Credit is noted because you seem to have hit some choice spots.

I was going to make a snarkey comment about the U-haul doing the heavy lifting, but your photoes are just too pretty so I am going with that. What a beautiful travel log. Nice shots.

The interesting thing for me is the comparison between Mazda and Suzuki. They both were small Japanese firms trying to break into mainstream automotive manufacturing and get bigger. They both had massive hits with oddball cars, the Miata for Mazda [which I used to call the cockroach of the road by mid 1990 because…

When I start playing the game of what I would rather spend $40K on than a new Harley Davidson, my hand would cramp up before I could finish writing and would include the trip to Japan that I have always wanted to take, two more BMW R Nine Ts, a new car ... I feel like Monty Hall. Now THAT dates me.

3rd Gear What are the buses the Chinese are using? Is there any way to publish more information about them on the site? I would like to know more about their battery capacity, range and such. They do seem like a great idea for here.

I was thinking about these old catenary buses too. Where I live we went back to street trolleys instead of these buses, but one thing that was suggested years ago is if there were some way to include batteries in the buses, the catenary could be used for charging while they drive on certain routes as well as standing…

No in short. Gen Xers also don’t have the cash. We got shut out of the career path by the baby boomers and economic ructions. Besides, there are way better bikes for less money than a Harley.

Correct answer. You get a cookie.

I had a similar thing. A girlfriend (now my wife) called me in a panic because a snap snow storm hit in the afternoon, and she was unable to drive her Mercedes 560SL home from the train station. I drove over with a friend to take my car, and drove it back to her house. It was like driving on bowling balls. It has 15…

I sit in the “Let’s see if it we’ll make it camp”. Tire age is not a hard and fast rule to me. I have had tires dry rot to the point of leaking within three years, Bridgestones and a class action was brought by someone over their use of outdated compound at the time. I also have a set of Yokohama Avids on my 1972…

No, it is possible to blame young people pretty much forever. Wait until you are old, and you will see.

You are the style leader de Nysahishsvsngwehgeg was waiting for!

I own a 2nd gen CTS V, and I love its strong styling, simple technology and focus on driving. Since then I can find nothing I want to buy there. The styling is completely watered down. They said that this is for the Chinese market, and I can’t figure out which sedan is supposed to appeal to me, the XTS, CT6, CTS, I…

Yup he’s a total underpants gnome.

I had a ‘93 SE, same color, same options. Loved that car. I drove it 180,000 miles from new then sold it to a friend who agreed to sell it back to me after ten years. Ten years came, and he politely begged to keep it, which I let him. I was going to ask for it back eventually, but it got T-Boned at 320,000 miles.…

I love these photos! The nobility in those cars and the hard lives they have given on the highways of America. Those pictures are epic. Thank you.

Exactly. Even before he finished the sentence all I could think was, no, no it doesn’t actually handle this well, but I was too busy tightening my seat belt to actually say it.

My only real memory of a Camaro was being in highschool (and aren’t all memories of Camaros tied to being in highschool), and this kid driving his brand new, 1985 IROC Z with the 305 V8, when he said, “Here, watch how it handles,” just before he plowed straight into the side of a SAAB waiting at a red light.

Thanks! That was a great easy to understand explanation.

Sr. just filed for personal bankruptcy in March. That factoid made more sense to me than a meme coming around now of the two screaming at each other.