I though of this too, sadly true

He also had the courage to invest in the production capacity necessary to build nearly half a million copies of a completely new type of car. He had nothing but a little focus group reaction and his own instinct to go on. He believed he had something special, and 418,000 sales in the first 12 months (model year sales…

There are a ton of Ford styling proposals that were were designed as small Mustangs and Thunderbirds that look remarkably similar to the Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant 2-door models. A hybrid of Thunderbird and Mark VI-like styling ended up on the Dodge Mirada and Chrysler Cordoba for 1980. There is also a picture…

Remember when most cars didn’t even have an adjustable seatback? Oh my! The only cars that did were large luxury cars with six way power seat options.

I’ve never lived anywhere in my life where you could reasonably get by without a car — from towns of 10,000 (no way!) to metros of around a million (maybe, but only if you want to take 3 buses and walk 2 miles, and maybe get home by 8pm).

Truck buyers want all of the fancy toys, but they don’t want the pretentious badges that often come with luxury vehicles. It’s all about maintaining that blue-collar air that makes you “one of the guys” instead of “that pretentious asshole over there.”

Not to mention that the massive amount of electricity needed during the middle of a snowstorm, which is probably about the worst possible time for generating electricity via solar.

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It also lowers your standards on woman to realistic levels.

Cops don’t need a warrant to drive down your street and look out their front windshield either. The horror!

‘China is known for building ambitious infrastructure projects in order to artificially prop up their economy and stock market, and not finding humans to populate them after the fact.’

Plus most of them were already designed and tooled in Germany. Plug in waterfall grille and put round Buick emblems in instead of round Opel ones, and you’re good to go.

I have a feeling its mostly for the real estate as well. sure the store front doesnt do well, but it would be simple for a gigantic corp, to convert most of that to more mechanical pursuits. its nice to have a small store front, but i see most of that space being used as tire storage if bridgestone was to acquire…

I thought the same exact thing, nobody is going to want a streaky and weathered “salt crystal” in 30 years. Plus I have to wonder what housing all that salt will do to the concrete. This thing looks great, but it may require some serious maintenance. Otoh, perhaps the recipe for concrete has been improved on enough in…

Jesus. What the fuck is wrong with people?

I agree. Plus, 718 Boxster makes more sense than 718 Cabriolet.

Man, I had no idea the early Wagoneers had such handsome interiors.

I’m gonna say it was the 1966 Super Wagoneer that started it all. It was basically the luxury version of the standard Wagoneer and had air conditioning, an automatic transmission, power brakes, power steering, a tilt steering wheel and a push-button radio.

It was the bee’s knees.