It’s a handsome car, but I still prefer the Cougar of this vintage. This car looks better as a notch-back, especially after the refresh that had the angry cat logo in the grille and reverse lights. 

Yeah, the panel gaps are typical ‘80s quality, and paint ages differently on the urethane than it does on steel. 

I want one of those too. 

I liked the Capri too.  It’s like a Mustang with a little European flavor in the front-end, and the recessed taillights were a nice touch.

“ See? If you define “rust” using those parameters, then the whole notion of what has rust and what has “no rust” completely changes.”

So this is what the Frontier will look like for the next 20 years, eh?

Time travel? 

I saw one leaving the dealer yesterday and had a chance to ogle it at a stoplight.  It was a pretty handsome vehicle.  I would buy one if I wasn’t poor. 

I must have missed the part where you explain how they taste.  

Yes, typically if it’s solid-on it’s an emissions fault. Flashing light is more engine problem related. 

A minion wearing a gas mask with his hands in his pockets?  When would that be useful? 

Your lights don’t turn off by themselves?  You must be a special level of poor.  I haven’t manually activated a peripheral in years.  

The car can display all of that information.  IIRC there was a brief time when the Corvette actually did. But then you would be enticed to fix your own car and not go to the dealer with a briefcase full of money, which is the OEM’s endgame. 

My X5 puts a warning on the center display which usually is a triangle with an exclamation point inside. Then it displays in text on the top of the radio/nav display, both of which obscure the clock and force you to deal with the problem or reference your watch for time. Then it pulls up a graphic display of the…

Yeah, I remember the diskettes were 1.44 MB, but the floppys were somewhere around 700k

It’s been a while since I’ve had to do it, but it has something to do with holding the odometer button down and cycling through a menu IIRC. 

Or pull out your tire pressure gauge from the glove box and...you know...measure the tire pressures.

Yeah, generally if the CEL comes on and stays lit it’s an emissions thing and you can ignore it indefinitely ;) but if it’s flashing there is an engine fault of some type. 

I did when I just cleaned out my filing cabinet at home last night.  I threw away hundreds of them.  

It is pretty intimidating to get onstage in front of an audience at a young age, especially when the rest of the school thinks of drama as un-cool.