While the dealer network certainly is, not all their cars are garbage. I spent two years with a Veloster Turbo. It’s easy to see where the corners were cut, and I’d never consider long-term ownership, but the thing was a hoot to drive and as much fun as any car I’ve had. Axle hop nixed a quick launch, jarring pot…

Always dreaming of nearly everything else in Jaguar’s sublime history, but when the F-Pace was announced I thought I might actually be able to own a Jag that wasn’t a rebadged Ford. Got to know the salesman well, and after a few drives we were both convinced he had a sale. But the damn thing is so wide it could barely…

Thank you.

..not a rake, but the brand new broom my uncle’s family’s grocery store leaned against the checkout counter, for which unsuspecting customers were “accidentally” charged....(or so I’ve been told.....that store closed in 1968)

Mini Countryman. S is tolerable in every respect and excels in many, but I’ll soon be ordering a JCW.

I once spent a wonderful week in the Florida keys, enhanced by droptop driving a LeBaron convertible. It may be the cheeziest wheeled vehicle to qualify for a ‘Sport’ label, but I’d have long forgotten any compact sedan by now

I was once in a similar situation, and the company wanted its ‘overpayment’ back in cash. It took a ton of arguing to show them of how that would doubly screw us taxwise, but ultimately had them deduct the $ from future pre-tax earnings

”carbon” gives you a lot of flexibility to later remember that you’re a diamond dealer to claim you were hoping to trade the stones for an autographed, game-worn jockstrap from Herschel Walker.

yeah, but that’s pretty much all they did to make it memorable, and jacked the price up over six figures. Chrysler has all the parts to send the ICE 300 out in style, for less of an investment.

So, if you were safely secured in the panic room, and whoever induced the panic suggested that they might just sink boat with you in it...

back in the day, ads would specify that a car had R&H, radio and heater.

soooo......why do we see so many ads encouraging us to play state lotteries?

true, but the frunk provides additional capacity for cargo, pets and small children

Note that the lamented slushbox in that Legacy GT is Subaru’s best automatic ever, an electronically controlled 5 speed that was developed for the Tribeca SUV and only used otherwise in the Outback 3.0 flat six (Corvair flashback) and Legacy/Outback turbo 2.5. Their CVT drops every Subaru off my list but the BRZ

Me, experienced then with only little Suzukis and Kawasakis, once leaned my cousin’s Harley over too far while sitting on it, alone, in her garage. It took me fifteen minutes with a 2 x 4 to lever it back into a space that didn’t require an embarrassing explanation.

So when will we see an electric revival of the Amphicar?

a modern little powertrain.....thank you. I’m tired of 600 hp restomods......a 2 liter turbo four would fit that Healey nicely....how about a WRX powertrain in a replica 356, or a Nissan VQ 3.5 in a new Cobra....

not to mention that it has the clearest night sky east of the Mississippi

...coupled with rethinking of our use of prisons as ‘punishment’. Put violent criminals in prison to ensure public safety. Instead of paying to house, feed and provide medical care for nonviolent inmates, punish them with $$$ fines that go to victim restitution.

a tourism gimmick? any tourist who sees it is on their way from to somewhere to somewhere else on a route that would likely be the same whether the bridge was there or not....or has anyone gone so covid stir crazy that 32 feet of Lowes lumber is on their bucket list?