Sounds like Discovery is still holding true to their strategy of ‘take show concepts that could be great, dumb it down and meathead it out’.

Confirmed. We had a 2005 Corolla. By 2010, rust was already unstoppable at the bottom of the wheelwells and sills. New England road salt can melt through time. Japan can make a car run through 3 armegeddons, but their sheet metal has always seemed cheap.

...or the 95% of the population who consider a $55k BMW (or any automobile) fancy.

Wall to wall vests in my office...and every other office in Boston. Maybe they should just turn up the thermostat?

Let’s hope you’re right

Got it. I’ll add Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, and David Gilmour to the list of things those under 30 years old likely haven’t heard of.

Was going to write this, but didn’t want to seem too grumpy old mannish. Swearing is great to get across the occasional super strong opinion or point. This seems just gratuitous.

And your username already defines you as one of us old guys. No one under the age of 30 knows what a Fender Strat is. Pretty sure Fender, Gibson and the rest of them will be out of business in a few decades.

Bumper stickers are tacky and in bad taste, particularly on a nice car. That said, two of my favorites I’ve seen:

To steal a quote from a guy here a little while ago: “I’m starting to wonder if this whole internet thing is worth it”.

Disagree. People all of a sudden have ‘easier tools to kill’? As the article points out, cars have been around for over a hundred years - they’ve been widely owned by the populace for 50 years. The frequency of these events has skyrocketed in recent years (in addition to mass shootings etc) because either more people…

Hard to argue with any of this

Given Chrysler’s reputation for quality, I just assumed this would be the hammer of inspiration:

I would venture to guess out of the staff writers, two of them have ever touched a hammer. Pretty sure Ballaban has never dirtied his hands in his life.

In related news:

This cop should be given whatever the highest medal of honor is for a cop. These highway cloggers are the lowest form of human. What amazes me is that they’re either that oblivious to the stream of cars passing them on the right or they somehow just don’t care. Either way, they suck.

Yup. In most scenarios, the notion of giving speeding tickets to ensure safety is a complete farce. The fact police are often stationed strategically at places (at least where I live) right next to a 30mph sign after a 1/4 mile stretch of a dead straight 45mph (in and of itself, silly) country road, tells you all you…

I immediately discredit the thoughts of any professor who begins his sentences with ‘We gotta...’.

My parents owned a 1988 Eagle Premier. It was a big step up from the previous family sedan we had - the Chevy Celebrity Eurosport (I did not make that last part up). A big step up until the ‘what could possibly go wrong with a 4 country mash-up car’ reared its ugly head.

Out of curiosity, if you paid $3,000, what kind of Grand Wagoneer would that get you?