12 years ago, I knew people who were involved in supplying UVA athletes with various things they wanted. Boosters bought starters $40K(60Kish today's money) cars to use until they signed with a pro team, the most popular choices of the time being BMW M3s and Toyota Land Cruisers. Boosters also provided them with…

Just don't complain about your college loans approaching six figures.

Why are you cutting people off and swerving? Are you the one driving the Pilot?

This is a fat load of 'look at how the people we hate are all terrible drivers' piece of self delusion. Sure, there are some bad drivers in Camrys and SUVs and minivans. No doubt. There are millions of drivers in Camrys, SUVs, and minivans. If a meaningful percentage of them were bad, every trip involving getting near…

The Saab 95's third row always struck me as an ambitious use of space. Those must be very small children.

It was her old car and had an automatic!

"The bigger issue here is the belief that racing cars (in some mysterious series with a 10-mile-long straight) have their power inputs controlled from a woman with a headset on a computer located somewhere off of the track. All she has to do is input a few keys but... but... she's got a raging headache!"

I can't believe it wasn't mentioned. I'm getting old. Also conspicuous with their absence were the Miller 91 or 122, the Mercer Raceabout, the Stutz Bearcat, the Chrysler CD-8, and various Vipers. Without the Millers to buy and reverse engineer, Bugattis would have remained goat carts.

My mom doesn't drive cars with manual transmissions, which explains why in the past I've turned down a hand-me-down Porsche with 43K miles.

The fewer they sell, the less of my tax money is wasted buying $40K econoboxes built by people I despise for self righteous ignoramuses who often have more money than I do.

Agreed. People have short memories and forget how upset everyone was when the last Impreza was released, and how upset they were when the one before that was released. Remember the face lift that the first US market WRX needed to stop looking like a practical joke? The only problem I have with this one stylistically…

As a cyclist, this is an easy question for me to answer. Something about driving a Range Rover makes people scared silly about getting within eight feet of the center line. We have bike lanes many of the places where I ride, but I've lost count of how many times a month silver Range Rovers drive by close enough for…

Cunningham C4-R.

Stop the video at 2 seconds and go to full screen. The order from right to left is brown Datsun, beige Ranger, silver Mitsubishi/Dodge, beige Toyota, black Chevy S10.

I was about 17 years old, and I felt fine. I sat in the seat on one side of the tunnel and had my feet in the well on the other side. There is little chance that a CRX with a back seat would have been any more accommodating. My father, who was in his late 40s at the time, also took a turn in the back seat for 150-175…

I'm not trying to denigrate them! My neighbor had a 1969 Spider Veloce 1750, and I coveted it for decades. They just weren't entry level in my opinion. It isn't an insult. Find someone who owns one and tell him it is just like your old MG Midget if you think I'm alone in my view.

The CRX was a two seater in the US. I know that 2+2 seats were offered in other markets, but not here. The 2nd generation Mazda RX-7 was available as a 2+2 in the US. My Fiat 124 Sport Spider had a back seat. Was it a sports car? Almost every Porsche of any importance had a back seat. Was the 356 a sports car? The…

You seem to have roadster and sports car confused. While all roadsters are sports cars, not all sports cars are roadsters. And no definition of either involves rear wheel drive.

Alfa's sports cars were never entry level. In 1971, an Alfa Romeo Spider was $5K when MG Midgets, Fiat 850s, and Triumph Spitfires were well under $3K.

The Boxster wasn't entry level and it took more than a decade for Porsche to supply it with an engine that isn't known to be an epic fail.