Mom's in for a shock.

I'm totally with you on that. It added just a bit more fun to driving once I got the hang of it. I have a right-hand, hook on-ramp on the morning drive. Zip up to it, blip down a couple of gears and moderate the throttle to kick out the rear just a tad and it's a better wake-up than coffee. Coming up the on-ramp with…

It did take me some practice to be able to do it ok, but if I can do it, I'm sure it can't be that hard. Heck, now I can throttle-blip all the way down from 5th to 2nd under hard braking into a tight corner. It helps to have familiarity with the gearing of your car to time things right and match the revs.

Hmm...I wouldn't know, not having a Toyota, but I wonder if my folks would enjoy some mods on their aging Camry? "Surprise mom! Sport suspension! Now you can totally out-handle everyone in the book club!"

Plus t-shirts! Sleeveless to show off the ink, naturally. If you show up, I'm sure he'll sell you one. Heck, I'd wear it if it came in a more sleevey variety.

Suppose they're going with the jam paradigm? "With a name like Smucker's it has to be good!"

Yep, least flattering tuner-brand.

Had my last one for 15 years, and well over 200k miles, basically until it wore out. I expect to have at least one if not both of my current cars for at least that long. Longevity, durability and ease of maintenance are major shopping points for me.

I do think that it would be a shocking oversight and a mistake not to feature the rich panoply of craziness that is southern California's hotrod culture. At the same time, I'm not upset about Petersen selling off later-model Ferraris and such. We see plenty of those cruising the boulevards. I don't mind French…

I might consider that. Hasn't been any of the ones I've been to yet.

As I said, if they earn it, I'll wear the logo. If the product I buy has a label, fine. I bought it with the label. I never buy clothing with visible logos, sports or otherwise (except for my club logo, they're non-profit) if possible (can't hardly buy decent jeans and athletic shoes without), and while I don't go…

Fine if you like stickers. Not me. Nobody gets something for nothing. If I feel that a company has treated me extraordinarily well and has great products that I feel good about using, maybe I would consider showing off their logo, but I refuse to simply carry logos for the sake of carrying logos. They have to earn it…

Would you like those shoes as much if you had to get them with a "Footlocker" sticker pasted on the side?

Would you like those shoes as much if you had to get them with a "Footlocker" sticker pasted on the side?

In this case, you pronounce the "x".

Except that no such agreement is stated or implied. The transaction happened and now it's over. They have my money and I have the product. That's where it ends. If someone asks where I got the car or whose muffler I'll tell them, but unless there is something included in the deal, I don't do free advertising. The…

Oooh, evolution! I didn't think they were capable of that.

#3: The only reason I can conceive of for pasting a bunch of corporate logos on your car is if they paid you to put them there. Heck, the first thing I do when I buy a car is take off the dealer license plate frame and/or placeholder plate blank. They didn't give me any compensation for advertising their business.

Yes, there's a reason the first thing they want to do is get your contact info when you show up to ask about a car.

I'm quite sure I don't like the front. In a reach for distinctive styling cues that they can carry across models, they overreached. Side view? Yes, very nice.