You’re welcome, fellow OCDnik.

I like it a lot, but it’s still infected by American gargantuanism. The Honda Jade can do all the family stuff, just in an efficient and...sort of sexy way.

You’re right, a mind fart had this video at ‘93, which couldn’t be right. Sorry.

“...bring their production line up-to-date with...robots”

Seems like some OEMs don't like drivers shifting to N while driving? My wife's got an automatic and seeing that we live in a hilly area, I often cruise in N for extended stretches. It scares her, because like most wives, she thinks her husband was born stupid and may accidentally put the lever "back" in R instead of…

There are some experimental safety cars that feature much the same, but which are marginally less dorky looking:

Great response by the officer though. Kind and polite rebuttal, probably aware his tape will find the light one day.

Why does that V6 remind me of two stroke Trabant racing engines? They have...nothing in common.

Hm, 20 years ago I send my parents to Volvo and they came back with a Kia and a Daewoo. If you remember them from the late 90s, that’s like setting out to get cosy high mountain cabin, but buying a tool shed instead. Two XC60's in one household doesn’t at all sound wrong to me.

Tiff Needell has always been lovely to listen to. I have never seen him anything but enthusiastic. But, boy, he looks old now.

Cover.

What a horribly stupid ad. Put Trump’s success with two of the worst dictators of our time up as an advertisement to conspire against the current leader of the free world, who has nothing to do with a car company who has veered off the righteous path? Nothing here is making any sense at all.

Why? Seats are basically VW’s with sharper edge design and a chassis that has been worsened in the name of sportiness. I am renting one right now and it drives like pulling a piece of wood over tarmac. Pretty horrible compared to a Polo. 

Surprising how similar the old and new recordholder look. The cars that is.

I read that as “GTA trim” and it made sense.

That’s true, but it’s still hard to visit due to lots of restrictions, and true-to-form Soviet reliability on making arrangements: “What? You had booked a tour of cosmodrome? But everyone is on vacation, ычат!"

True that. Do you have the same user name there?

It’s still the same place, just with less traffic.

The truck is a GAZ 51, see also:

The S is a big and heavy car that behaves like a van when you wiggle it. With this slight design change, its huge ass gets even more visual provenance.