not wrong at all....but they were all pretty slick...I remember when the trio of “diamond-star” turbos, particularly the top shelf AWD models, were perennial picks for Car and Drivers top 10 list..

So how much less Should I have to pay for a car delivered in flat gray primer?

Several years back, I had the misfortune of renting a Canadian market Captiva, a vehicle that didn’t seem to correlate with anything GM was selling in the states.

Damn, same thing happened to me, TWICE. Starting to smell like a conspiracy involving the auto industry, the banks and the gravity cartel

If two Georgia senate races have to be runoff because neither candidate captured more than 50% of the vote, and the seriously concerned voters turn out on January 5, the Democratic senate will beat on Mitchie so hard that Yertle’s mug will be frozen in that shit-eating grin 

my daughter reminds me with every car I bring home that if I suddenly croak, it’s hers, so make it either interesting or useful..(hinting for a pickup for the furniture she adopts...)

Maybe for the Feds, but I’ve worked for county and municipal governments in NY state, including management of a large fleet database, and anything used on a public road was plated.....and so I once received a red light camera ticket that included a photo of an offending sedan. The ticket was dismissed when I pointed…

downright refreshing to hear someone admit that their numbers might not be as solid as they were ballyhooed to be, and seem willing to subject his product to further scrutiny in the hope that the bottom line meets the ballyhoo

I once sat down with a friend, much beer and a JC Whitney catalog. Installing all of the hardware that Mr. Whitney promised would boost my horsepower, and compounding the maximum percentage by which each would raise that power in the proper sequence, my Karmann Ghia’s output was somewhere in the vicinity of 2,400…

beautiful cars, but that sparkley lighting makes them look as if they’re covered in bird shit.

...and specifically, fuck Hyundai dealers. While I don’t expect salespeople to be experts, able to recite detailed specs on every product they sell, I do expect them to know something about their damn cars. Twice, years apart, at two different Hyundai dealers, not only were the salesmen clueless, but as I described…

...forgot that he had a trunk full of Fizzies and Pop Rocks...

I second that for upstate NY (as a downstater) and add Upper Peninsula MI, the Florida Keys (one road, you learn to be patient) as pleasant to drive. CT and NJ are not. Anywhere in either state.

my first thought was “why only alloy wheels on the upgrades?” Give me steel wheels for maximum confidence (I have cracked some aluminum.....never but a dent in steel.

“Also, if you ever have a day go so badly that you wake up, cold, naked, maybe bleeding a little, and you’ve lost you wallet and everything, if you can at least crawl your way back to your car, you could still get in, cover yourself in floormats, cry and recover.”

Not only don’t I see there being much of a penalty for those wanting an EV but needing to tow, but a big benefit by using modular battery packs integrated into trailers. I’m currently building an electric scooter, and the plan includes a sidecar for cargo or a small canine passenger above a supplemental battery pack.

Moving into my first real apartment, in 1984, I borrowed my friend’s dad’s rusty, schoolbus yellow ‘63 Chevy Stepside, stacked my belongings in the bed, while my girlfriend insisting on riding in a rocking chair on top as I introduced myself to the neighborhood. Turned out I was one of the normal ones.

I hope they’ve done something about the flanges on the front struts. I had a 2013 veloster turbo, and if the right front wheel took a sharp hit - from one of new york’s native potholes - the lip on the downward face of the spring seat slammed into the brake caliper. By the time mine came off lease, it had a series of…

Assuming there’s an engine up front, I’d give that Audi a targa top and a pickup bed, ditch the wing and add a tailgate.......and so just gave myself another model car project for the winter, joining the 68 Charger convertible, 71 Camaro wagon, AWD Corvair and that thing that’s growing with all the extra pieces...

...and Gary Sinese’s was a roadster. May be a unique custom, but would have been at least as marketable as the ‘hardtop’...