I’d like to see one of these kitted out as a nice mini-camper. We don’t have much (any?) of that breed in the states anymore, but if it’s this strong and handles / parks in a reasonably car-like manner, it could be perfect.

I nearly wound up with an 80’s Dodge Laser turbo as my first car. Velour seats; turbo lag for days — I liked it. But the woman who was selling it was up to something. She let on at one point that she was going through a divorce, and we noticed there were people coming by to look at a fishing boat on a trailer she was…

She’s got a stellar idea, there.

Wow. It’s up to $21,000 with 74 bids. I think she’s great, but I don’t see the quadruple (quintuple? sextipple? Okay that last one is not right) value. Selling a destroyed 2005 beater — respected Accord or not — for $21k+ guarantees only “a crazy super fan” will be buying it.

VW 2.0 TDI motor
- 150 hp
- 236 lb-ft
- 43 mpg
It’s a “base” engine because it is the lowest-spec VW commuter diesel we get in the U.S. No diesel clatter or clouds of soot. 400+ miles on a tank. Smooth, quiet, and shockingly great at top-gear passing. Near-perfect commuter car engine, and actually fun on the highway.

Isn’t the biggest issue just the fact that VW started shipping their amazing, award-winning MQB platform architecture a year ago, but made the American market wait until really just NOW to get them?

I was awaiting the the supposed arrival of the Golf GTD, but not only did that not happen, but VW withheld the whole 2015…

That was such a fun shortcut in Fallout II (old person here). Run across the desert to the locations you don’t “know about” yet; grab power armor as a very low level character; enjoy boosted strength and durability way ahead of schedule. Being able to shortcut a few things like that made the game more re-playable than…

Joe Piscopo rode my Jungle Cruise boat at WDW (Orlando) with his wife and child in the mid-90’s and, at his sole discretion, had us fill the boat normally, with 28 or so other passengers. They were pleasant to everyone and took no special treatment other than being back-doored onto the ride (understandable given that…

That is a beautiful coupe. Love the green paint and those Euro-headlights. Gorgeous.

So ugly it ... just continues to be ugly.

I always thought the front wing was exclusive to Hawaiin Tropic founder Ron Rice’s personal Countac? He loaned it out to the Cannonball Run shoot, so it’s been photographed a lot. It’s black, like that one. Saw it on the road a few times in Florida.

Looks like the spaceship a technologically advanced cockroach would fly.

This reminds me of how every once in a while when you’re looking for a nail clipper or a pair of socks or something on Amazon, you’ll find one listed for $100,000 or so. Weirder still, some of them don’t seem to be typos. Like, that’s ALWAYS the price.

BEWARE


I have a number of unjust biases based on vehicle type / appearance. The one I hold most dear was actually invented by wife, who observed there is a *color* of car that predicts cockeyed road behavior likely to cause mayhem. It is basically dark green, but specifically a kind of badly maintained, slightly…

Still the most successful space program in the history of mankind by a long shot.

Thirty-nine years; 135 missions — several times its planned lifespan of 15 years. No other country has ever come close to anything like a viable, reusable orbital craft. The Shuttle kept the U.S. at the pinnacle of spacefaring…

There a quite a few around me for some reason, and they actually look a little anonymous on the road. I like them, but until you catch something unique, like the black patch where the grille would be, when they’re coming at me or gliding by, there’s always a second or two where they just register as a generic luxury…

As an American, I can only hope to someday live in a country with sufficient wealth and technological advancement to have nice trains, and like, roads and bridges that aren’t falling to pieces.

Then again, we DO have the latest flying bomb robots, so there’s that.

Excellent piece — I did not know this, and needed to. Thanks.

Third-degree illumination burn!

I used to think as you. Then I got a few of these, looked at the pile of warped, scaling non-stick aluminum pans that I'd replaced over and over, and donated them all. These don't stick. They don't warp. They cook better. They last forever. You spend more on the non-stick and they never work as well. Plus…

I used to think as you. Then I got a few of these, looked at the pile of warped, scaling non-stick aluminum pans…