It's like 50s GM and 70s GM at the same time.

And you get a Free Magnet

This sounds like a classic case of an “Inverse Tracy”: You buy something thinking it’s in good shape only to discover it has problems. As in the opposite of gravitating toward the trash buckets like someone else.

Divorce is much more expensive than a used German car. It's probably best that you forget you ever saw this ad.

I speak for the wives.

Haven’t accomplished a damn thing in our lives? I once did that thing where you put a pile of coins on your elbow and swing your hand down to catch them, and I’m pretty sure I got, like, 75% of those coins. A lot clattered under the couch, but still. Checkmate. 

You like it that much?

Bears are a good reason not to do that. Don’t leave food inside a car overnight where there is the slightest chance of bears.

I’d be curious to know how bad it smells at the end of your aventures

Seeing this spillway several times as a child inspired me to never get within sight of a damn from upstream.

Damn, gives me the heebie geebies even now.

edit: I don’t remember the cage being a thing then, it was 40 odd years ago, and the thing is a remote corner of Oregon.

This is a good hire, he looks smart.

You know that Acura has seen some shit. The path from being driven home by a senior level manager to carting around meth heads and stolen cats is not for the faint of heart. And since it’s a Honda, it probably has another decade of human tragedy ahead of it.

Although the updated styling looks ok, especially that creased hood, I still maintain they need to update the styling on the rest of the car so that people on the street can tell the difference between this and a 2012 Model S during the all-important 20 mph drive by.

“You’re doing great, keep breathing. OK, I can see the tread now, give one more big push!”

and this is a thing that “Everybody knows”?

This screenshot messes with my brain

Considering that Page-Roberts doesn’t think front and rear crash protection is necessary for the passengers, I don’t think protecting passengers from the battery is a big concern either. In fact, I believe they are counting on the squishiness of the passengers to protect the battery.

the fuck is USP?

Great post as always David. 

If they weren’t meant to cook kebabs, they shouldn’t have put ‘Lamb’ right there in the name.