My first thought was also Tesla as Elon Musk fits the eccentric billionaire. But I’d go with the truck as it fits current US vehicle tastes (being a truck) and the famous “oops” demonstration fits our current time.

I need to throw in Mazda’s use of Bo Diddley.

Good point!  I got a few months before they started leaking, at least. 

I don’t recall its being all that unusual back then, as if you wanted decent sound in the car you usually went aftermarket (or bought a much more expensive car). I planned to, but financial reality set in. There was always setting a cassette boombox in the backseat, though.

I’m old enough that I got my first steady paycheck in 1989, which I immediately used as a down-payment for my first new car, a Nissan Pulsar NX with a stick. It was even in a radical 80s turquoise. I never got the Sportback hatch, however. I wish I did, as the stock notch limited rear room and trunk space.

Nice point of view. I love manuals and was happy I could return to driving one in 2012. (A nasty hiking accident had me in an automatic for a few years). So I tried the few manuals I could find, bought a new Mazda, and have been very happy with it. It adds fun and engagement to each drive without drawing much…

Towards the end of their era, nearly all of them had the rear bumpers replaced with wooden boards. I had a ‘79 Cutlass Supreme which had the rear bumper detach as I was driving it back to campus from a shop.

Very cool! I have an 89 or 90 Schwinn Worldsport I’ve been planning on turning into more of a gravel bike. I was planning on getting help from an area co-op, but then the pandemic hit. I believe it has a “Made in Korea” sticker, which would make it a Giant?

Jennifer Lopez also did Subaru Legacy commercials. “Perfect new.”

I’ve typed and deleted a few words, but, if I may, I’d like to share John Coltrane’s “Alabama.”

I’ve only recently begun biking again after about 30 years, so it’s changed a lot. For me it looked like two general categories, road and mountain, with all sorts of variations under each, like trail, gravel, downhill, adventure, urban, etc. 

It’s hilly where I am but not mountainous. I’m not shredding downhills nor taking it on sweet jumps, just some rides on dirt trails through the woods (with occasional gravel or a rail trail). A hardtail mountain bike does those well.

Sure, but it wouldn’t be nearly as fun. Or weird.  One or the other.

Yes!  Probably a good idea to carry a haz-mat suit, too.  And avoid Ravenholm.

That wouldn’t be a bad workout plan.  Well, until I’d hit a downhill section then get run over with my own car.

I looked at some of those, but not enough into getting one registered in Ohio. That and being legal and getting someone at the bureau to believe me/do something unusual can be two different matters.

I shouldn’t have clicked. That yellow and red one is stylin’!

I’m loving the coverage and reporting on the Freeman, but with each article I have to step away from the computer before I start searching for one (especially as a lot of my neighbors love their golf carts).  I wonder if there’s a mini-truck model that could carry my mountain bike.

I suspect a lot of people who previously relied on public transportation are buying or looking to buy cars.

So I’m a fun-to-drive, uncomfortable van made in the UK with a mid-front-mounted flat four-cylinder engine driving the front wheels (but where are Zoot, Rowlf the Dog, and Dr. Teeth?) named after a place.  Er, a Bedford?