As an insurance adjuster, yeah, eyes bugging out. And Texas is a modified comparative fault state. Oh, god, the pain. And a goodly chunk of those things are custom paint jobs, AM lights, modifications all over the place. It's like a nightmare made flesh. Or steel in this case.

I'm planning on going up to Bristow for R40. If it's a possible undeclared farewell tour, I'm damned well going to be there.

This song (and album) has been one of my favorites since I was a teenager, not terribly long after it came out. It has always spoken to me of a future that I dreaded, and one that was inevitable. I considered it an eventuality, but hoped I might not live to see it.

Being Jalopnik, I knew if I parsed the thread that someone would have already posted my answer. Though I am surprised to see a sedan and not a wagon.

And we have a winner!

Who is arguing a position? I'm explaining why you don't see lots of them. And, again, it's a matter desirability. Nobody cared about the Japanese car market at that point, thus no meaningful value. Japan itself was a trainwreck shortly after Toyota's founding (a little thing called WWII happened). When you get the…

Toyota might've been established in 1937, but they didn't start importing heavily into the US until roughly the 70's. Before then, American cars ruled the landscape with a handful of European imports running about. No-one wanted "Jap-crap" because it was tiny, slow, etc. Then the late 70's hit and gas shot through the…

I would call this a success.

And apparently to get their knickers in a twist when called on it.

I don't even.... o.0

And narwhals.

I think you are taking my post too seriously.

Like Octavian said, it wasn't even the glass, just the moulding.

Bent in front of the strut tower, I'd assume. If I remember right, the fender support is literally just that fore of the strut. The structural elements in front of the strut rely on the lower rails and inner apron. Been a while since I've been inside one.

Kind of trolling, kind of not. I can understand why it's not clear. I'm not trolling in the sense that I really do think the practice of anthropomorphising automobiles is silly. I was very definitely trolling in the manner in which I chose to express it and follow up in early posts.

It may be because of my perspective. As much as I love cars, they're little more than a collection of parts to me in most cases. Certain ones rise above that, but I see that vast majority as structural entities, mechanical assemblies, and so forth.

Structural adhesives are super cool. GM did some testing where they glued a quarter on an impala and welded one on another, then crash tested both. The glued panel held up better. Sooo cool.

I have no idea what a Kia Picanto looks like but, from the name, I would guess that Pikachu probably fits it.

We have a "Gus" in the family. "Gus" replaced "Ara" when "Ara" was totaled recently. Like most people, I call "Gus" by either, "the Mazda" or "the 626".

(The narhwal comment was perfect, and makes it difficult to maintain my Sam-The-Eagle-like disdain for the practice of appending human traits to automobiles.)