I feel like I have a high tolerance for less than beautiful vehicles, but the current M3 is a bridge too far. I don’t care how good it is otherwise, I just couldn’t own a vehicle that makes me throw up a little every time I look at it. 

I bought a used, out of warranty Audi once.

I once attempted to fix a rust spot in my driver’s side door with a wire wheel, some bondo, a piece of Tupperware (I cut the bottom out of a sandwich container), some duct tape, and a rattle can of orange primer.

Having two identical 2011 Honda Pilots.

I had been unemployed for eight months after recovering from major surgery and I made the decision to sell my 1970 Buick Wildcat convertible.

Selling my Laguna Secan Blue / Cinnamon interior 2002 BMW M3 coupe / 6MT to pay off my University loan (Canada eh !). That was 15 years ago. I will NEVER be able to find the same kind of E46 M3, let alone be able to afford one now. Huge regret, and one of the reasons I will be taking my E39 M5 to the grave with me.…

Having an aftermarket head unit and speakers installed by Best Buy. Once they were done with it the left and right audio channels were reversed, the dash wasn’t put back together properly, there were multiple warning lights flashing around the gauge cluster, and the parking lights no longer worked for some reason. The…

Sold my E36 M3 that I’d put the full Dinan package on—with the Vortech Supercharger. Gah. It developed an electronic gremlin in the dashboard where the “ding” it made on startup became a drone because the sound never ended. Or would end for a few seconds and then start up again for, say, the 2 hour drive back to Tulsa …

Not “immediately” per say. But I installed a throw-out bearing backwards. I got done and fired the car up. Pushed the clutch in and heard an awful noise. Decided to drive it around the block. About blew the input shaft off the transmission. Luckily I just needed a new throwout bearing, clutch fork and front plate that…

I passed on a MINT 1989 Porsche 911 coupe with less than 50,000 miles in Guards Red with the G50 transmission, full service docs, one-owner, for $18,000 in the mid-00's because I thought it would be too impractical

FML

About 20 years ago, I was on an early morning flight on a small CRJ regional jet from Lexington, KY to Chicago. We taxied out to the runway and then began to take off. As we were accelerating down the runway, just as the nose started to lift, we heard this BANG followed by some shuddering, and then we were up in the…

EV degradation curve is steep for the first year or two but then flattens out. In 2016 my model S could do 270 miles on a charge. I purchased it when it was 3.5 years old and had 50k miles on it; then it would charge to 250 miles. A degradation of 7.4%. Today my car has 135k miles on it. It charges to 242 miles, so…

Praseodymium would like a word.  As the only element with six syllables and a requirement for great music reproduction, it thinks all three of you can kick rocks.

If you’re going to name a pickup truck after a metal whose uses are as cool as its name, you won’t find much better than “tungsten.”

I am probably gonna swing towards a GSF because I need 4 seats. I wish those would get below $50k.

Perhaps we’ve been all wrong about Predators. Maybe they are misunderstood, textile-based creatures that were scorned in favor of modern technology in some way, many generations ago. In their quest for justice they’ve evolved and adopted uniquely advanced weaponry to fight for their true place in the galaxy.

A Jalopnik-like website promotes child abuse and is run by Nazis!

“...almost 20 years in orbit.” Launched in 1995. I feel you, author. I feel you.

But we need at least 19" wheels to fit over the 15" rotors that come with the 6 piston caliper Brembo brakes on the crossover that my wife drives to the grocery store and to take the kids to soccer practice. She needs to be able to consistently brake from 120 mph to 15 mph on those hairpin turns and do so without…

House, weighing as much as 137 Teslas, for sale.

The price ; only 18 Teslas from 2018.

Fully isolated ; only uses about 65 Tesla charges per year.