Someone is going to get a hell of a deal buying this from the receivers. Most people won’t even know they went bankrupt, and their brand name has so much provenance and cache the brand, factory and workers should in the right hands be fine.

This is the Toyota way. Take it on the chin. Learn from it.

I worked at Toyota at that time when they had that thing in and pulled it apart. It had oil changes every 4500 miles, unbelievably well maintained everything else. Truck basically sat at 75 on cruise control for about 9 hours a day delivering parts in Texas oil fields. The only obvious sign of wear was on the drivers…

I know nobody died - but watching the start of the 1998 Spa F1 race where there was a huge pile up (they should never have raced due to volume of rain) - I just assumed half the drivers would have died and they were all my heroes at the time. 

There might be something in that! My local vicar had two sons, one was in rehab last I heard, the other does drag cabaret in Spain...

But the insurance would or should be prohibitively expensive. I assume a 1.5 L max would be circumvented by getting an EV...

We’d have a huge drop if people had to do a UK test. I did mine in the UK and it was genuinely hard. One aspect (which I think has gone now) was reversing around a bend keeping parallel too the curb. That would KO about 70% of Americans. My driving license in Kenya was harder than getting the US one! In the US I drove…

I don’t even know how people with a ton of kids afford it, or give their kids the attention they need. Maybe that’s where a bit of God helps them as instead of parenting them they just indoctrinate a fear of being struck down by the man in the clouds.

I completely lucked out and went there in 2007 when they were doing work on the port so only small boats could access it. I arrived from another island. It was a gorgeous place, but everyone I talked to would refer to how it was when The Tourists arrived. We can’t have nice things. 

I’d love this, but the religious types (who have so much power) want everyone to have 15 kids.

No chance.

Leave it in the woods as a scratching post for the bears.

...Lack of self awareness

Only need one buyer and all that. There’s more than enough idiots to go around who want to stand out. A couple of weeks ago in Beverly Hills a green G-Wagon Squared convertible went by me followed by a 6x6 G-Wagon with smoke stack exhausts. 

I fell asleep at car 4

Nah, I just like to use words appropriately. 

He diversified into beers?! Cool

Los Angeles loves ‘street sweeping’ as a way to make parking horribly confusing. Signs will say ‘Westerly direction, 3rd Monday of the month - no parking’. To add insult to injury the street sweepers do almost nothing and actually just blow dust into the air.

I’m no snowflake but I don’t like people invoking ‘Nazi’ needlessly. What they mean is overly strict or bureaucratically stringent.