on  road crowns. It used to be a common problem on long, low, flat cars that entirely succumbed to fashion now that anything…

Same here, and now there won’t be any new episodes for something like 3 weeks because of the Olympics.