Are you saying those Navy pilots just took too many diet pills?

Iirc, he always seemed most proud of the Robin. He basically did that design on spec, Reliant hired him originally to facelift the Regal, but he hated the way it looked and was frustrated by how little he could change, sketched up some ideas for a totally new car, showed them to Ray Wiggin at Reliant, and it was…

Or, we’re dealing with a race that doesn’t advance technology as rapidly, because longer lifespans and interstellar travel means they have acquired a different perspective on the concept of time and process than us. Or, they slightly underestimated our technological level from the intelligence they’ve gathered and…

It was sunlight reflecting off clouds, and perhaps the pilots were initially mistaken in their recollections and could use some more time to collect their thoughts and give a more accurate account that is reflective of their current rank and career ambitions. 

And center instruments persisted on a number of economy car models for decades, because it cut down on the cost of making separate RHD/LHD versions. It just isn’t something that’s really been done at Tesla’s price point before, at least not since around WWI or so, so I guess people today just find it jarring and…

The Beer You Will Never Forget, marketing writes itself. 

Depending on who you ask, some people put the start of Gen X as early as 1961, some put it as late as 64 or 65, you're kind of in a middle zone. 

Probably because Monteverdi favored Chrysler V8s in their passenger cars, kept the commonality. 

Yep, he's 83 this year (was in his early 40s when he did that song).

I wouldn't say that, the original release hit #1 on the Billboard chart, the late 90s release only hit #60 on the country chart. And Daniels was born in the 1930s, so he's a generation older than the boomers (old enough to be the parent of one).

Oh, there's a couple different conversations in the thread

Yes, the generation spanned 1945-1962/1963ish, they were anywhere from 16/17-34 by 1979. Gen x were all teenagers or younger, and Charlie Daniels appealed mainly to the older Boomers and the tail end of the generation immediately before, not Xers. 

They do the same thing with suits, Armani Collezioni has nothing to do with the original company and has fused (e.g., glued) canvases, Giorgio Armani is from the actual firm and has an actual floating canvas (though even they are kind of over hyped). 

Well, yeah, but they didn't just debadge it or make the grille look more generic, they grafted the fascia of another, actual truck from a rival brand onto it. It would be like an insurance company during the front of a Civic onto a Corolla to avoid a trademark issue with Toyota. 

I don't get it, isn't that just a picture of the robot from Star Trek? 

And the Landspeeder was also styled by Tom Karen, the same designer responsible for the Bug and Mk1 Reliant Robin (and also the Similar GTE, among others).

And if these are the ones that made it through focus groups, I’d hate to see the rejects. ISIL IPA? MS13 Pale Lager? 

I wouldn’t, that’s just another version of terrible. 

Yes, at one point, many British car buyers were under the assumption that Ford was actually a domestic UK brand, given how deeply ingrained and invested they were in the country. I guess it became obvious they weren’t, when they totally packed up and left. 

Well, one of the hosts punched a PA in the face over not getting a steak, and the other two quit in solidarity, so I don’t think the BBC had a whole lot of choice here.