The 1984 Lincoln Mark VII was the first car since 1939 permitted to have anything other than sealed beams in the US. It was pretty ridiculous, but that’s what happens when politicians decide that a given technology is the best that exists now, and the best that will ever exist for all time, and proceed to write…

Didn’t Eastern Airlines used to do something similar with their Shuttle, back in the days when airlines used to be more customer oriented?

Well, I mean, procedures are procedures, no one is above procedure.

One more thing that came out of Lucas’ research was the 1982 Lucas-Reliant Hybrid-Electric Research Vehicle concept, again styled by Ogle Design (the last time Reliant used them, design work for their production cars having shifted to IAD a few years earlier). It used Reliant’s standard 848cc engine from the Robin and…

By the late ‘60s, all volume British brands were under BL (Austin, Morris, Rover, Triumph, MG, Land Rover, Mini, Jaguar, Daimler, BMC, Austin-Healey, Vanden Plas, Riley, Wolseley), Chrysler Europe (Sunbeam, Singer, Hillman, Humber, Commer, Karrier), GM UK (Vauxhall and Bedford), and Reliant (Reliant and Bond). Of…

It reminds me of that Peter Sellers movie where Britain discovers that they have a colony in the Pacific that they forgot about, because it was filed under “Misc. Islands and Protectorates” or something. 

Nissan would have had to be insanely, insanely dysfunctional not to know it owned additional planes, especially when you think about the other costs involved - staffing, training, storage, insurance, fuel, maintenance, airport fees, etc. And the fact that it is somewhat unlikely that Ghosn would have flown alone on…

Still could be leased to/chartered by Nissan, wouldn't be unusual for them to not be the legal owner of the planes. 

Ordinary Van is too suspicious, I’d go with Two Guys from Quantico Pizza. 

I’m guessing these will be marketed to introverts who think the glass area of the Dodge Challenger provides way too much exposure? 

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…