May I please add a side rant? Take-out sandwich places that do a side pickle right there in the same package as the sandwich. So, that your entire sandwich is contaminated by pickle juice. Disgusting!

The Reatta is an attractive car. It’s a mess in every other respect, but it doesn’t look bad.

The mayo is the issue, not the pickles.

This is an abomination.

I see what you did there. lol :)

Pejorative term referring to the children of the nouveau riche.

Worse.

It was a base model with that stiff cloth, but had a 383 transplant and that odd three barrel carb on it.

I’m forced to assume your Mom was in National Lampoon’s Vacation.

When my mom traded her Jaguar S-Type R for a Mustang GT. Here’s a picture of her at the drag strip. She loved that car for 10 years before trading it in for a C7 Grand Sport.

That’s becoming more common now, at least. My Mercedes even connects the auto headlights to the auto wipers, so the headlights come on when the car detects rain.

Or wait, was the Belvedere Cooler?

My mom is awesome. She was also a big Magnum P.I. fan.

I like this response and I appreciate your impetus to remain objective in your assessment of the world around you.

Yes, headlights (35 watts each) makes up the great majority of your 100 watt assumption. DRLs are not headlights. Therefore, throwing citations at me regarding their efficacy doesn’t substantiate any rebuttal against my claims. Also, the citation you did use is a decade old (at time of publication) which I noted…

Lightning McQueen really let himself go in retirement

Why not just get rid of always-illuminated dashboards?

The problem is that the “auto” function doesn’t know to turn the lights on when your wipers are on.