Neutral: I've said it before, but the 20th Century Motors "The Dale" story with Liz Carmichael would make a good movie.

BA might have turned an operating profit, but Airbus lost a ton on service and support, which is what really killed it. Virgin Atlantic was totally serious about wanting to take over the Concorde fleet, but Airbus informed them that they had no interest in continuing the business relationship.

It waned due to packaging benefits of V6s, and their ability to, in some cases, share tooling with related V8s. But, with the industry going to I4s for almost everything, the ability to share costs and tooling with a straight six makes them worth another look.

I wish car interiors still looked like this

Buick sold over 1 million cars last year, Pontiac never hit that, and the only time they came close was over 40 years before the brand was dropped.

But people aren’t buying comfort either. Most of the smaller crossovers (Escape, Equinox) ride pretty terrible on less than smooth pavement and have hard overly hard seats.

Is this really a problem? Each generation MINI that BMW does is worse than the one before. This just holds the line on them messing it up further for a few more years.

Because the older, rich, conservative clientele of Imperial still wasn’t sold on the whole seat belt thing and probably weren’t going to use them.

had a bit of history to it, too. Was previously owned by the State of Illinois for use as the governor's official transportation. 

This particular one was also almost 30 years old. Not that that's inherently a problem, but machines do need more careful and frequent maintenance and more repair as they age.

This was the era when simply owning a bag phone marked you out as a baller, the Soarer was just extra.

The 25% tariff was in exchange for removing the volume cap on exports that had been in place since 1980, both of which had the unintended consequence of pushing Japanese manufacturers into building more expensive, higher margin models and pushing upward into the luxury segment

I have no idea how, but Car and Driver somehow recorded a faster 0-60 time with the Automatic than the 4 speed standard. They were both very slow, but, shockingly, not the absolute slowest subcompacts on the market at the time, which is something, I guess.

Its called unintended consequences, the law politicians rarely fully consider when making ones of their own.

This is similar to what CAFE did to station wagons and full-size cars vs. light trucks in the US.

Or you could work at my company, where there are literally a few thousand VPs, and the title is pretty much meaningless, since everyone in middle management and quite a few in lower/junior management is one.

Right - a surprise meeting with no topic or agenda, and then have a picture of your car slid across the table to you when you sit down. That feels like the way this would actually be handled

I don’t doubt that there are companies like that out there. I once turned down a field sales job at a big CPG company because it didn’t include a company car AND required that my personal car be no older than 5 years (earlier in the interview process, I had assumed I could just buy a cheap old Camry or Crown Vic and…

I’ve moved a 21" mulching mower in the trunk of a Mustang with the seat folded down twice, and once in a Camaro. Also, once in a Town Car trunk, but that wasn’t a big deal - the lid closed neatly with just the top half of the handle folded down.

Which is ridiculous, because it looks nothing like any Ferrari and wasn't trying to. There were a bunch of Ferrari kits for the Fiero, but Zimmer was explicitly trying to do their own thing. He'd have been better off with a stock Pontiac, the regular Fiero looks more Ferrari-like than this.