With my daily without fail it is Monday morning 5am at the Sheetz, on my way to work. I will have just under (what the gauge calls anyway) 1/4 tank. The SVX on the other hand with its average of 4 days a month of spirited driving and a fuel gauge that reads high or low at random, it’s pretty much every other time I…

You can actually play that game going between different counties here. If you’re really good at it you can guess the population, median income and largest industry within the county. It’s amazing how forgotten the “Pennslytucky/Pennslyabama” roadways are, so much so you can physically feel yourself enter them with…

Pennsylvania. Every road that’s not brand new has pot holes. Due to the heavy limestone bedrock in my area of the state we have horrible sinkholes that swallow up whole streets or have long vacant quarries just cave in. A road at the other end of my county is a STATE HIGHWAY that has now had THREE bridges build…

You can compare Sheetz and Wawa, and they’re both good gas stations and convenience stores, but there is another PA based chain that is criminal to overlook... Rutter’s! Sure they don’t have nearly the number of locations (only 79) that the other two have, but if you ever find yourself is South Central…

What they need is a psychic, a necromancer and the corpse of Lee Iacocca and they’ll be back to business in no time flat! 

Suzuki Kizashi, they came with quite a bit of hype back in 2009, affordable, small, AWD car. Like some kind of alternate dimension Impreza almost. I saw one at an Auto Show at the time, and I have in the last 11 years seen exactly 2 in the wild. I mean Suzuki was never a wildly popular brand in my part of the US but…

Now that you mention it, it’s been a minute since I’ve seen one. I am fairly certain it’s because they all returned to the earth. At one point in the late 2000s my family had a fleet of them. My personal one was the last to go about 10 years ago, it still ran and drove great at 205,000 miles but PennDot made a point…

I came of driving age in the late 2000s when gas in my area was already $4+ a gallon and I drove a car that averaged 16mpg. I can not see this as being any worse for me anyway than 2008 where I made far less money and had to drive far more. For others I haven’t really heard, but if it cuts down on the fart can having,…

I absolutely agreed with them on the “Fair” condition when it came to the buy back though. Can’t beat $25! Its still a nice car in front of the B pillar, runs and drives, it’s just a few inches shorter on the driver’s side and missing some mighty expensive glass that’s all. I’ve been looking for a BJ body Legacy to…

Amen! SAVE YOUR RECEIPTS! That alone raised insurance value on my first SVX over 500% of insurance company’s first offer, which was an insult and less than the price of just the exhaust system, before fab work and install. In my 5 years of SVX ownership I watched the market value of these cars rise quite a bit, to…

My mother was the one to actually *TEACH* me to drive a manual. Sure my father was the one who deserted me 70 miles from home in my first stick vehicle, because “You’ll either learn by the time you get home or you wont.” But my mom actually took the time to teach me how the clutch worked, how to feel for the clutch’s…

Touché 

Frequent visitor of Tijuana are we?

Anything that’s not necessary in the act of getting from point A to point B. Not that I would actively snub a car with all the bells and whistles, but I don’t need them. Do I own a car with a sunroof, yes. Is that why I bought it, no. You can run that check down any number of upgrade items in a car , sure a car I own…

Thank God they aren’t stealing automatic seatbelts! Phew I’m safe.

In my defense it was my boss’s brand new Jeep and I was doing it on the clock (at my carpentry job of all places).

And if you have an aftermarket head unit in your car that does Bluetooth, make sure you connect the wire to the parking brake switch, because some models make it impossible to clear your phone from its storage without doing it. I installed a system in my boss’s Jeep a few years back and I skipped that step, I synced…

Hmm... So that’s not cool, like at all.

That could quite possibly be the most sincere thing anyone has ever said to me, I would give you two stars if I could!

I like how in the US we just cut the crap and called it a string of Alphanumeric characters and totally dropped the Sierra part, too much work!