The important thing is the passenger cell, that's how '90s small cars crumpled. It did all it was designed to do.

That’s what you want though, the trunk crumpled right up to the rear of the passenger compartment to absorb the impact force, leaving the passenger space intact.

I’m talking about the one in the article sandwiched between the two pickups. 

Correct, but there’s a couple of considerations.

In this case, I’d say it performed fine. The passenger compartment looks intact, the windshield didn’t shatter, and it looks like the doors are operable. Of course, it probably didn’t happen at that high of a speed, either. 

Considering that they can’t be scrapped anymore, I really don’t see who would be willing to pay that much for them. There can’t be that many salvageable valuables left inside, they were warships, not ocean liners. 

The Chevette was one of the closest things the US ever got to a Sovie bloc-style small car - low tech, basic, easy to work on for a do-it-yourself mechanic, agricultural feeling, and pretty low on the quality and reliability front, but also somehow still pretty rugged.

Part of it is that they are really, really good at marketing trucks and SUVs and just don’t have the subject matter expertise to properly sell cars anymore, thanks to years of being an afterthought business line.

Profit margin, percent of sales goal achieved, global sales. Worldwide, the 7-Series outsells the CT6 by about 6-1. 

I just think its sad that Cadillac is so bad at competing in the very market segment it used to almost totally own for decades - full size, V8, RWD sedans with plush interiors and a smooth ride. They haven’t been truly strong sellers in that category since, what, the 1980s?

I’ve used just standard leather cleaner, from Meguiars or similar, with a lot of elbow grease. But, be careful to work in a small area and not scrub too hard - with a lot of car leathers, its very easy to rub through the dye layer. I had a printed cardboard box transfer ink onto my back seat once, got it out with…

Those sandal wearing goldfish tenders?! Bosh! Flimshaw!

They were awesome because of benign neglect. Designed in the 1970s, and mostly ignored by Roger Smith and left to their own devices.

Or a Jeep or an International.

Whenever I see an old truck like this, I marvel at how low to the ground the bed floor is. I mean, you could stand on the ground and reach something in the middle of the far back of the bed without having to step up on the tire. 

The lettering says “American” in small print, above “Honda” in large print, with “Motor Co. Inc.” in small print again below that. That’s the full, legal name of the company.

A lot of it. The whole reason the McDonald brothers resisted mass franchising outside of southern California and Arizona was that they wanted to keep the chain to a number that they could manage and regularly check on themselves.

They don’t even taste like apple, I never understood why kids liked them. 

OK, that was hilarious. 

I think the car he was pointing to was a Hyundai Sonata, which Lutz claimed had the best paint quality and panel gaps in the industry at the time, even better than Toyota.