Hah, good eye! Looks like I need new glasses.

Thanks, asshole, but that doesn't explain how a semicolon is like a woman with loose morals. Also, why not use your real e-mail address?

Paragraphs . . . please!

When writing a headline, it's acceptable to pluralize a single letter with an apostrophe. Consider if the unnecessary letter was A. "Who needs the unecessary As" is confusing without context, no?

I'm surprised no one has commented on the unecessary n I omitted from unnecessary.

It might be standard, but it's not good.

I laughed, too . . . and then I weeped.

I disagree. Until is more formal, thus it is the appropriate form for a news headline. Till may substitute for to in Scots and other dialects, but in American English newspaper style it's rare. I searched Google News for "till," and of the first 30 results only two US sources used till as a substitute for to (one was a blog). The rest were Indian and British.

This reminds me of words like learnt and spelt, which are perfectly acceptable in Britain/Australia/New Zealand but not in the USA.

Ford is a separate brand from Lincoln. You wouldn't say that you drive a Honda Acura TSX or Nissan Infiniti QX56.

I am puzzled especially by "bidder's" and then "dont' ". WTF?!

". . . unlovable VQ" You take that back, Jack! My VQ30DE is smoother than a baby's butt all the way up to and past redline and I love it more than food. And that's sayin' something!

I've often thought that the Japanese market collapse scared the crap out of the Asian automakers. The collapse precipitated profound changes in the culture of the country, especially its business culture. No longer were company men guaranteed a lifetime job; layoffs, an unthinkable act, were made; and the mega manufacturing conglomerates were hit hard by the currency crisis.

The result, in my opinion, was a move to "safe, conservative" vehicles by T, H, and N. The bread-and-butter sedans, CUVs, and SUVs were allocated the most resources and they returned big profits. Low-volume sports coupes and wagons were killed off, for the most part.

The demand for relatively inexpensive, economical vehicles in their home country has them well-positioned to supply modern, "sensible" cars for the rest of the world's collapsing markets. The teens decade of this century may turn out to be the battle of the compacts.

I don't count Japan out just yet.