I’m sure they won’t abandon it entirely, but maybe they could at least tone it down and shrink it a bit to just get it inside my deal-breaker threshold. I myself don’t know where that threshold is, and if you look at the hideous front end of every current Lexus and Toyota passenger car , I have no confidence their…

What is ironic is that the situation the Tesla was in, was where you might think these semi-autonomous features would work best: On a limited access freeway so no street intersections, bicycles or pedestrians.  He was even on the inner lane.  Not being able to detect the broad side of a truck clearly shows that…

The man in the ‘68 Ghibli manages to pull off driving one of the most beautiful cars ever made.  I’ll cut him plenty of slack for that.

Well I for one do not want to ride in the back of a limo.

That occured to me as well. But if protesters start coming armed, one instance of using those arms, no matter how justified, will bring out guns on the other side, and these things will really become bloodbaths. The tire tacks suggest above seems like a better solution. Ram through some people only to be stalled out…

I agree. I’m a middle age white guy who strives not to be racist. I try not to think racist thoughts. I try harder not to have racist reactions and be aware of them if they occur. I certainly certainly hope I never behave in a racist manner. But I’m probably not perfect at it. I’m not perfect at anything else so why…

No one likes to be dismissed because of what they are. Not people of color, not white people, not even “Boomers”. Read your second paragraph again. As justified as I’m sure you feel it is, there is no way that is anything but a racist rant. If I heard a white person say those same words about any non-white ethnicity,…

This was a rare occasion in which the earliest years of the car’s cycle are the best. Mazda could only decontent the car so much the first year as they simply didn’t have alternative bits on hand for all the things they wanted to replace.  They took out more each year after. Gone went the projector lights, the carpet…

It is pretty simple, really. Automakers clinic their current designs with owners and ask them what they want. Owners of small cars may like their small cars, but ask them how it would be better and you are likely to hear “more rear legroom” or “more shoulder room”. And then there is always the desire to claim “most…

The vehicle will never look right as long as it has that double decker front end including the improved version shown here. Taking care of that would probably require the hood to be lowered which should still leave plenty of room for then engine bay. though connecting it to the high windshield base might be problematic…

Too bad he wasn’t in there when the sheetmetal got all wadded up.

Have to give credit to San Francisco. After the 1989 earthquake damaged the Embarcadero Freeway, that connected the Golden Gate and Bay bridges, they decided: “Screw it, never liked that eyesore anyway, and the downtown is far more attractive without it. To this day, there is not a single freeway running through that…

Absolutely! I still tell the story of how I blasted through the entrance of Hooks Airport just northwest of Houston to park my Nissan pickup under an empty private plane cover (kind of like a very long car port) to save it from what was approaching golfball-sized hail. I still recall the noise and watching the…

I recall evaluating one of these at the autoshow when it came out. My first thought at the time echoes (pre-echoes?) the article. It didn’t really add anything new but comprehensively checked all the luxury boxes. My second thought was to keep an eye out when these it the used market rare as they may be. If I had a…

My car is twelve years years old.  I walk up to it, and with nothing in my hands push the button on the door handle and I’m in.  Why is doing this with the phone in your hand an advancement?  And while my phone running out of juice during the day is a rarity, unexpected things happen.  I depend on my phone a lot…

‘Cause anything ending with .9 sounds like you aren’t quite there yet.  I have to get past this every time I read about the Alpha V-6.

I can afford to buy it, but I probably can’t afford to own it.

This guy is clearly not ready to part with this car and I, like most everyone else I imagine, plan to help him with his goal.

I would add two additional factors to the discussion. The first is how those miles were accumulated. If the last owner ran up miles running back and forth on the rural highway between his and his family’s small towns, those could be six digits of low impact miles compared to someone who slogged though stop & go…

This pic reminds me of another term from my Chicago suburb teen years: Skitching. This referred to the Darwin award-leaning activity of finding a lot like the one pictured above, grabbing onto a car’s rear bumper and hanging on as though water skiing as the car winds it way through the lot. The term and activity have…