My Focus ST will do a drift if I enter a turn and let off the gas. It super fun. It will also do this on pavement.

I have friends that advocate a light and fast pull of the handbrake to initiate a momentum drift as opposed to using left foot braking. Though left foot braking should be in every driver’s bag of tricks.

So all those exchanges between dealers, and no one bought it between the original owners and you?

I’m pretty sure the person who gets my wife’s 2006 that we sold last year, will get some use out of it and curse themselves for buying a used PT Cruiser. That’s like buying a used beer can. We used that car up. But it…

My wife always reminds me that, “There’s no such thing as a positive automotive stereotype.”

I still don’t think I’d ever consider buying a BMW, Mercedes, Audi, or another Porsche based on the people who drive them. I really don’t want to feel that way about Tesla.

Only a handful of models came with an LSD. And we probably wouldn’t have gotten them. And America would have just regarded it as another Eclipse.

I can just see all those FTOs spinning their right front tire all the time. What was the torque steer like? Would it have torque steer with a 2 liter V6?

It’s funny. My wife and I were watching Jay Leno’s Garage on DVR, and were commenting on how much more Top Gear it is than Top Gear itself. Except for the fact that Leno is one of the slowest drivers on Earth in a fast car or bike.

Last night’s show was the most Top Gear of the New Top Gear UK. It’s still not quite…

Last I checked, there were an estimated 55 million gun owning households in the US. The NRA represents less than 10 percent of them.

I’m pretty sure that when you’re at the point of technological advancement where you can actually create an engineering solution for spinning up a planet, you can do so without altering its orbit. The small geomagnetic field increase wouldn’t reach or affect Earth or the moon significantly, though you might have to…

I’m really not ready for autosexual porn.

Because the eagles keep attacking you?

Right? Unless you’re tied to some sort of atmospheric mining operation, you’d be better off making it a space station orbiting the planet. Be a whole lot cheaper too, since it wouldn’t have to withstand acidic atmospheric winds that eat away just about any metal or plastic.

I was thinking more along the lines of a big electric motor powered by solar winds. But that’s an idea too.

If you have the technology to geoengineer a whole atmosphere, you have the technology to spin a planet up to a reasonable day cycle.

Invest in Pacific Northwest property while it’s still relatively affordable.

These sorts of ideas are starting to look a lot like the more likely route we’ll have to go. CO2 in the atmosphere has a very long life, in the 25 to 50 year range. If we cut CO2 emissions to zero TODAY, we would still see dramatic…

I believe you have that very, very wrong. But in that case, she’s the one making a mistake, because such a driver loves his car more than her. Not a good prescription for a successful relationship. Same for motorcycles.

Can Am died for a lot of reasons. Oil crisis. Recession. General lack of interest in the series due to poor marketing. The least important reason it failed was due to who dominated the race series.

Generally, America lost interest in road racing in the 70s. The Formula 5000 series that came after Can Am failed too.

I…

And bring back the vacuum cars like the Chapperal 2J and the Brabham BT46B. If they can use that technology and still make the fuel economy requirement, they should be allowed to race.

Toyota still deserved to lose, because they don’t put their lessons learned through their race technology, into their cars. A Toyota winning a race, completely gives Toyota buyers the wrong impression. Toyota should not be able to sell a single car based on winning a race. Toyota makes boring cars, and their race car…

Even an old, rattly C5 with torn seats, windows that won’t roll down (or up) and one headlight stuck in the up position (or down), is a lot of fun to drive.

From my own experience, it’s best to meet your future spouse while driving the shitiest, lamest car on Earth. It’s a good indication she might actually care about y…

Did Jeep stop putting parking brakes in their cars? I mean, they are called parking brakes for a reason.

I forgot to set my parking brake once in a parking lot in my manual transmission Trans Am. The car was on a slight incline, and while I was in Costco, rolled back. Into the trailer hitch of a Range Rover. Wrecked…

The NRA is now a trade group, and has been for more than a generation. Gun control, by its nature, will reduce gun sales. And reducing mass shootings or the severity of them, also reduces sales.

The NRA’s position, is similar to that of the fossil fuel industry and global climate change denial...which is that any…