Post-war, I'm not so good outside of US history, no.

3rd: Is it just me, or does the BMW guy look like he's about to eat the Toyota guy?

You're right. I think the only Japanese manufacturer that hasn't lost their way is Mazda, although I think Toyota is starting to put some effort in, too (not with the Corolla, obviously).

I couldn't agree with you more. I remember what an asshole I, my friends, and other students were in middle school, although the closest I came to this kind of thing was hiking up my pants and impersonating a substitute (she said some pretty funny things though, like "Sack-a-wee-uh (Sacagawea) was born in I-dee-ho…

It doesn't surprise me that this happened on a school bus. I remember riding the bus for a couple of weeks in high school and I couldn't help but notice that many of the kids on that bus were just plain awful. Of those I'd say half were white trash (unsurprising, since there were some trailer parks on that route)…

I couldn't agree more.

Ummm... "woman" is not a race.

Yes, but I think there's a big difference in the quality of GM leather (especially when we're talking 90's-early 00's) and BMW/Mercedes leather. Besides, high-end German marques have a habit of charging a lot for stuff that should be standard. This is especially true of Porsche.

Hmm, interesting. Usually I think of names like Alistair Snobbington Peasantcrusher XXIII when I think of nobility.

Robots: Japan's solution to all of life's problems.

For #2, how can you even have that many names? I mean, I have two middle names, but this is something else. Or was his his first name Wolfgang Alexander Albert and his middle name (names?) Eduard Maximilian and Reichsgraf Berghe? Or did his parents give him a bunch of names because he's nobility and wanted him to…

I've had something like that happen with my grandfather. He was a plane spotter in the Pacific and saw the Japanese do things that made him hate them for the rest of his life. I know he got mad at Mom for buying a Mitsubishi, but I don't remember anyone saying anything about him getting mad when Dad got a Honda, or…

Since when are the Charger and Caprice "lightweight sedans"? I know we live in an era of 3200lb. compacts, but two tons is not light by any stretch of the imagination.

Okay, that has to be a joke... or an actual former police interceptor from East Germany.

"Rep. Forbes said that... the Navy should be focused on building more ships and planes."

I don't really understand why this can't be the Impala. Dodge and Chrysler have proven that RWD sedans will sell in the low and mid-price range, so why keep a front-drive Impala? And I don't see the problem in calling this a Commodore. "Chevy Commodore SS" has a nice ring to it, so why confuse people by making "SS"…

I hear you, I just love the traditional taste of my British ketchup. So what if they haven't changed the recipe since the early 50's, or that half of the bottles they make are actually full, or the leaks, or the frequent unavailability due to bottling plant strikes? Well, at times it completely stops to taste like…

Honestly, in the case of the Bristol, you can go all the way back to 1936, since it still uses a frame based off of the BMW 326.

According to Car and Driver, the SS and V6 both have a governor limited speed of 157. Besides, you shouldn't really have trouble getting to 150 with 323hp.

Actually, getting a German company to buy it might not be a bad idea. Audi has Lamborghini, so why can't BMW get DeTomaso? I mean, they kept the rights to the Rolls-Royce name and made an entirely new Phantom to go after Bentley after VW got it. Come on, BMW, don't you feel a little left out of the acquiring…