Ford representatives: “I thought you said this problem was in the rear view.”

Hmm? I would have bet he thought of her as a cousin.

Ok. You win. Let’s push for even higher car prices.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GPI/group-1-automotive/gross-profit

and restomod with a Hyundai electric motor!

That’s the kind of thinking that the car makers want you to have. Don’t be one of the suckers born every minute.

Dude owes thousands in unpaid tickets. Speeding through school zones isn’t good for MPG’s either.

Pretty sure if your car is totaled in a bank it’s Federally insured up to $250,000. 

Might as well say let them drive cake.

It’s something I’m afraid to Google while I’m at work.

“Update from captain himself 1.) Bee keeper isn’t allowed to touch airplanes! So they’re not coming! 2) Pest control is not allowed to spray planes. 3) airport does not have hose to spray them off with water! 4) fire department can’t come”

Where I’m at the you wouldn’t get past planning with that approach. Let alone get a permit. If the construction doesn’t match the permitted drawings you won’t get a certificate of occupancy and you can’t move in.

You’re giving the developers too much credit in your example. Site layouts are entirely driven by city ordinances and design standards. You back into the maximized building footprint after looking at required parking counts, set backs, and landscape requirements and you get what you get.

Its bad design. Ideally there would be as little interaction between pedestrians and cars as possible. The only reason I can think of why the entry drive would point you in the direction to be driving across the front of the store is the proximity of the entry drive to any intersection nearby. Cities don’t want curb…

I think they fixed it with an additional cost option on the latest model, but I’d add fake exhaust tips to that list.

Speaking of cultural mysteries associated with parking lots...

Read the room. This article is not geared toward the collector or those who got lucky with limited edition cars during a one off supply chain related economic mess.

Coincidentally, cities with Hertz Rental Car locations are expected to have a 20% increase in wrongful arrests for car theft.  

You guys forgot the brown manual station wagon.

Or some redneck engineering and a bunch of Swedish cars.