Vermont does it similarly; written test to get your learner’s permit, road test to get the full license. This mildly surprised me when I was 16 since the movies had always showed people (in California mostly?) taking a written test on the same day as and just before the road test. 

That sounds like something that’s exclusively a New York City thing. I get the impression there’s one or more mass-testing sites in the outer boroughs since they don’t want to put people through driving tests in lower and midtown Manhattan. 

Planes are the last places mask mandates should be lifted. A large crowd of people in a pressurized tube for hours with the HVAC on “recirc”.

“Will It Teenager”, coming soon to The Autopian. 

Area 51 looks good on a base Maverick or Bronco with matte-black door handles and silver steelies but not on anything optioned up.

Missed the call for these but mine is that Packard and Toyota overlapped on the US market for one model year (1958).

Dear Honda;

That base Rambler at least has a decently short snout for its’ time. The extended-nosed ‘58-59 Ambassador maybe.

It looks like a crudely molded toy of a 2010s Mazda CUV. The sides are too flat and high, the dash-to-axle (and hood overall) too long, the rear wheelarches cut too deep into the rear doors. Everything but the Pinocchio snout will be helped by black instead of bodycolor rocker trim, but not that much.

It would be nice if the demo car wasn’t the most boring possible color. 

I was in the same situation a year before looking at a Honda Fit. I wanted a manual transmission which limited me to LX and Sport (there had been an EX manual in ‘15-19 and I’d have bought one of those for the sunroof but...)  The Sport didn’t have anything I wanted - I could get an actual color on one while the LX…

Seats are swapped in from another truck, a Nissan “S/T” with a black interior. 

There are no, repeat NO cars that are “too small for police work”, only cops who are too spoiled to make do with what the taxpayers give them.

Erratum on the Geo Storm; only the 1990-91 models had the semi-concealed pop-up headlights, the ‘92-3s had fixed headlights which were those special proprietary extra-tiny sealed beams only GM used and only for a few years.

I’m not sure if it’s intentional or not but I love that there are only 5 Five-Timers’ jackets. That needs to become a running joke.

There was a school of car design, frequently seen on humbler cars, where clean and simple ‘70s designs were brought into the ‘80s by piling on plastic crap. I call it Kamei Rabbit Syndrome;

You’d be surprised how many professional truckers get by with, at most, consumer GPS that doesn’t have truck route or bridge height information programmed in.

It all makes sense, the pre-hatchback Prius is the pre-Urkel Family Matters of cars. 

They don’t “refuse to build” them, there wasn’t enough of a market for these to sustain them in the first place even at a *MUCH* higher profit-per-unit than the small cars that have been dropping like flies for the past 5-6 years. 

It’s a matter of degrees. Blocking a road for an hour or two by marching in or sitting down on the road is one thing, blocking it for almost a month with dozens of constantly idling, honking trucks is quite another.