Here’s the thing about the new Countryman - It’s the only AWD car available with a manual transmission that’s big enough to put a rear facing child seat behind a 6'+ driver. The back seat room is massive.

That’s incredible.

The best thing I’ve read all day

Until you have to clean them... but I still wouldn’t take them off my car

You speak the truth.

The new small frontal overlap crash tests are fascinating. This one is particularly spectacular the way the forces are deflected while the ancillary components disintigrate.

I’ll sit here proudly (okay maybe not proud) and declare that while I loath the Compass, I’ve always found the (outside) styling of the Nitro to be pretty nice, especially in RT trim.

Its probably not a suspension problem alone - I’d bet that its a combination of large suspension travel, blown shocks and built up ice on the wheels/suspension. The ice throws everything out of balance and can limit suspension travel, combine that with a lack of dampening and you can get a really gnarly build up of…

I wish I’d know this years ago! Everything about him makes so much more sense now. Even his terribleness is kind of terradorable now.

Welp. You win. That’s never coming out of my head. Just like the i8 birthing a 911.

From living in various places I’ve come up with a helpful series of analogies to help calibrate my expectations when driving in a given area -

You got my sloppy seconds! I didn’t “try” to trail that thing - I trailed it. And I trailed the shit out of it.

Dammit. Now I can’t unsee.

A Breakthrough: Your scalp.

Yes! More juicy technical write ups please.

This makes me happy.

I’d argue that its more believable than The Fast the Furious movies, at least in terms of obeying the laws of its own universe...

Or “Florida” for that matter ..,

Florida + HOA = Its happened

Use Lada when entering and exiting water.