The Christmas Story house is an appropriate place to worry about diesel problems, a lot of Oldsmobile men were at the time the movie was made (but not when it was set);

“Note that you can opt to pick up your kitchen yourself, but this probably requires renting a truck...”

I knew the top comment would be “bbbbbutttt used carrrr!”

There must be parts of the world where the equivalent of a side-by-side is fully street-legal and there’s demand for 2wd ones. 

That would’ve been good advice for someone in 2014-2019 when small cars were still more widely available while gas was cheap but nooooooooooooooooooo - it’s only ever trotted out as an argument *against* maxing out fuel economy when gas is *high*.

Funny you should mention Aegean Blue Metallic, I wanted that for my Fit but in 2020 they only offered the manual Fit in Settle-for-Silver and a darker gray.

I like to say Ted Cruz’ pronouns are it/eww.

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.