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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

$130K for a correctional facility aesthetic.

awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hold up, hold up. So will it be able to enter gas station/convenience store lots with a front lip & overhang that low & long?

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Like, how did they *know* all the way back in 1987 that this is what cars in this timeframe would look like?

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Another car aimed solely at the Villain From Neill Blomkamp Movie demographic.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Is the current crop of BMW designers & execs too young to have *seen* a Mitsubishi Carisma at least weekly, which doesn’t even seem probable? Van Hooydonk is Dutch, & it was built there. But Carisma lead designer Kiyoshi Honda has to be feeling pretty good right now.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Back in *my* day we had to get an overcaffeinated staffer to spend days in CorelDraw hallucinating a Where’s Waldo-type cave with MC Escher stairs & Disneyland slides of all types, a Dunkin, & then get serious outlets to shop it around for weeks to give it credibility.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think we can all agree that the middle one is the most reliable of this three-car solution.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It’s horrifying tbh. On one hand I am glad that I remember the 30th anniversary well & still have… too many items from that time, & I love the new merch from the likes of Eaglemoss & Nacelle. But on the other hand the Huntsville convention does *not* seem that long ago.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@jriz.bsky.social It's such a weird day, actually remembering 1996 & Huntsville, all the 30-year celebrations & tributes on TV & in magazines. And now we have doubled that time span. Voyager is now older than TOS was at *that* point. This Soran scene sums up my feelings about the 1990s basically.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Jag-wire XJ6 (with XJR grille) works surprisingly well in this color & with these wheels. #emaculent

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Every summer open-air festival or art show I go to now has a bunch of these in attendance.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

::sigh:: I didn’t think it would come to this, but now we need coachbuilders & tuners like Carlsson, Lorinser, Carat Duchatelet, Binz, Trasco-Bremen, & Brabus to produce drastically toned-down grilles for factory models that won’t blind dozens of other drivers when the sun is out.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Saw some Very Wholesome cars over the weekend. The fact that someone keeps a white Pontiac Parisienne in this condition is... I am struggling to name the millennial version of this phenomenon. It wouldn't be a Neon b/c that's slightly more of a Gen-X normcore mobile. Elder Xennial at most.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Just a “chef’s kiss” dealer name.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Suddenly hungry for a chili cheese dog.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

::Aldo Raine voice:: “Fee-at Beretta.”

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Amazing how much good publicity Ford bought itself with that $1.95 cookie snafu. One has to, like, step back in awe of the dedication & time that they (apparently) have for such things. Somehow also very on-brand in a 1920-30s kind of way.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Took a closer look & the front ballistic glass is already delaminating due to age & climate. I think this piece is AKIP level at best, & the rear side windows are fake/closeouts.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Doing some holiday weekend shopping but buying only *the necessary* household items like this.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

One thing I like about Aston Martin dealerships is that even if you can’t afford to buy a whole car, you can walk in & they will still sell you a steering wheel.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Thinking back to the day the MittBot3000 campaign produced this & many people just sighed & went “Welp, he’s not wrong I guess.”

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

::lifts phone:: Hello, Chevy? Do you build or sell here any new seda… ::extremely loud incorrect buzzer::

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

So, like, BMW execs that signed off on this have never seen the Twitter “X” logo, is that why this happened? “Ja, das ist in Ordnung…”

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Discovered the Forbidden Camera aisle at Staples. They keep these bad boys locked up.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Took a few seconds to notice that this one’s actually two-tone. I still haven’t been in one of these.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Best car spot of the season so far, & it got here under its own power! (I know, right?)

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

1990s Volvo starter pack. (Do not expect the AC in either of these to work).

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Suddenly remembered that this is a thing that exists. My god, it’s as if every single detail was designed to be as unaesthetic as possible just to spite the buyers.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

One of the many things I love about Interstellar is that *all* the candidate planets for long-term colonization were very obviously hot garbage, which could be ascertained from orbit, so they didn’t even need to land on them & risk being stranded.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Just read the whole thing, thank you for being thorough, & man, that sounds dire. The $50 door pockets & $250 center console that take ages to install just sound like punishment. How does Jeff Amazon’s opposite of the Midas touch extend even to this thing? Like, omg, this is brutal.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

::whispering:: “Don’t buy anything foreign please.”

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

When you’re on your way to Tosche Station to pick up some power converters.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

::sigh:: Never thought I’d say this, but we need to bring Bangle out of retirement. That’s where we are.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The year was 1996. Bob Dole had a lock on the Daihatsu owner demographic.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Genuinely did not expect Falklands would be in the news all of a sudden & my sweetie Handley-Page would be talked about again. Good time for normies to learn why some of them were painted white.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Finally realized what this is: A villain’s car from a Neill Blomkamp film, played by a pale white William Fichtner.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Everything has already been said about the use of the Integra name on this sedan, which is actually very pleasant to drive & deserved a more focused rollout/nameplate. Not sure how receptive the auto market is to a 320-hp, FWD sedan atm, complete with an MT, for $50K+. That's a narrow audience.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Finding out very late that the Hyundai Santa Cruz is actually very nice to drive & of course it’s going away just as, ahem, longer-term fuel price instability looms.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Once upon a time you could get a plumber action figure & decide which one of these two categories, both now somewhat dated, he falls into.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

“We couldn’t get the rights… but if we change his name just a little…”

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

::sigh:: And here's when I knew for sure it's going to be an endless war.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Ngl, two days in, having taken that one elective pass/fail with Adjunct Professor Nero seems to be paying off for one side in this.

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