as the former owner of a 2013 Veloster turbo, I concur that it’s a hoot, even with the paddle shifted automatic. just don’t try to drive in the snow.

Indeed. Tugs are the guardian angels of harbors and ports

Despite what the corporate planners seem to think, there really is an unmet demand for a truly compact pickup. And the argument that a full size truck can be had for nearly the same price as a a smaller one misses the point that a small truck satisfies the many of us that only want a truck to haul bicycles and furnitur…

I assume that it just happened to be towed by the nearest available truck with enough mass to stabilize the flying F-350. While they could have strung together a ten ton chain of Civics and Corollas, this seems to be the simpler solution.

A deer once hit my BMW while it was parked in my driveway. The beast had apparently been running across my neighbor’s lawn and didn’t notice the four foot drop from a retaining wall that ran along the driveway. It landed on the front fender of my X4, and slid across the hood, sufficiently traumatized to lose control…

so if you’re already traveling at the speed of light, and you turn your headlights on, where does the light go?

are we long-lost siblings?  that sounds like my mother (a legal secretary) fighting insurance companies whose staff never knew their contracts as well as she did

that’s what I was taught by my childhood (electrician’s son) best friend when we started playing with real cars and squeezing speakers into any empty space we could find

and wheel bearings that last more than 30,000 miles

love me them used dogs myself. one benefit unmentioned is that when they crap on the floor or piss in your shoes, you can blame it on their previous owner’s lack of proper maintenance, just like that used car that leaks fluids all over your garage floor

like just about everyone, I watched the movie for the scene, watched the chase three times and forgot about the rest. For my money, the Seven-Ups chase was the best of the era, ending as it does in my neighborhood. The big IF about Steve McQueen is whether his tough guy persona would have made a difference at the…

Why all the hate for BMW’s hatchbacks? I’ve owned four BMWs and four Subarus, each half sedans and half hatches. My only complaints are that the Subarus weren’t BMWs and that they couldn’t all be hatchbacks.

Of course. Why encourage a buyer to purchase a $$$ product, when you can offer them a “much better” bike for $$$$.

My best friend in high school drove a ‘63 Falcon. 170 cubic inches of muscle whose acceleration rivaled that of our faster skateboarding comrades. Bluish green with a red driver’s seat that he salvaged from a wreck at our local junkyard, it was the kind of car that drew little attention, most of it tinged with sad…

so what’s not to love....?

I had to get rid of my manually shifted WRX after a knee injury, and have since fallen in love with the ZF 8 speed automatic used in my BMW X4 and Mini Countryman, and even the 6 speed in my Veloster Turbo. The only downside to a good electronically controlled automatic with shift paddles is that they can’t be…

I never rode my motorcycle in snow, but as a pre-licensed teen who pretty much lived on a bicycle, it’s one of those things that you learn to master because you have to.

maybe, but that is a low bar

I bought a Samurai new in 1987 and got more value from that thing than any other new car I’ve ever owned. The first 120,ooo miles were cheap, fun and mostly on the road - driven several times between Cape Cod and the Outer Banks [when you find a woman that can enjoy a thousand mile road trip in a Samurai, marry her. I…

those severed appendages don’t necessarily have to be discarded or passed on to a salvage yard for a penny a pound. I once cut the roof off a rusty Corvair coupe, junked the body and used the roof to top a funky dog house