When I was 22 years old, not only was I a horrible driver of manual cars, I also lied a lot to try to cover my ass. Not saying he’s lying about not taking it to a road course. But after a quarter mile run, manual cars are downshifted to slow down in conjunction with brakes so you don’t run out of track. Adrenaline and…

>student mechanic

As they should. Overrevving is 100% user error. Hitting redline is the engine’s method of preventing overrevving. Mechanical overrev is what happened with this car, apparently multiple times. One can mechanically overrev their engine without experiencing immediate catastrophic failure, also knows as a money shift.…

Right-o!

Did that test RS have the stupid racing bucket seats?

Those were optional if so, the standard ones are way more comfortable imo, mine are heated to boot. :)

Easy, the monstrosity [that who should not be named], built in Mexico for GM/Pontiac and used an off shoot, misspelled name of an ancient Mexican empire. As one automotive journalist described it...

I have a particular disdain for options available that completely invalidate a car’s reason for being. The Murano convertible/cabriolet for instance.

Almost everything Chrysler has discontinued in the last 20 years. Sebring? Thank God. 200? Thank God! Nitro, Liberty, Journey? GLORY HALLELUJAH! Avenger and Caliber? PRAISE THE LORD! Patriot? AMEN! The FWD Cherokee? PRAISE HIM!

CyberTruck. Yes, I’m projecting. 

One of my dearest friends has a Solara convertible, and she loves it like it’s her baby. She’s spent oodles keeping it in perfect shape. And it is indeed a blast when four of us are in the car, top down, tooling around the North Pinellas, FL area.

The Mustang II

Non-sporting convertibles are nothing new. These cars are just the modern version of this:

There is nothing wrong at all with non-sporting 4 or more seat convertibles. Everything is better on a nice day with wind in your hair.

Even before the VW diesel scandal broke - I could ALWAYS tell when there was a diesel VW in front of me in traffic - they always smoked and stunk. I’m glad they’ve mostly been crushed. 

I’ve had similar thoughts on all these. Its inexplicable why all convertibles past like 2000 (or possibly long before that) could either be fun and cool and seat 2, or be awful and boring and seat 4, or be cool and fun and seat 4, but super expensive. I legit almost bought a solara drop top once, and I kind of wish I…

I’ll say this, I was excited when they axed the Buick Cascada. And really, any car in this same competing class (Toyota Solara). I thought it was a great thing, the world is finally rid of sleep-inducing roofless Xanax on wheels that has no business trying to turn the very essence of Scrabble into a thrill ride. We…

There’s somebody (well, several somebodies) renovating a house across the street. One of them has a *pristine, massively lifted* H2. It’s truly wild to look at. It’s tow hitch must be three feet tall from where it meets the receiver to where the trailer hooks up.

Strange, but the 2 vehicles I would not want to be seen in are the Prius and Escalade.

I would consider the newest Prius but remove all badging.

Fuck this thing.