Have you seen the cost of college these days? I’d have dismembered him too. Doesn’t bode too well for my kids unless they get their grades up, but they still have time. 

Get Congress to stop mandating higher structural content, and the manufacturers will get right to work on it. Sadly, they have used light weight materials, and they have used less structure with higher rigidity, but then there is side impact safety, frontal offset strengthening, and you are driving a tank made of…

This is a bit of a catharsis to me. I remember reading on Jalopnik some years back a younger member of our societal cohort bemoaning how large in diameter old steering wheels used to be, an opinion I do not share. I don’t much like smaller steering wheels because to make them work, you have to boost the power steering…

This is a wonderful story, and I thank you for it. You should be on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee! [Never thought I could get back to the thread, but here we go.] Also, technically I think that is the longest drive one can have in the UK without the use of a ferry.

As much as I hate Tariffs, and I am happy to see them go good or bad so yay or whatever, but as a trade off this sounds like a net lose to the US. I also wonder whether the French Auto industry would accept a tariff free relationship with the US. For the Germans, it is not a problem, they are the top dog at marketing…

GM sold Vauxhall to Peugeot the same time they sold Opel. They are trying to sell Chevrolets directly to the Europeans, which is going as hideously as one might expect.

It is amazingly efficiently sculpted car, ever so slightly tear dropped to a cam tail, and the hood lifts seamlessly into the windscreen. I have been in love with Guilia sedans for a long time. They also have good interior room for four with luggage.

That brick like handsome old Alfa had a lower drag coefficient than a 911, and the same mechanicals as a GTV.

Henry Kissenger to Elon Musk, “Just because you are paranoid Mr. President, does not mean that people aren’t out to get you.”

This reminds me of when I saw the car that finished first in ‘68 and ‘69, the Gulf liveried GT40. A friend drove me over to Bourneville in Birmingham, UK to see some Aston Martin’s that were parked in an abandoned store front. The windows were filthy. I looked in, and saw the GT40 first and my jaw dropped. The only…

Had a neighbor who brought home two big trees with giant root balls in the back of his F150. The back end looked like this one did after the rock hit it. I asked him if he wanted some help getting those out of his truck before his suspension blew. He looked confused and told me that he was going to plant them tomorrow…

I have to agree. I have driven my CTS V Wagon past their offices numerous times, and have never even bothered to stop in and get coffee, and no one on the street seemed to care a fig ... unlike the valets at the Book Cadillac in Detroit who asked me a million questions about it, like how did I get across Ohio without…

I am thinking of driving up to meet my friend who works the panini station at Eaterly. How much of a stipend will Cuomo give me if I promise to eat a sandwich while I am there and urinate in New Jersey on my way home?

Dead convenient for loading the kids in and out of, but they are heavy and suck gas. Having only two mini people I went wagon because for the same gas mileage I was able to drive them at 192MPH. That meant something to me, and it meant something to them when my first son’t first word was VROOOOOOOOM. Most people…

And of course you are wrong. He nailed it. Sedans are much quieter than wagons, and I say this as a guy who currently daily drives a CTS V Wagon, but has had more normal Volvo 245s in the past. I also own two sedans, a 2006 Jaguar XJ8 Vanden Plas, and a 1972 Mercedes Benz 280 SE 4.5. The pleasant feeling of driving a…

I stopped at a gas station and a Kmart in Tucumcari. I bought a watch at the Kmart for $5. It got stolen the next day.

I was once in Tucumcari sitting at a light, and this extremely drunk guy took his foot off the brake and rolled back into me very, very slowly. He then got out of the car and started screaming at me that I had hit his car. I explained that he was way too drunk to make that conclusion, and he screamed louder. I asked…

And it was shocking when this movie was in the theaters. The rounded design language of the Taurus was copied by every manufacturer, but before that car was introduced in this movie every car was as boxy as a Caprice, as they had been since the early sixties. The Taurus changed everything.

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Great job Torch! You have become the go to guy on the definition of a lousy car, and that is nothing to sneeze at. Before the Lane Museum and you obsessing most people thought a Pacer was a lousy car. Oh it can get so much lousier than a Pacer as we now know.