So paid advertisements are now the content? Smart. I’m sure someone worked hard to find a way of shoving even more ads onto these already clogged pages. Can’t complain, it’s free to me, but I also don’t have much of a compelling reason to visit here often either.

I dunno...is taking someone else’s visual distinctiveness, dumbing it down for blandness’s sake, thereby generifying (made up word) what was once unique, a bad thing?

Buick bigwig command: “I dunno...make it snazzy, yet prestigious...you know, like a Mazda or a Volvo. Just, uh, don’t step on Cadillac’s toes.”

I think “Fashion” is maybe the trim/model name. The owner’s manual clearly shows a “Force” and a “Shock” are also available...which means Torch got the secretary’s trim level. :)

Cha-cha-chang...Li of Foo-ools! Fucking awesome! Thanks for the excitement. :D

It has always been the schtick. That’s the first rule in the Generic Blogger’s Handbook.

Shareholder greed is also wanting dividends regardless and prioritizing short-term gain. Most Toyota shareholders expect dividends and don’t much like “risky” product that could cut into that.

This. It’s incredible how people nowadays just spout whatever they think someone said/what they read into what was said as if it were, in fact, what was really said. Toyota is a business beholden to shareholders and it’s damn difficult to make a business case for low-margin, low-volume products these days. It’s…

“behemouth”...? WTF lol My autocorrect is apparently a worse speller than I am.

Haha at “Bland behemouth.” Totally! Bland just like the family that lives there, no doubt. “You must come to my new estate for the Regatta, Charles. It’s known as ‘Milquetoast’, which I’m assured is an Old French term for ‘Wealthy and Powerful, yet also Humbly Regal and Magnificent.”

I was thinking the same thing, except the Disney bit...the only thing Disney in this house is that basement. Everything else is that particular sort of generic and cliched shit overly-tanned and shiny people see as “class.” Like that Trump idiot.

Me too, but I haven’t thought of that tune for awhile, so it’s kinda nice. Weird thing is, “Glory Days,” and songs of similar sentiment, pretty much always lead me to Mellencamp’s “I’m Not Running Anymore” next.

Fuck, let’s hope!

Damn straight! My feeling is, always hang onto stuff that never lets you down.

I feel the same thing whenever I stumble across a photo of myself during my own youth. It always strikes me how I don’t even really look like the same person. Life-cycles, man...happens to everything. Cars, neighborhoods, office complexes, strip-malls, us. Shit, even the mountains are being ground underfoot.

Is it sound though? Hard to know without looking in person. I somehow smell bondo here, but that could just be my past experience with all these compact pickups.

Problem with that is all S-10s are shit. Former owner of both a 1st and 2nd gen. They’re the sort of vehicle where little things (shitty carbs on the first gen, odd transfer case issues and electrical gremlins on both gens) nickel & dine, and frustrate, you to death. 

True, but the yota pickups that typically command the real big bucks are 4wd, which is somewhat justifiable from a practical standpoint since it’s a whole other segment and genuinely small off-roadable trucks have gone extinct. I mean, shit, even Wranglers are too big for narrow trails now. A 40-year old 2wd compact…

Yeah, I love these old compact pickups (of all makes), but I don’t want to live in a world where a 40-fucking-year old Datsun pick-up is worth $4K.

I’m realizing a lot of people have no clue what “cool” really is. Cool is giving not one once of shit what others think about what you choose to drive/dig/do/whatever...especially when whatever that is is inherently cool, but not always. Like, some people tried to convince me the Hyundai Tiburon is cool. Nope. Driving…