Found my 10mm box wrench on top of the Miata’s engine a year after installing a Jackson racing supercharger. Hey it came in handy to re tighten the intake tube that had just popped off.

Acura has had stop and go radar cruise for a while. Unfortunately the lane keeping feature is disabled under 45mph. Both work astoundingly well on our 2014, assuming you get behind a decent driver in traffic. I like following trucks in traffic now since the accelerate and decelerate slower, greatly improving the…

Wind in your hair? Please. There are no modern convertibles since windshields became so raked.

The Leaf is a foot longer and is perfect for two car seats. Obviously the range is a third of the Bolt (until the new one comes out). For in town errands and kid taxi duty it can’t be beat ($0.025 per mile excluding depreciation. Power is cheap where I live)

Atlanta to Seoul in the top floor of a Korean Air 747. 16hours? Don’t get jealous, they jammed more coach seats up there. The guy in the window seat NEVER GOT UP the entire flight. Thought he died. He woke up on landing like he’d just been cat-napping after I’d been through three rounds of beers and hangovers.

OMG! Which $500 car would drive in it?

“The black box is something Ron asked me to block out.”

Honda makes a sporty three row (or two row with decent cargo) that some trusted car reviewers seemed to like

I bought a Leaf. Polar opposite of my track prepped NA Miata and love them both as they a perfectly suited for their intended purposes.

Keep small humans Jalop!

We just got a three year old Acura with the radar cruise and the Lane Keeping Assist. I’m blown away how well this car drives itself on the highway. It will stay dead center in a lane of a major mountain interstate traveling 70mph without any steering correction. If you learn it’s limitations then it makes highway…

I reserved one on opening day for several reasons:

No Way Back, no sale.

1st Gear: When airbags go bad

In 14,000 miles on the Leaf, I’ve left the house only twice on a planned trip where I was going to go far enough away from home that I would have to rely on a charge to get home. I felt lucky it worked out on both counts. One was a free Nissan DC charger and the other was a $12 for 30 min DC charger. Free is bad but…

Keep in mind the Bolt is TWO feet shorter in length than the Model 3. Amazing that a RWD sedan is being compared to a compact FWD hatchback. But here we are on the cusp of the electric car consumer-driven revolution. I’d love to cross shop full electric versions of the BMW three series, Audi A4 and Tesla 3.

Similar experience driving the Widow Maker for about 4 miles. That car defined turbo lag till about 4500k and then queue the Millineum Falcon jump to hyperspace graphics. You had to have a quick clutch foot (bottom hinged?) ready so as not to overrev. And that was after getting a ride in a 993? Turbo (circa ‘94).

Literally buying a car right now. Sitting in the Toyota showroom and all is smooth sailing, but I’ll admit this is best case scenario. Helping my parents buy a new car with cash, no trade-in after at least 30 emails back and forth with the internet sales manager. Had check pre-written before I showed up, but wasn’t…

Credit to J. Clarkson for that one.

I heard wait a year till they work out the kinks. Like, electrical gremlins that leave you stranded kind of kinks.