Maxwell Smart drove a Sunbeam Tiger in at least one season of Get Smart.

I owned a Mazda 3 for two years, so I can agree that they are well made and nice inside. However, even as someone who rarely leaves town and lives 3 min drive from work, I can say I wouldn’t buy this as I need more room inside to carry things. If you, (insert person here), do not, then the MX-30 might be ideal for you.

Isn’t everybody? How many corporate handbooks would have had a chapter entitled “In case of Pandemic........”

My uncle had a Z900 when I was a kid in the 1970's. He used to take me for rides up and down a long straight road near their house - it was great.

I’m quite surprised by that - The way he writes about his love for the collection of (sometime) mobile disaster zones he owns, I thought David was closer to middle age, like me. Huh.  Have a good one, sir.

Thanks. I’ve preferred one since I drove a manual for the first and only time.  There are plenty of reasons why my life has more downs than ups in the 30+ years since that day, but driving an automatic is not one of them.

Someone in my town owns one of those - in that colour.  It looks great.

Never a fan of the Countach, or most Lambos (except the Aventador). Growing up in 1980's in an Australian country town, you almost never saw any exotic cars (I rode in the back seat of a 911 once in the ‘70's, which the person still owns). I didn’t see a Ferrari in person outside a car show until 1992, when I was in…

The Edison Company merged with others to become GE.  That’s all I meant.

Lucky he did - otherwise GE might be making your car now :)

In 1977 I went to the Melbourne Motor Show in Australia - I was eight. I was also convinced that this was going to be my first car in about a decade or so. I was wrong, it was a gutless small sedan. Still, I have the spiritual successor now:

‘The car-with-a-truck-bed just hasn’t really hit it off’

Can’t see the point (or barely the difference).  I also can’t wait for the Hyundai Ioniq 5 to get to Australia so I can see it in the metal.  It’s currently my choice of future EV ownership.

‘OSs don’t matter for consumer computing’

Enjoy it.  Just don’t expect me to join you.

With you right until the last word.

You don’t have to be old. I work with a woman in her 30's who basically dared them not to sell her their last car for what she would pay. It worked, and I think I might ask her to buy my next car for me.

I’m not sure what you are saying here - are you referring to the higher sales of some colours over others, or erroneously saying that iMacs were not popular until recently because they were only silver?  Either way, have at it - it’s just not clear.

Yeah, that is basically the Australian experience as well.

Yep.  I love pineapple.  I love pizza.  I don’t love them together.  At all.  And for those who say ‘just pick it off’, the juice is cooked right through every bit of the pizza.  No no no.