So you carry oil on long trips?

But the Oldsmobile is very sad about what the 4th of July has been turned into.

I guess the alternative reading is that there is no substitute for government regulation.

In reality, it'd be a thousand or two less than a GTI. Converting sticker prices is grossly misleading.

Converting car sticker prices across currencies is completely useless.

We think the French come up with weird-ass constructions, but, man, those Brits. Engineering on acid.

Bingo!

Funny you should mention that. Japan-only mobile phones, from before the 3G onslaught, are known as ‘galapago’. This is not a compliment, and that generation of Japan-only phones was the last.

63hp, so engineers put superchargers and turbochargers on them to make more torque. They even add sophisticated AWD systems to some models.

Or, alternatively, “Hey, look at me- I’m not going to be a wage slave so that I can buy pointless status symbols"

All the best designs are all function, no styling.

Hmmmm, ekiben!

I think we can all agree that riding the train is objectively bad.

It’s great that cars like this still exist, and are still loved and cared for.

And

Long strokes also lasted an inordinately long time in the UK, but that was also because of rules. Tax rules.

Very true.

I have. My flabber was gasted. But it doesn't need to be that way. It's a choice.

In 2019, perhaps. In the ‘90s and earlier, we called a moving image camera with film a “film camera” ("movie camera" in the US, I guess) and an moving image camera with electromagnetic tape a “video camera”.

I’d call it a ‘film camera’, which made perfect sense in a world where all cameras used film, but only this type made ‘films’.