An important point was that Cadillac was still the top selling luxury brand in America until 1998, when Lincoln bumped them down to number 2. Their products were not competitive, their sales and market share were declining, and their customer base was aging out and shrinking, but their sales volumes were still huge…

Well, if they can teach rats, I guess there is hope for everyone in the DC suburbs. 

The statement from the North Carolina Railroad, the bridge’s owners says “the Gregson Street Bridge rehabilitation will involve raising the bridge to increase the roadway clearance ... for the purpose of improving safety for the community while reducing the threat of damage resulting from vehicle strikes”

Really a similar issue to Cadillac - where it doesn’t really matter so much how good the cars are, if prospective customers still associate the name with blue hairs playing nickel slots in Atlantic City. Image does matter a great deal with vanity purchases, like luxury cars and expensive motorcycles.

That would create a better flow for entertaining 

Not that most houses are that difficult to figure out from the outside anyway, especially with everyone drinking HGTV's open space all the things Kool-Aid these days. 

The bridge is never actually hit in any of these videos, the trucks are hitting a crash bar a few feet in front of the bridge. And I don't see why using more smaller beams to replace a smaller number of large beams is necessarily a problem, the engineers can figure it out. 

The bridge itself hasn't been impacted in many years, trucks have been hitting a protective crash bar installed about a foot in front of the bridge. 

$3k for an American Granada with poor paint and needing fairly extensive rust repair? CP, you'd be lucky to get that much if it was mint. 

Yeah, lots of cars had rear fuel fillers, including GM's B-bodies through 1996. 

Apparently, they’re not actually raising the height of the bridge deck, just redoing the structure under it with thinner, lighter material to buy an extra 8 inches of headroom. It will still be low enough to create problems for some vehicles, but the number of crashes will be significantly reduced. 

Unlikely, sales in 2008 were down 50 percent from 2007, and those were down over 20,000 units from 2006. You can't profitably support a whole division with its own separate sales and marketing organization and dealer network on 26,000 vehicles a year. The H1 had already been dropped years earlier, the H3 had to be…

The ‘83 LTD Crown Vic that almost gets air in Sabotage?

Well, traditional linoleum flooring is kind of back in, for people looking for midcentury modern authenticity, or just eco friendly materials.

 They tried to, the Chinese government vetoed the deal. GM has been pretty meticulous about protecting the trademark ever since, they've got several current registrations covering hundreds of uses. 

HUMMER died because they kind of back themselves into a corner as a maker of expensive, oversized SUVs with heavy military cosmetic theming, and those sorts of vehicles became very difficult to sell when the recession hit in 2008, and GM was too slow to act in extending it downmarket into smaller and more economical…

Lincoln MKX? It’s a Ford Edge in a fancy costume, shouldn’t be that terrible on maintenance.

First car at 16 was a 1971 Super Beetle, second car at 17 was a 1991 Volvo 940 Turbo - I felt bad driving the old Volkswagen every day in the winter salt, plus the heat was not great at low speeds.

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It doesn’t stop the car from turning on, moving, and being refueled, does it? Or from turning back on after its shut off?