There’s not wrong about caring for the fuel mileage and efficiency your vehicle gets. I feel like people equate “hur I don’t care ‘bout no fuel mileage” with some sort of strange macho-ism or enthusiasm for the car hobby. It’s unhealthy. You can care about MPGs and still be a hardcore enthusiast. Nobody is going to…

The first time I saw one was when I was in Tokyo. I’ll rant a bit and try to set stage.

Damn I can’t even tell you the last time I *SAW* an EXP on the road. My brother had a Dodge Rampage for a while which I remember having a very similar-ish front end to the EXP with the long split slats between the H6054 headlights (which it seemed like every 80s car used).

I’ve rented two Rogues, one in 17 and 19. One thing that just superbly killed them for me - and this is seemingly so minor and insignificant it’s crazy - is that for 18 onwards they completed removed the option for the third-row “jump” seat that you used to be able to get in S and SV trims. It’s kind of baffling. It’s…

On BAT recently a 1985 Corolla GT-S sold for $40,000 USD. And it had over 100,000 miles on it. I know those cars bring a drift premium or whatever and everyone wants to live out their Initial D fantasies, but c’mon... In the later 1990s a RWD Corolla was the car you saw in your local newspaper’s classified section for…

This is what kills me about Ford and any of the marques that sell these sort of trucks; they make profit hand over fist with them and buyers just go along with it. I believe I read somewhere that Ford’s profit on the LOWEST equipped F-150 is something like $12,000 per unit. Astronomical, and it’s much higher as you go…

This is what I’ve disliked about the modern qualifying format. Indycar’s is similar.

When Skyrim first came out I put just around 135 hours into it, but I didn’t actually complete the main quest. I was incredibly distracted by every random thing in the game you could do, and then before I knew I was hoarding 79 sliced cheese wheels in a barrel and had 23 steel swords I was never going to use. I…

The FIA mandated locking mechanism would prevent that. In F1, there is a rule where the nut has to have a locking mechanism built into it. When the mechanic performing the wheel change attaches the air gun the lock is released, allowing the nut to be removed and put on. It remains unlocked in the gun and while the…

Large single studs are used in near every other form of racing except NASCAR currently. Every FIA machine you see racing in the world uses a single stud, from the smallest of open wheel to GT and prototypes, with a far less failure rates than anything NASCAR where crew members have to rush to hastily attach five GLUED…

What?! An Indycar article without Miss-Indycar-Elizabeth?!

That’s one of the things I really like about modern Indycar racing. Sure the field is effectively driving in a chassis that is now nine years old and has gone through evolutionary changes, yet any weekend any number of drivers in the field could actually take home a race win (and it’s been proven this year already, as…

Cruises like Carnival are... just that, a carnival. You have to deal with kids screaming and running around, a tremendous amount of underage drinking which tends to run rampant (you’re in international waters; whats anyone going to do?), and the only quiet time is when you return to your state room. I won’t step foot…

As soon as Americans are allowed back in Japan without quarantining or otherwise I’m on the next flight. I love it there. I haven’t gotten a chance to really explore Osaka/Kyoto as deep as I’d like, and as much fun as Tokyo is you can never do everything there.

For a while there it seriously looked like Power might not make the field. It’s really incredible to me the absolute horrid luck he’s had as of late, considering the equipment he drives. What a story it would have been had the recent ‘18 winner not actually make the field.

Years back when Daigo Saito bought a Corvette for D1 GP, he actually bought a former Callaway Corvette that was used in the Super GT 300 class. That Corvette was a former customer FIA GT3 car that had raced in Europe and found it’s way to Japan. In Japan it competed against this Vemac in the car’s final season in GT…

I was at Gateway in ‘19 and man the finish was absolutely crazy. I’m also a big Sato fan, and partied pretty hard that night after the race. It was great redemption for the issues at TMS earlier in the season (another race I was at in ‘19).

There is a NASCAR sanctioned race track in Alaska, Alaska Raceway Park, and I really want to one day see a race there. I believe the highest series that races there is NASCAR’s INEX series, but seeing an asphalt track, with seating that looks like it could be at home at a local short-track, with the mountainous back…

The Mustang could die tomorrow, and it ultimately probably wouldn’t hurt Ford. Chevy already experienced that after the 4th Gen Camaro left the market. On the other hand, Ford’s entire modern identity is around their F Series trucks and truck buyers are fanatically loyal. This could be the massive salvo that really…

I wait right to the point of going past a fourth of a tank remaining, but prior to a low fuel light coming on; that whole range is the strike zone. I don’t like fuel to get too low as you don’t want the pump drawing in air at any point (it’s a bit of a rarity nowadays with modern fuel tank designs on cars, but severe…