First few days?

Hello friends. The Tech Review is a new format we’re trying around here. As cars become laden with more technology—some of it good, some of it not good at all and anathema to the kind of driving we like—we seek to test whether it all works or not. Please let us know your thoughts!

Finally, someone with the balls to spec a German car in a goddam color! None of this German rainbow shit:

Its a 2009-2013 Suzuki Grand Vitara dash

So, the battery’s dying, there’s no oil pressure, the doors don’t shut right, the car thinks it’s in Park, the check-engine light is on, and this person’s biggest concern is still their fuel economy?

“Meanwhile, can anyone call what kind of car this is supposed to be?”

The best “he got his” story on this subject I’ve heard reportedly happened in my state a few years ago when some dickbag rolled coal leaving a stoplight. The older gentleman in the convertible who got blasted in the face with sooty diesel exhaust took down the truck’s plate number and called the state police. Turns…

It’s all about compensating.

My ex wife’s dumb sociopathic cousin LOVED rolling coal in his Ram. He thought it was so f*cking funny to pull up next to some poor sap at a stoplight and permanently make their cloth interior smell of soot. Not to mention ruining their day, make them feel sick, and give them a memory to always be angry about. Guys…

The point is usually -

She has a self driving car. She doesnt know the drivers name and assumes he comes with the car.

Why is Bob Villa so angry? Did his old house fall down?

Found this out the hard way trying to part with my wife’s 228i M sport. Keeping it instead, perhaps the market will appreciate a manual no sunroof car in many many years - until then one helluva DD

Sometimes they are appropriate though..

No, some are funny

Cheap lav mic ran to a Zoom H1 gives pretty damn solid results. That’s what we did at Pikes Peak.

Dry.... lake.... bed....? They neglected to tell us that was there!

The original headline on this post was Can Driving School Really Make You A Better Driver? to which the answer is yes, very yes, extremely yes, as the standard level of driver training in this country is woeful to nonexistent.