This was a surprisingly major part of my choosing the Honda Accord over the Fusion and the Mazda 6. With the Mazda, you can’t see out the back very well. With the Fusion, you can barely see out the front! The A-pillar is huge and angled terribly. I felt like I was craning my neck the entire time I was driving it.

You make an excellent point. When the Russians invaded and wrecked the Eastern Seaboard, my mind snapped right back to a shot from the first mission, where the USAF is flattening a building in Afghanistan and the troops in your unit are laughing and filming it with their phones. Hours later, it’s happening to your…

Four wheels good, eight wheels bad.

I have it on good authority that the Germans did some bad stuff in the 1930s-40s but, after what this kid did to that Porsche, I think maybe we’re squaresies.

Longtime LA driver here. LA is hell, but it’s also heaven. Late at night, when the traffic has finally subsided, the freeway system becomes the miracle it was originally designed to be. Fast, fluid, fun, and astonishing in how far it can take you. Furthermore, if you happen to live or work near the Hollywood Hills,…

This man could not be more evil if he wore live puppy-soled shoes.

Eh, not dangerous enough.

Good point. Guess they’ve left another gig they can use to shove more money at Lockheed Martin!

I know nothing about nothing, but my hunch would be that the Humvees will be shoved over to that role, while the new... thing will do the job of the hastily up-armored hummers.

There’s an HVAC actuator somewhere under the dash that makes a repetitive snapping sound when you first start the car, but only if the air system is on and set to use outside air. If you switch to recirculate, or run the car a while, it goes away. I’ve just learned to avoid it until the next service appointment, where…

I've only heard whispered tales. Very hard for me not to go with the 1911, which I have had some experience with. The Python is just so simple by comparison.

Phone: iPhone 4/4S. Minuscule by today's standards but still the prettiest phone they ever made.

I like Force India but for the love of Emerson Fittipaldi's mutton chops, can we please stop making every car black and pewter? McLaren's already gone dark and dull, don't lets have Force India ditch their riot of color for this too! Even the Williams added a bunch of black for reasons that escape me. That white…

The Force Awakens... a Couple Times a Night to Pee.

My first car was a four-door LE. Good little car. Steering was quite good and it accelerated well enough if you gave the pedal enough shoe. Alas, it had a flaw that could be literally fatal. That car had some TERRIBLE brakes. They were tiny and did a lousy job of bringing it to a halt. I don't think I ever knew how…

First off, thanks for sending me off on an F-8/A-7 geekout. So that was helpful to my life. Seriously though, really good article. I'd been aware of the F-8/A-7 for a while, but I had no idea it was actually a hard-turning gunfighter of an air-to-air platform. Goes to show how pernicious appearance bigotry can be. The…

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Easy recommendation: the Beyerdynamic Custom One Pro. Has four-position sliders on the back of each can that switch the bass from treble-forward analytical sound all the way to Beats-style thump. You can rattle your cage with bass then switch over and enjoy totally sweet trebles in jazz, classical, acoustic guitar,…

I was at a 2pm showing of this in Boca Raton and some genius decided that this was a good field trip for a group home for mentally handicapped individuals. I don't profess to be an expert on their various conditions, but clearly one of them was unequal to the task of seeing that movie, as he spent the entire showing…