They specifically chose a neighborhood in Vilnius that still has a high concentration of Soviet prefab concrete apartment blocks from the 1970s, which are basically identical to the ones in Pripyat. I read that the director wasn’t happy about the modern windows and patio enclosures added over the years, or aging/darken…

You need to if you want the car to actually look attractive, which is important for something that’s supposed to be an aspirational choice beyond pure utility. 

It sounds to me like she makes space available for food trucks (or something like a food truck), since, obviously, being able to offer food makes people a lot more willing to come to her bar and spend time there. Likely, she either doesn’t have a kitchen or doesn’t have a license to operate as a restaurant herself.

That’s pretty different though, you’re sitting at the bar eating food as a paying customer, not just nursing a glass of free tap water for an hour. 

It was pretty terrible, but it was early enough in the Zombie Simpsons era that a few decent lines still made it through.

I get it if we’re talking about multi-use bathrooms that can accommodate multiple people at a time, but a single person bathroom with a locking door? What does it matter? So there can be a line of women around the corner waiting their turn, while the other one sits totally empty (and vice versa)? Totally inefficient. 

The trouble is a lot of the cloth put in cars nowadays is also very cheap feeling and looking, coarse and scratchy instead of soft and luxuriant. I believe its intentional, to force people to pay for the leather upgrade. 

RWD allows it to have attractive proportions, instead of looking like a dustbuster minivan with a sedan trunk granted on the back, like most FWD cars.

For a car in this size class, arguing for more interior room is a bit like Russia and the United States building more nuclear warheads. There’s already more than enough to do the job. 

Idiots who currently have money, but probably won’t for all that much longer if they keep spending it on idiotic things like a $250,000 marketing piece for a car company? 

A bit of both, I guess?

I always thought part of the problem that didn't get talked about enough was the lack of branding consistency on their passenger cars. After ditching Rambler, they used "AMC", " American Motors", and "American" interchangeably in advertising and badging, then started switching over to Renault after briefly badging one…

The problem back then was the Renault brand was flopping on the US market, they had run into financial problems back in France and needed to start making cutbacks there, militant French labor unions didn't take that news well and pressured the company into selling its stake in American Motors to raise funds instead of…

Forget about fuels for a second, I’m willing to guess they’re really after our zinc, precious, precious zinc. Without it, their revolvers, car batteries, and rotary telephones would be totally useless, and then where would they be as an advanced civilization? And, then you add in our massive sand reserves on top of…

There’s also the possibility that they already have some high level secret treaty with some of our leaders that allows them to do various things. But, we’ll have to wait for the History Channel show to see the science fiction explanations. 

Well, we are a species that controls a planet packed with natural resources and the ability to sustain life, which, while probably not completely uncommon in the universe, can’t be exactly common, either. We also possess the capability of destroying said planet many times over. I have to think there’d be some value…

Just stay away from vinyl composite flooring, insulation, and ceiling tiles. 

Well, Lotus solved the issue of how to actually build the DMC-12 in a manner that made it handle acceptably for a production car people were expected to drive on the street.

Well, luxury used to mean that the car was made with better materials and craftsmanship and offered a plusher, quieter, generally more comfortable riding and driving experience than a regular car, and also typically with a bigger and more powerful engine. Extra features were kind of a secondary concern.

Me neither, really. Always thought the mk7 Regal and the Rialto were both better looking, but I suppose I'm not looking at them with the eye of an industrial designer in the 1960s/70s.