This excessive exercise in heritage-mining could only make sense if they found someone as awesome as T.E. Lawrence to kill himself on one.

To be fair, facts get in the way of comfortably affirming ignorant assumptions.  So there’s that.

I came to make some helpful suggestions, including an open-invitation wrench-in.

Buy the cleanest Toyota Corolla you can find. It will out-perform your refrigerator for reliability (if you take any care of it.) and it will be easy to park in Hipsterland Brooklyn, (sorry. my late onset Boomer derision slipped in there)

I remember the Car & Driver issue with this on the cover. My 8th grade reaction: “What the fuck is that??”

After reading the head, I was gonna come here and ask “How could anybody - especially an OEM whose been making trannies for longer than I’ve been alive (I’m kinda old) fuck up a MANUAL TRANSMISSION? I read further and now understand it’s the classic bean-counter “it’d be cheaper to do it this way” fuck up.

1st Gear: “confidential information about the group’s software failings had                      leaked” 

I assumed Bexar County was some exurb in Peckerwood drilling country. I was amazed to learn it was San Antonio. 

1st Gear: Nissan Stops Building Nissans

1st Gear: Nissan

Double the horsepower, or maybe

There are “things” which are worth avoiding in our food. But the idea that everything around us is dangerous, or toxic, or even just “gross” is an anthropogenic way of making ourselves needlessly miserable.

“Live Free and as a consequence, Die.”

As a result of your complaint, the FTC has launched an emergency, expedited instigation.

As a result of your complaint, the FTC has launched an emergency, expedited instigation.

“Thriftpower?” No. 

Funny you should mention radical socio-economic theory. I’m trying to work through Piketty’s Capital and Ideology during Coronantine, but after watching him on an interview, I’m having difficulty working through the text because I keep hearing it in an almost indecipherable French accent.

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IIRC, the Yugo was actually a FIAT 127. Same idea, just a little less effort.

The 128 was an incredibly cleverly designed car. To maximize interior space, the window crank knobs were hinged (Every centimeter counts.) It had a hand throttle which could function as a semi cruise control on the highway. The spare tire sat atop the engine to maximize trunk space.

Merci