My Dad bought a new Austin-Healey 3000 mkIII when the Navy stationed him in Scotland, he brought it back to DC and kept it for 3 years after I was born. We moved to Bogota and had a new '68 FJ40 but left it behind when we moved to NYC. A new '74 Swinger led to a new '77 Corolla wagon, a used '79 Westphalia and then a…

@Mark 2000: I pre-ordered on the Apple site and the $18 fee was waived. I believe that on the AT&T site the fee is NOT waived.

@Mark 2000: Nice, I forgot about that one!

@Mark 2000: swa-swa-swa-swa-swa-SWATCH! I bet your watch got all scratched up.

@jedimario: Ah. I never noticed it on TV. It def. wasn't there when I was racing in the late '90s, heck the pits used to be on the outside of the front straight!

I grew up in NYC and expect police cars to be medium blue with bold white graphics everywhere I go; I also expect taxis to be yellow.

@jedimario: When the heck did they add that?!

@Peugeot-Now with 33% less debt: It's the pastel sweaters I'm worried about...

@ArmoredCavalry: Point made. But why didn't he act on the intercepted Japanese messages?

Do you wanna know how I know you're gay?

@RaithMoracus: Bhopal was worse in human costs but this BP disaster is much more widespread and will affect whole ecosystems for a long while. Parsing who is to "blame' and who will pay should be secondary to making sure that everything that can be done is done to minimize the destruction. Unfortunately it doesn't…

@ArmoredCavalry: I should have said he knew about it ahead of time and could have moved the fleet out to sea and taken other steps to minimize the damage caused by the attack. He chose not to in order to draw America into the war in Europe.

@acemannw: Roosevelt knew about the attack on Pearl Harbor ahead of time and let it happen in order to get America into the war in Europe which had already been going for 2-1/2 years.

@RaithMoracus: Um, Bhopal? Thousands dead overnight, 10s of thousands dead over the next months, the site STILL not cleaned up 25 years later...

@jalopnikfan: if only I knew how to post pictures! I have one of a 4-door BMW across two handicapped spots, blinkers on... at the supermarket.

@Biapilotaceman: It's true I'm ancient, but young at heart! Isn't 40 the new 30 or something?

@Biapilotaceman: actually I had algebra in junior high, but college is where I last took math as a class, hence where I would have last had it inculcated into my brain. Point being, it's been a while since I studied math AT ANY LEVEL. But thanks for pointing that out.

@Biapilotaceman: That's the one! Been too long since college math.

@tzed: Ooops, I meant entry-

The 1938 Ford enrty-level Coupe is a hell of a lot larger than the new Ford Fiesta. Automobile size is cyclical, not the fancy word for a curve that just goes higher...