I’ve got squeaky rear brakes in one of our cars. Two or three years back I replaced just the pads without doing anything with the rotors, knowing this would eventually be the result. In the spring I’ll probably put in all four new rotors and new pads.

It might depend somewhat on where you are. I personally knew five people who died from COVID, and not all of them were old. Six if you count my father. He died last September, and while he had a lot of health problems and his death certificate doesn’t say anything about COVID, he got it and died a month later, still…

What’s with Chicago coyotes lately? I just saw something about a coyote in a Chicago grocery store.

Mine was a 1985 Escort, 2-door in a darker blue than your picture. I actually bought it brand new when I was 18 years old, with a down payment from selling my first commercial software product. I believe it was just over $6,000 new in 1985. Manual transmission, manual locks and windows, no air conditioning. Still the…

I’ve been surprised that our 2016 Ford Fusion does do that to an extent. It’s the 2.0L turbo with a 6-speed automatic, and while it’s not at all perfect, it does make a decent attempt to automatically downshift when I’m going down hills, especially steeper ones. At first I thought it was only when cruise was on, but…

I honestly don’t know a lot about them, but I saw one on the highway a month or so ago, which is really unusual here in rural Illinois, and it was a stunning looking car. Really got my attention.

I knew I liked you. You have a Neon, and you’re a Rush fan? Just more evidence of what a right-thinking person you are.

I experienced something like this. One of our daughters lives overseas, but her “U.S.” address is ours for mailing purposes. I had to sign a form with my insurance company providing her overseas address and stating that she didn’t live with us.

You shouldn’t be able to see the side of your car in the driver’s side mirror. Adjust your dang mirrors correctly.

Can’t argue with that basic idea, but a turbo 4-cyl probably has fewer parts than a naturally aspirated 8-cyl.

Around there there are signs on the interstate on-ramps that say “Minimum speed 45mph” even.

There is performance to consider. It’s pretty safe to assume EV sports cars are going to be faster than ICE ones. As we saw with that insane Ford van yesterday, some of the fastest vehicles in existence are electric, and we’ve already got a lot of electric sedans that are faster than most ICE sports cars.

Yeah, I was thinking even in my SRT-4 Neon I used to get about 2 laps per gallon on the track. I’m still driving it more than 21 years after I bought it, and it’s pretty normal on gas for a 2.4L making about 300hp. I get 28-30 on the highway and 25-26 around town.

Hope you’ve had a good year!

When I lived in a Dallas suburb, at least the school zones there always had lights that flashed when it was in effect. Years ago when I moved back to rural Illinois, I found that the school zone signs say, “On school days when children are present.” I had to look up on the state attorney general’s site what that means…

Man, this reminds me of several years ago when I was following a car in town that started being very erratic. Slowed way down, sped up again, eventually turned a corner, jumped the curb and drove down the sidewalk. At the next intersection narrowly missed a fire hydrant and ran down the stop sign. By the time it…

Ha! I also had General AltiMaxes as winter tires on my SRT-4 for years, and it was just last Saturday that I swapped my summer Toyos for a new set of Blizzak WS90s. Like you suggested, I keep the winter tires on a set of stock wheels and the summer tires on my treasured old Centerline Storms. I love a clean 5-spoke…

Incognito mode, I hope

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600 hp is already enough to get this car to a low 9-second ET, isn’t it? It surely can’t weigh much more than 2000 lbs.