According to C&D a stock 2005 xjr pulls 13.2... not a slouch but way way slower than 11s.

Before his first presidential campaign, he drove a 300C. I remember because he was the only Democrat who drove a halfway decent car.

Agreed! It's super-weird looking, but not ugly. And it's nice to see a car on the road that doesn't have the same wind-tunnel-jellybean shape as everything else.

I got driven around in one at the NYAS, and the rep said it was designed to be recyclable and bio-degradable. Hence the laminated eucalyptus accents (which I loved) to the pressed kenaf dash and door panels (which LOOKED good, but felt too much like, you know, an early-stage prototype material made from plant fibers).…

My parents had this antediluvian idea of money too - all renters are wasting money! Credit cards are a scam! Never finance a car - that's just GIVING money to the bank! Maybe that advice works if you were born in the forties, but sometimes the best option is to spend the effing money.

The C-pillar gives it the look of a late Monte Carlo. I can't believe anyone bought one of these.

I sang there too, and I remember it being more diverse than that, but maybe it just my productions. It still wasn't a fair balance relative to the city, of course, but I thought of the white-bias having more to do with the much greater popularity of opera in Europe vs. the US (ergo more qualified singers coming from…

The product of an illicit one-night-stand between a Peterbilt and a Hyundai Azera.

It's just that generation of S-class I don't like. The E is a fine-looking car, if a little staid. If I had a choice between the two and they cost exactly the same, I'd pick the E every time.

I linked to a non Panther car. My ignorance is now banished, but the shame remains.

I hate the headlights on these things. I know they're Europe's greatest achievement since the Renaissance and obsessively engineered by Germans with beautiful-mind-style autism and cheaper and easier to own than a bicycle, but the headlights look ugly, and the rest looks boring.

I live in Brooklyn, and I would love to street park this. Maybe on top of my neighbor's Mini Countryman.

Especially because reelecting him would require amending the constitution to permit a third term.

I hate to have to ask this... but you do realize he can't run for reelection, right?

All the autistics in my station do is talk about the track gauges in the original subway system.

How did UVA fail Jackie? She seems to have invented her rapist and posed as him, and fabricated most if not all of her story. If she really did undergo some severe trauma that night, how is the school supposed to help her if major parts of her story are demonstrably untrue? Perhaps she's suffering from a mental…

"Cheveaux" means hair. A horse is "cheval."

I've read that plane crashes are often eerily quiet, although the source was written long before cell phones were common equipment. If a plane is making a crash landing, the only thing standing between the passengers and certain death is pilot skill and crew competence. Staying silent is a matter of self-preservation;…

It's really weird too - I was on a flight that hit turbulence so severe we had to make a severe emergency descent, and it was almost silent. Just the noise of the plane creaking and an occasional whimper from a small child. Not to say it wasn't tense - they probably had to pull a few hundred fingernails out of the…

All these suggestions are asking you to look to the past - famous and quirky classics, beautiful supercars from a decade ago, SUVs designed when filling your gas tank cost less than topping off a water cooler. Why not look to the future? The Tesla Model S. You'll coast around in a gorgeous, hyper-luxurious car that is…