I forgot this car existed in the amount of time it took me to scroll to the comments. It was the least memorable product from Cadillac’s least memorable design period.

I don’t have the citation handy, but I read a research article a while back that used some actual conspiracies to model the correlation between how many people are involved and how long it takes for someone to spill the beans. Basically, anything involving more than a few dozen people is impossible to keep a lid on…

It’s a 2008. Back then even the NASCAR cup series cars were running carbs. They’re still the cheapest way to get maximum power out of a crate engine.

Because racecar.

Only one car has had a logo so righteous it needed the whole hood.

Jeep Wrangler. The real one, with the stripped out tub of a body, tube roll bar, price tag low enough to actually risk off-road, and proper square headlights.

They’re pretty much the only sober ones out there.

Someone should really offer some kind of insurance to cover the gap between what your car is worth and what you owe on it. They might even call it gap insurance.

Living in a rural area, and it being late October, I would hardly call a deer in the road an edge case. I’ve probably seen as many of them driving this week as I have red lights.

Ford Model T.

Meanwhile, Ford has both EV tech and a Police Interceptor model with an established market, yet they will still find a way to sleep through this.

I had a rental car once for a few hours (diverted flight and drive through an ice storm to the airport where my car was) that I think may have been a Nissan. I say “I think”, because while I’m pretty perceptive in general and more so about cars I really don’t know what it was, but I’m pretty sure if it was something…

Maybe keep the Outback? The front passenger seat fully reclines, leaving a flat nine feet from the dashboard to the lift gate. I’ve thrown over a hundred board feet of rough sawn lumber into one with just a tarp thrown in to catch the dust. You don’t need a pickup to carry a few 2x4s home from Lowe’s.

My local dealer has a Legacy Premium listed just a hair under 30 along with a couple of base Crosstreks. However, getting either of those with a decent engine (like the Crosstrek Sport in the slideshow) is going to be at least 34.

Being on the showroom floor is going to be of minimal use in a flood. I think they’re more concerned with damage from windblown debris.

Not that it would matter with the way some of them drive. There was a similar crash around here a while back with a cop blowing through a red light. Broad daylight and lights flashing, but when you crest a blind hill doing a buck twenty in a forty five zone the cross traffic doesn’t have much time to react.

And the coverage and premiums are based on some modeling of what the insurance company is likely to have to pay out. I get the feeling that Geico is dropping these policies because whatever data they were using to calculate the premiums turned out to not be correct.

What complicates the analysis is the fact that each of those top three pickup truck models have huge MSRP ranges (like $40k to $80k), which might smooth out that valley a bit.

This is what ten years of corporate malfeasance has done to a media company:

While this is true in the abstract, the long tail of the distribution is very small volume. For example, Honda sells about five hundred times more vehicles in the US each year than Bentley. Meanwhile, the best selling trim of the best selling vehicle in the US is the F150 XLT, which happens to have a starting sale…