This is true, their bikes are low tech and much of their r&d and tooling expenses were amortized long ago, and lots of people are willing to pay a premium for the brand. The margin per bike is very healthy, they just need more volume.

Where does the Great Space Coaster fit into all this?

I have cousins in Fairfax, the traffic alone would be reason enough for me to never, ever want to live there. They would move in a heartbeat if their work situations allowed.

Its the same in the US. People either treat them as 4-way stop signs, or close their eyes and floor it straight through. And drivers that do know how to use them stop anyway, because they’re afraid of getting hit by one of the other idiots.

I don't know, the Washington, D.C. area sets a pretty low bar. Especially northern Virginia.

I love all the Lamborghini emblems glued in random spots. Like the guy thought if he added just one more to the dashboard, the illusion would be complete. 

Well, it was science-based and was partially fictionalized for narrative/entertainment purposes.

Basically, the connection with Mitsubishi Motors is through Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance, which is controlled by Mitsubishi United Financial Japan and owns about 4% of Mitsubishi Electric. MUFJ also owns about 1% of Mitsubishi Motors and 2% of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and 4% of Mitsubishi Corp, which in turn have abo…

Most underappreciated line: "it's not fake, it's just cheap" - perfectly captures the disposable, movie-set like architecture of modern hotels and cruise ships

Yeah, instead it was one that people use for actual work. 

Keep in mind, this was when “FWD” and “import” would have been considered features. 

Obviously, but, we’re stuck with them, since most modern cars are basically designed around Conestoga wagon wheels - the designers seem to start with the wheel first, and then grudgingly sketch the rest of the car around it. Its a lazy way to make a design look interesting, so you can make the same generic snub nosed,…

The correct answer is sideways, more conversational.

Didn't they used to just be called either "4x4s" or "utility vehicles" ? I don't think the "SUV" term came around until the '80s, at the earliest, and this sort of vehicle had existed for decades by then.

And they’ve since redesigned it again, bringing back the capital letters and changing the globe to a flatter hybrid of the original and the 2000s one (which always looked horrible printed in anything except full color).

Every few years, the logo loses some more detail. By 2030, I predict the whole thing will just be the uniform/running into danger flag. 

But, then someone can’t get paid as much for their consulting work. Not exactly earning your fee if your whole presentation is “let’s just redo that thing you already did and keep it the same”. 

Because someone in the ‘90s decided it was “due for an update” and made it 3D and shaded, only for it to revert back to something close to the one they replaced some 23 years later, when it was “due” again. 

Especially if the original logo is something really iconic and well respected, and not just something the founder or a previous CEO sketched off on a napkin because they had a printing deadline to meet. What’s been done to some of Saul Bass’ work in recent years is borderline criminal. 

They prefer "fuel dispensing technicians" now, "attendant" is outdated and offensive.