Skipped through 9 of the 10 slides as the only vehicle I would be mildly interested in is the Mach E

My Dad would’ve probably said his Austin-Healey Bugeye Sprite or his Chevrolet Corvair or his Jaguar E-Type, but those were before my time.

Mazepin losing his seat didn’t come as a surprise to anyone but, apparently, Mazepin himself

Soon to be seen on “Bring a Rocket” (BAR):

Man, Pooping Oasis was a great band. I still remember their first hit, “Excrement Supernova.”

“License plate frame from a mechanic or dealer”

This is actually an improvement from when dealers used to put their nameplates right on the back of the car along the lines of the make of the car.

This was a particular pet peeve of my father who wouldn’t buy a car unless the dealer took their nameplate off.

<Number> AM in the morning, e.g., “5 AM in the morning”

I especially enjoy a good veal cutlass

Can’t wait for Raphael to get his hands on the PHEV Crosstrek - all of the annoyances of the regular Crosstrek plus less cargo room!

I’m not an expert in F1 (clearly) but Hamilton’s last few races have seemed, I don’t know, desperate - like maybe he feels things slipping away & is being overly-aggressive to try & catch-up. He just doesn’t look as smooth as he did in races past.

Got my first full-time, “adult” job in the spring of 1993. To celebrate, I traded in the 1987 VW Fox (yes, I said “VW Fox,” which Wikipedia is helpful to point is “Not to be confused with Audi Fox”) that my parents bought me for a new Mazda MX-6 LS (in black).

Where was Chinetti’s first Ferrari dealership? I'm guessing it wasn't in Des Moines

Our democracy may be crumbling, but at least we can drive as fast as we want

We have a 2020 Crosstrek PHEV. It’s not practical, the battery takes up too much room in the back, the mileage isn’t fantastic, the tech is ‘meh,’ we paid too much for it, etc.

Was it not clear that my tongue was firmly planted in my cheek when I wrote that?

“1st Gear: The Markup On New Cars At The Moment Is Pretty Big”

So, when I paid over sticker for my 2020 Subaru Crosstrek PHEV last year, I didn’t get taken, I was just ahead of my time ;-)

Except that the pipeline wasn’t hacked and could’ve stayed up and running if the owners had been willing to do some extra work to ensure the billing was correct retroactively:

https://jalopnik.com/the-colonial-pipeline-was-fine-but-it-was-shutdown-to-1846911689

Remember back in WWII when the British said that their pilots were so successful at shooting down enemy aircraft because their eyesight was better from eating carrots and it turned out to actually be because the British had RADAR defending the coast but they didn’t want the Germans to know that?

Probably the same thing…

All I got was a pin

I was going to make a crack that each of Mercedes’ Smart ForTwos should only count as half a car, but then got to her school bus which, by the same logic, should count for more than 1 car. So, it all evens-out in the end!