Damn, this one is more expensive, but has a better name: the Freshette.

For reference, Torch, you should have talked to anyone with a single-engine private plane without its own head. There are commercially available options that don’t involve NASA-level prices. Oh, and you may be surprised that they do have an adapter for the ladies. Peeing while driving and/or flying: It’s not just for…

Shit. Maybe it was the location (head/hands/feet) that you needed to specify in the iDrive controller. Whatever it was, I spent part of everyday behind the wheel trying to figure it out. Then again, it was a convertible, so for most of the days I had the car, it didn’t really matter.

I can not, for the life of me,…

They’ve seen how well others do by cutting corners, how customers’ perceptions are not affected almost at all by their huge efforts in making the products really great from the fundamental to details, and marketing has much more importance. So they seem to have decided to stop trying, cash in on their earlier amazing…

Uh, I think I disagree and once they worked out the bugs by 2008 or 2009 or so, it was pretty impressive. I have driven an awful lot of BMWs from about 1995 to the present (with lots of classic ones thrown in for good measure).

Most states I’ve lived in have mandatory annual or bi-annual inspections (you just pay double, as absurd as that sounds). I think that instead of “waging war on the poor,” I’d call it lining their pockets with the money from industry lobbyists. Er, make that “accepting their generous campaign donations.”

See the power…

It's a Buick, so it's driver probably bought the car on a last-time buyer's plan.

The Mazda6 seems to work on paper, but in the real world does not add up to the sum of its parts. And I love the Mazda3, so they just need to sprinkle a little of that 3 juju on the 6 and call it done.

Like the Lincoln Blackwood, this thing has Leftorium written all over it.

In the early Aughts, Mitsubishi pulled off some scary financial jujitsu that at first included 0 down, 0% for five years, then 0 down 0% for five years plus no payments for the first year, then 0 down, 0% for five year, no payments for the first year and Mitsubishi pays you $50 a month for six months. All with easy…

For what it's worth, all of those different triangles remind me of the Goodyear Eagle GA, a tire released in 1989, on the first Lexus LS400, of all things. The idea behind the GA, which was billed as a luxury performance tire, was that each tread block was a slightly differently sized triangle. The engineers surmised…

No sunroof.

What else needs to be said?

As such, Toyota will offer unionized workers their biggest pay lift in 13 years, which is about 3.2% on average or $32.94 a month. Not a huge amount, but it's a big deal for Japanese companies.

Posing for fun and games or actually getting locked up? Do tell.

How can Detroit up its profits to match foreign automakers?

Unfortunately, the obligatory Corvette jacket is satin...shiny, black satin and not leather. But it does have a giant cross-flags logo stitched into the back.

It is amazing that a trendy car from Europe can make Korean cars look not only well screwed together from high-quality materials, but also more refined in road manners, handling, NVH, measured performance, satisfactory driving performance and so on and so forth. And I am talking about comparing to a goddamned Kia Soul!

My V70R's brakes never screamed and worked great. They did vibrate after a while, so then I replaced them with new Brembo rotors and some decent pads. No terrible sounds at all and awesome, Bremborific tailhook stopping sensations.

New Englander here from a place that genuinely requires an all or four-wheel drive vehicle for five months of the year, sometimes more.

The only Land Crusher on the lot at the local dealership sat for months and months and months. A 2013, it was still available until at least November of 2014, prominently parked in…

But it's still a goddamned bro truck (nice term, by the way) that can smoke most four-door sedans and plenty of sports cars around a paved track, in M guise, at least.