“awesome” is a hideous overreach. But (especially on the day we lost Iacocca) the K-cars were an important switch to a new (for Detroit) engineering paradigm. And they kept Chrysler afloat for a decade or so.

But, but  .  .  .  Silverado has a transformer instead of a tailgate. 

There’s an ongoing contradiction with Trump. He went to a military school. He knows no military history. He’s C-in-C and yet he’s a walking “stolen valor” violation.  

If you don’t like the way we party, why did you invite us?

It’s about time we Boomers admitted the two painful truths of our generation: the world is no longer ours; and our children and grandchildren have no fucking taste whatsoever.

1st Gear: Car Sales Suck

I wasn’t suggesting Ford couldn’t have a sports car, but the T-bird wouldn’t be it. (Especially the last-gen cartoon of a car.)

I thought they made light bulbs and electrical equipment.

Reverse:

I thought eliminating bikes with fairings and clip-ons was supposed to death-proof the Hillclimb?

Ferrari and Mercedes have been threatening to take their ball and go home for years. But even with “cost-cutting rules” they and Red Bull have been the only competitive teams for a decade. Economic activity expands to absorb the amount of money available and F1 is a prime example. Bernie Ecclestone never met a…

There seem to be two kinds of rules and infractions: rules regarding cost-containment; and rules regarding safety. Ditch the former completely and enforce the latter only when injury or serious threat of injury is involved.

I think you’d look phenomenal in that Bentley, Kristen. Pull on that red dress and heels and swing by my place; and we’ll lay waste to the Hamptons. 

Wait, aren’t there three dozen or so GTOs? Some with the ‘64 Kamm roof and tail, most not? Aren’t there even model-to-model differences between the original series cars?

There is something sad that people resort to the internet to be “influenced” instead of encountering people and experience from which they can draw their own inferences. 

Was the gratis tasty? And who ate it, you or the Hyundais?

If this is what we can now expect, we need no more St. Louis sports championships. At all. This is worse than Sully and Tommy fighting at the last Pats parade. This is even worse than those Philly idiots celebrating after the Eagles SB win. At least in those cities, the embarrassing behavior was limited to the fans.

UAW has shown itself to be an organization which is comfortable with institutionalized corruption. If a union like IAM or a start-up (maybe one designed to unionize the transplanted manufactures’ plants) had been offered as an alternative, would the workers have been more receptive? 

I find it heartening that today’s children are enthusiasts.