the Prescott, Wi cops had to settle for an old Cavalier with a giant wing and every item of car bling Kmart sold including the shiny 5-spoke plastic hubcaps

Cybertrucks seize themselves!

I truly would love to a see mfr comply by including a cheap battery-op transistor radio with every car purchase.

six well-appointed bedrooms and 4.1 bathrooms.

Pshaw. One never argues with the poors, one simply has them removed.

There’s a very good This American Life episode that looks at the life and death of Saturn. It was in part inspired by the experience GM had partnering with Toyota (NUMMI). Roger Smith saw the endeavor as the last best hope for GM, and it did work. It was intended to be a real joint effort between labor and management…

I expect that a rear emergency release is a nod to people’s legitimate concerns about safety, but it’s little more than a nod. When a potential buyer raises the question, the current release is an answer that eases minds without truly solving the problem.

I also think about how cables that aren’t regularly used can get frozen into place.

There are designs where the back door is a reduced size, and often hinges at the back. These were common a extended crew cab designs.

I also think that it’s unreasonable to expect that people operating machinery at very high speed to not react with profanity when suddenly presented with a large high-speed object that is suddenly in the immediate path that they expected to take.

Few people ever notice the font on the bottom of checks, if they even deal with checks at all anymore. So the MICR font is one that seems really alien, yet remains readable.

And that is why neither you nor I will ever be that rich. It takes a serious personality disorder to get there.

Not true! I’m pretty sure that his drug use has a fighting chance of him committing death by misadventure.

As properly noted by others here, Musk did not invent those things you cherish, he successfully hyped them. In fact, his greatest individual contribution to Tesla is probably the absurd Cybertruck. But the bigger problem is not the wealth derived from the companies he heads up, it’s what he chooses to do with that…

If you want to tax the rich, tax wealth

2017 Forester. The sensor pad under the passenger seat that tells the airbag system whether the seat is occupied has been intermittently failing. Subaru says maybe 7 months for a new sensor set up. It’s been 5 months with no response from the dealer.

https://xkcd.com/1897/

Don’t forget about Dunkirk. Waiting around long enough for the Brits to repatriate their boys was an incredibly foolish move.

Even if her insurance company is responsible, and I don’t think that is clear, any payout will take months. Looking to get repair dollars now could be important.

The problem with that approach is that the suburbs keep creeping out into the country. Several decades ago, a friend knew a guy that had been collecting old cars from defunct brands. Hudsons, Packards, Studebakers, DeSotos, etc. He had them lined up on his rural property, not bothering anyone. But Tinley Park…