This is a joke.

As a little kid I was weirdly fascinated with these! I collected a bunch of magazine articles on them & had dreams of buying one and putting a nascar worthy engine & suspension in it.

On a whim I Bought a 1977 Mercedes 280S in Eastern Washington and drove it back to the coast. It had 150k miles on it and was comically slow to accelerate, but so comfortable and beautifully made that it became one of my favorite cars. Over the 3 years I had it, I noticed that every part The replacement part used by…

The problem with the Cappuccino and AZ-1 is not being tall but being wide. I always wanted a Cappuccino but it has the narrowest interior I have ever seen in a street car. I’m only 5'11, but have big shoulders and a large frame, and I didn’t come close to fitting in the Cappuccino. The interior felt a foot narrower…

The 1912 Hispano-Suiza Alfonso XIII in white.

Pointing out the degree is not an ME but a BoS would be one thing. Calling it “an auto tech school with more custom work and ad hoc design” is being a snarky ass and you deserved to be called out for it.

Awww.... is sombody jealous?

I’m a VRI guy as well! I worked on 23, 25 & 27. Dr. Seal was an amazing guy.

Absolutely this! Talk vampire movies and blade always comes up as an important and excellent film. its just not thought of as a comic book or superhero film by the general public. Most people don’t know it came from a comic and he was not really a general superhero type - he was strictly a bad ass vampire hunter.

The Cygnet was less cynical badge engineering, and more an elaborate aristocractic English joke. So surreal - I would love to rock one!

Absolutely! Great writing.

Maybe 15 years ago I was an engineering consultant to a US OEM. One model was made at both a union and non-union US plant. After careful study we discovered that it was actually several hundred dollars cheaper to build cars at the union plant. Labor was marginally higher, but it was much closer to major sales markets…

Nope! Fail.

What an utter load of crap. Wages and employment are driven by the balance of labor and demand in the economy, not the ”lifestyle” of some all powerful CEO. What you rattled off is just a variation on the idiocy of supply side economics.