I was thinking exactly this

I keep having this exact thought all the time. You can’t build castles in the clouds forever.

I think it’s a Kia.

You got a problem with that?!?!?!

My daughter (7) asked this question when we went to the Chicago Auto Show. So yes, it sounds just like the real story that happened to me and my daughter.

THIS! Back in the early 00's I bought my dad’s 3 year-old Lincoln Continental off him for 1/3 the price he paid. (He didn’t give me a discount. That was literally the KBB price!)

Yeah, that “winged” (?) grill was awful. I understand it was supposed to reference 1930's Lincolns, but it just looked like a big, bushy mustache.

Source: Try car-shopping with my wife. Her disapproval of crash scores has prevented us from a number of fun cars over the years.

This article made me giddy.

I noticed this design language a lot at the time. I couldn’t quite figure out why all the manufacturers latched onto it. Then I read somewhere that this was the time when car manufacturers were experimenting with doing away with clay models, and designing the cars completely in CAD.

The rear spoiler does help dress it up a bit. I had a 95 L Wagon (not WRX or anything), but it looked basically like this, and I always thought it was just hideously ugly from the B pillar back. I felt like I was driving 4-wheel chick repellent.

Chrysler, too. Like, if you’re going to design a car company logo, the spread wings are about as generic as you can get.

Why is Curb Weight sometimes spelled “Kerb” Weight?

Dude, it’s a late 80s Chrysler New Yorker from the front fenders back.

Counterpoint: No.

Everyone knows that the best way to learn Linux is when one of your VMware hosts goes nuts and siezes half your servers, and the only way to get things working again is through CLI.

Perhaps, although to your analogy about a teen learning to drive, the difference is that, once the machine matures past its “teenage” years, it never has to go through them again, nor do any other machines. Humans have to learn everything from scratch; machines can have all the info they need from the factory, and can…

FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUCCKKK!!!!

Good to have you back, Hamilton.

Trading $10 earbuds for $159 tiny wireless thingies I will probably lose while walking down the street? Wow, let me give you money!