Would you want to do that through a column shifter though?

I actually clicked to see if the column shifter was somehow coming back - I mean, straight sixes are returning and Mazda is toying with rotaries again, so fashions can be cyclical.

That's true, it probably just wasn't implemented correctly before, there will be different people to manage it properly this time.

Or just buy the BMW version, because blue-white roundel emblem, which is the only feature most BMW leasees really care about.

If you’re talking newly introduced models from that era, yes. If you’re talking what was on the market, maybe not. The Citroen GSA hit the market a year later, but it was obviously an update of the older design.

PFC Automobiles?

Yeah, it was really powered, but the tip jets were only used briefly on takeoff and landing, and if it needed to hover. For regular flying, it would just be the forward movement through the air and the wash from the props that would spin the rotor. 

They do make a big deal about all their company wide recycling, carbon reduction, tree planting, and other such environmental issues, but the bigger thing is the perception of cooperating or siding with the administration on anything. Whether they truly consider themselves environmentalists or not, Subaru's customers…

Subaru really shouldn't have done that. Even if they think it's necessary, at least stay neutral and let the others fight it out. This is not going to mesh well with the brand image they've spent such care building up. 

I don't know who that is, I'm assuming a musician of some sort?

Why was SpaceSelfie a thing in the first place? Who was asking for this?

Yeah, the fact that the trend has been going on for so long now is a possible indicator of a permanent shift. Wagons only really got popular in the ‘50s, since they were too expensive before then, and faded out in the ‘80s. Minivans hit in the ‘80s, start waivering in the ‘90s, and really went out in the ‘00s. The SUV…

Yup

Companies are starting not to care about us, since the oldest millennials are now pushing 40. The focus is on understanding how to market to the generation or two after us. 

Well, Baby Boomers bought Beetles as a rebellion against corporate America and excessive consumerism, before they got married, moved to the suburbs, and got promoted to middle management - at which point, they traded them in on Tauruses, Accords, and Caravans.

Im skeptical that this is true, but part of me has suspected that this would happen eventually. People do generally shy away from what their parents had/did - that’s a big factor in station wagons, minivans, and personal luxury coupes dying off. With SUVs/CUVs having been the dominant family car form factor for so…

That would barely cover my daily commute, with no reserve for detours, traffic backups, or other unexpected changes.

Theyre probably subleasing office space from Nissan, given the latter's own aggressive staff reduction plan. Could be a case of literally not being able to afford their own building anymore. 

This, exactly. Everyone loves to hate on cubicles, but I don’t see how a modicum of privacy is somehow worse than no privacy at all. We’re in the middle of an office renovation right now, and my seniormost employee has spent months complaining to me and everyone who will listen about being moved from a private office…

How does this, a car that was never intended to be a convertible, and was hacked together by an outside shop, somehow look so much better than a Cascada, a car engineered by GM from the start as a ragtop?