Wait, are Mazdas made of particle board now? That's one way to stop the rust problem. 

Well, I mean, some dealers might assemble cars from time to time - weren't the last Rover Maestros built by a used car dealer in Ledbury? 

Anyone surprised the base model has cloth seats? I'd have figured customers at that level would want vinyl -  harder wearing for commercial use and more liquid resistant. 

Kind of like how the US has to import all its comedians and news anchors from the north. 

Archduke Otto was a great man, spent 60 years fighting first Nazism, then Communism.

Yes, there’s several reasons why that isn’t the case.

Well, Canada does have their own history with indigenous peoples, so she could have used that. But, then been completely out of ideas after one post. 

He ended up doing that to secure a stronger alliance with Germany, after the rest of the world cut off normal trade relations with Italy as punishment for invading Ethiopia. Oddly, at one time, Mussolini had been distrustful of Hitler and advocated a Hapsburg restoration in Austria as a potential bulwark against…

It seems like a smart move, but maybe they ought to hedge their bets and come out with an NEV golf cart and a line of power chairs and mobility scooters, too. Just in case this fails and they have to double down on their existing clientele.

All of those alternatives you listed will give you a better quality sandwich for around the same price as Subway, which perfectly illustrates Subway’s problem right now. I mean, sure, they’ve got the ubiquity thing going for them, but it isn’t like Paneras are exactly hard to find these days, and Jimmy John’s and…

Yep, that has to be a big part of the problem. They don’t have as many dedicated owner-managers who are in their stores every day, and have expanded beyond corporate’s ability to perform effective quality control on all their locations. 

That’s probably because of all the yoga mats they make it out of.

$2500 for a running, driving, evidently road legal car that isn’t crazy old and/or high mileage doesn’t sound too bad, regardless of the car.

The dealers at the preview seemed to suggest it doesn't. Though even the Wrangler's isn't what it used to be, what with the permanently fixed frame. 

I know, I’m not an SUV or truck person at all, but this Bronco, and the possible baby Bronco to follow is starting to catch my interest.

Especially since Ford has been selling a competent Wrangler competitor in Brazil for ages. 

You can have good crash safety and functional bumpers, but doing both and also getting good fuel economy is kind of tough, hence the auto industry’s successful lobbying against the 5mph bumper standard.

I had a couple of the current Escapes as company cars, not impressed. Sloppy handling, loads of body roll, bouncy ride, thinly padded seats with poor back support, underpowered, cheap materials, and mediocre fuel economy. We also had a lot of issues fleet wide with electronics and transmissions.

Big deal, I had this basic idea in prototype form years ago, except it involved a Roomba, a Glock, and some duct tape. 

We could probably put these back in production for around $16,000 a piece.