Shitty is relative though, that 5's performance was still significantly better than cars 10-15 years earlier. 

Well, the Mirage is at least capable of passing current side impact crash tests, something the Crown Victoria couldn't do (which was a factor in being canceled when it was).

This is just further confirmation that essentially, all new cars are pretty safe in the scheme of things, and it is increasingly a game of splitting hairs to force rank them.

I actually prefer the Longchamp, myself. 

In MG's case, it's purely because the Chinese market doesn't have much demand at all for sports cars. If their relaunch in the UK/Europe hadn't been such a massive failure, they might have replaced the TF. 

For Europe, maybe. For US sales, you’d have to get a special time and quantity limited DOT waiver for each rule you want exemption from.

Yeah, I never got the hate for the rectangular headlights, either. I think a lot of it was just a backlash against such a dramatic change to the standard Jeep after so many decades of gradual evolution. The Wrangler itself was frequently dismissed as the "Yuppie Jeep" by CJ loyalists in the 80s, the headlights were…

Its so radically modern though, its like what people in 1983 thought cars would look like in 2002. 

They’re vinyl stickers.

Your top 3 is at least the same as my top 3, if not in the same order. Timothy Dalton was tragically under-appreciated for a long time.

1st) is that what Chinese traffic cops look like? Makes our guys look like bums. 

Lexus was still installing cassette players in new cars until like 2010, so those are actually less obsolete, since a 9 year old Lexus is still quite young in terms of its expected useful lifespan. 

We might have had an unusually crappy VCR, because it took for goddamn ever to rewind a tape, the separate rewinder was significantly faster. 

I remember what a revelation it was when we got out first dedicated rewinder - the rewind function on the VCR was so irritatingly slow. 

I’ve never been anywhere that’s required that. I mean, there’s a space for it on the form, but if you just put make/model/year/color/state, they really don’t care. 

When you have the Kim family’s billions and the resources of a whole country at your disposal, policies like that become essentially meaningless. 

Well, they would have to do some legitimate massage treatments once in awhile to keep their cover.

Obviously a proctologist, the truck is a tax write off as a mobile advertisement.

Most likely the same way North Korea built their almost perfect copy of the W201 - buy a couple of real examples, disassemble them, and use their parts as patterns for new tooling.

Man, for a minute there, I thought it was a Granada.