Yes, this, exactly. Cars today are disproportionately tall as it is, to meet EU pedestrian impact regulations, and tall grills only highlight and accentuate that. The horizontal grille on that mockup helps to downplay/conceal the excessive height to the front end, making the car look lower and sleeker than it really…

Trump wasn't even President 3 years ago, or even president-elect, for that matter. 

Its thinner to save weight for fuel economy and to allow controlled crumpling in collisions, but it is NOT more dent resistant. Believe me, I know. I could carefully climb onto the hood to change the wiper arms on my ‘84 Town Car without the hood flexing in the slightest under me, but pushing a bit hard with a sponge…

Of course, most public places were done in quarry tile, asbestos composition, or terrazzo back then, so the floors could probably handle the abuse.

It sounds like this law just wasn’t designed to address this sort of thing.

And local news has a pretty low bar for professionalism to begin with, so that’s saying something. 

At least it was in the sink. I remember my grandmother’s neighbor snuffing out a cigarette on her new kitchen floor to test how good the tile was, or so she claimed. 

Given how thin modern sheet metal is vs 60 years ago, the new Explorer is probably more at risk of denting from climbing onto it than the Thunderbird, but I would not be surprised if that door strike left a mark, and you know paint jobs aren’t cheap.

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…