Did you ever own a Ranger? I had an 88 model, bought new and drove it for 10 years and 160,000 miles. It was an OK vehicle, but damn was that standard cab ever cramped!

This one simply doesn't generate any sort of visceral response from me. Can we get a 'meh' button?

..or calcium carbide fueled acetylene lamps from ca. 1902.

When I bought new car this year I really wanted a Fusion (Mondeo) wagon. But there were two things that kept me from buying one: First was the fact that Ford won't offer it in the states, preferring instead to give us the Escape. The second is you can't tow anything with a Fusion. Ok the first reason was the biggest,…

You hit on the key figure: what does the C7 weigh compared to the C6? In this day of increasingly bloated cars which seems to go hand in hand with our increasingly obese population, we tend to forget that power alone is not responsible for thrills. Power-to-weight ratio is what gives the thrills.

Georgia is in the process of issuing new plates to everyone this year. They started with PAAxxxx then went to PABxxxx and so on. I told my wife that with my luck, I'd get PEExxxx for my new 2013 Subaru. I was on a business trip when she called to tell me my new plate had come in and it wasn't PEExxxx, it was POOxxxx!…

Drum machine - check.

I had a white 77 Celica. Great car and I wish still had it. I remember thinking how badass it was. But in the early 80's we thought all 90 HP cars were badass. Even Corvettes had only something like 148HP in those days. And these days I think my 170HP Subaru could use a few more ponies. Something closer to my wife's…

There's a guy around here who has a Ford GT in Gulf livery and it looks *fantastic*! But that's about the only car/livery combo that would. Everything else makes you look like a teenage fanboy. Might as well drive a 69 Charger painted up like General Lee.

Ah, good old Col. Poole's Hill O' Fame BBQ in East Ellijay, GA. You should have seen it when the restaurant was little more than a couple of old motorhomes serving pulled pork sandwiches and Brunswick stew out of window. They eventually had a fire and build the new place. The old Plymouth Volare wagon pig-mobile…

Oh I get the appeal of the opposite lock thing. But there are more interesting ways to have competitions where a big handful of opposite lock is needed: WRC rallies, rallycross racing, and for that matter the dirt track up the road has plenty of drifting every Saturday night. Competitive drifting is the rhythmic…

No, because there are a lot more old Chevy and Ford 4x4 pickups around here to scavenge parts from. Their formerly alive, now zombie owners probably won't care if you swipe their power brake booster when yours fails. And if they do, I hear a head shot will convince them otherwise.

Every time I watch drifting, I am reminded what a vapid and pointless pastime it is. Because it's subjective, you cant call it a sport. In that regard, it's like ice dancing, just more unpleasant to watch. With drifting, you've got the sounds and smells of tortured tires, bad anime haircuts on the drivers, slutty…

Anything seen on Motorweek TV. How that show has been around for 32 seasons is beyond me. The shows put me to sleep faster than golf, the sport not the car.

The 10" wheels are no problem. Just toss them and fit some 22's you tossed from some of the other NP or CP finds you bought recently.