Under their family leadership Toyota made a remarkable design shift: Going from the most boring, snoozefest looking vehicles on the planet to the ugliest, obnoxiously grilled, over surfaced, disasters on the planet on one generation. Amazing.

Presided over Toyota through Japans bubble economy implosion and bought the Toyota management system which when implimented gave lower prices and improved reliability to all manufacturers that copied it. Thank you for my Tercel 4wds, Corolla Alltrac and Previa.

I think sound “tubes” are okay, but anything that utilizes a speaker to amplify engine noise can take a hike

This is what all Subarus do. There is no reason, ever, for a Subaru driver to get caught with their lights off when they should be on.

In my fiancée’s CR-V, “auto” also means “automagically turn on the high beams”. It was absolutely delightful in heavy fog and snowstorm.

I was in an Acura TLX and it actually had an ingenious solution where the headlights reset to “auto” every time the car is turned off.

Blacked out lights.

SUVs of course. The fact that they’re terrible gas-guzzling dangerous garbage, while it is the reason why I wouldn’t want to own one, is not my objection to somebody crazy enough to want a crappy car like that having one for himself.

I’m not sure if it’s a “trend”, and it’s petty as all hell, but I don’t like brake light / turn signal combinations. When I see that red light come on, part of me wonders: “Is this guy slowing down with two of his brake lights burned out? (In a state without inspection requirements, this is a common occurrence), or…

Fenneco reminded me of Daria - and now I’m going to lose a weekend watching that series again - but yes, this show is magic. I love the main trio, and Wahimi and Gori are great, and the Death Metal conceit is fantastic even in the English dub. Obviously, I don’t share all the same problems Retsuko faces upon entering…

This show is amazing. The characters are fantastically fleshed out, there’s some great character growth and development, and it’s amazingly well voiced.

The Beverly Hills Hotel by chance? Great place to have a drink.

The Eruv reminds me of an old pet peeve of mine. I used to work as a bellman at a luxury hotel in Beverly Hills. And for those who haven’t been to BH, there is a very large jewish population that not only lives there, but visits there. And every Saturday we would have a number of guests who would head down in the…

And is it just the perspective, or did it come with a stakeside bed extender?

I was previously unfamiliar with the Mazda Cosmo, but man that looks sweet. Looks like it’s crying out to be a convertible.

Don’t forget the Dodge Warlock.

Nah, it’s easier to blame people that aren’t white, and praise white people for exercising their 2nd Amendment rights or make them look like a martyr. Boom, more arrested/dead innocents that make me feel uneasy and I don’t have to pay a dime towards care! Soul? What’s that? More of your expensive wine please!

Sorry, this is America, a wretched, failing empire. Healthcare, here, is a privilage not a right, so... mental health care is only for the wealthy. Gun ownership is the basis of True ‘Merican Culture, and no amount of sanity will ever change that.

Two things...

It’s always nice to come across deep articles are are close with the authors. I’ve always wished that my family had some sort of game that maintained a nice routine and order amongst us, I guess we had Monopoly and Yahtzee to fall back on but that doesn’t compare with this one bit.