Its about proportions and balance, an elongated hood just looks right, makes the car look leaner and more athletic. Economy cars are all about space efficiency and easy parking and other utilitarian considerations, with style further down on the list. A Karma is an expensive car, it needs to look the part. 

So, basically, something more like this is what you’re after?

Its for aesthetics. Long hood/short deck are classical proportions that just look right. 

OMG, that is freaking gorgeous. If that had a Lancia badge on the front, it would be worth 10x more. 

I’m guessing the side straps mean elastic expanders in the waistband so you don’t need belt loops. I’ve had a couple of suits done that way, but I think it would look odd without a jacket. 

Nah, it will be called either the Bronco Sport or the Bronco Connect.

IIRC, Delta Shuttle was the Eastern Airlines Shuttle, Delta purchased the operation from Pan Am, who had previously acquired it from Eastern. 

There's two extremes though, you also have drivers that will veer into oncoming traffic in the opposite lane to give the bicyclist peacefully riding in the plenty wide enough and clearly marked bike lane even more room. Bikes are no wider than people, you stay in your lane, they stay in theirs, everyone's fine.

Well, the regulation was put in place in 1940, before NHTSA existed, and at the time, sealed beams really were an improvement over the older lighting systems used in 1938 and earlier cars, so it seemed like a wise move. But, it was written in a way that blocked out all potential innovation, and was later further codifi…

They weren’t exactly what you’d call “volume” automakers.

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?