It's true that there was no big product news from Japan or the US this week. But really, this week's biggest product news affecting the most people in the world was probably the introduction of the Peugeot 301. All the high-end BMW stuff is pretty useless to regular folks.

Oh come on, they're not that big. One of my cars is bigger than a 7 series. It also doesn't have a console, so it really feels big. It's the most comfortable car I have ever been in.

I strongly disapprove of that BMW 7 console. If I were to buy a big car I'd want it to feel roomy inside, so I wouldn't want a huge console taking up that precious space.

A Northstar is going to be a really hard fit with those giant heads. A Cadillac OHV 4.9 will almost certainly fit, however. I have seen it done on the Citation, which is actually a related platform to the dustbuster/spaceshuttle U-vans.

McMaster-Carr is a lifesaver worth a WT article. I just got a shipment today for my diesel fuel filter replacement/retrofit project on my Peugeot.

Extra tip: I found out that if I have them ship to my work address, I get next-day shipping for the same cost as slowpoke UPS shipping to home.

In that graphic, it's offal that they left out some of the tastiest cuts of the cow.

I agree, but I'd take that pile of cash and get a real wagon (like a Roadmaster or a Country Squire) as well as a head start on the performance mods.

The 1977-1979 Impala/Caprice is one of my most favorite coupes of all time. I love that rear window.

A foxy lady.

A lot of people fail to realize that for some of their platforms, GM returned to having substantially different designs on a single platform in the early 90s. There was lots of sheet metal shared in the smaller cars, but the fullsize FWD cars (C, E, G, H, K, and V bodies) were basically all the same platform, and yet looked radically different. They even had different wheelbases and pillar-to-axle lengths, but it really was just a mix-n-match of a couple different subframes and floorpans that used all the same hardware.