With a three on the tree manual transmission! I used to drive Ford work trucks in college with the 300/6 and 3 on the tree. Best combo ever!

Only place to build a car in Georgia is at the Kia plant in West Point. Lakewood is abandoned and folks are trying to get someone to invest a few hundred million to convert the site to something, anything more than an eyesore.

And that location is now the Porsche North America HQ. I wonder if they have the same rules?

I would not have an issue with Delta awarding miles based on dollars spent if they also awarded status using dollars spent as well. They have a spend component in their status awards, but you still have to fly the base miles.

Even if it still had the FoMoCo V-6, it would be a unicorn. I was pretty sure Cash for Clunkers swept up every remaining example of these. I had a buddy spend $800 to get his running on enough cylinders and at least two of the gears to get his wife’s Windstar to the dealership to claim his $4,500 trade.

Until self-driving cars can deal with construction zones where traffic patterns can change hourly, at night, in the rain like my drive home from the airport last night, I’ll remain a skeptic they’ll be ready as soon as 2020.

And that’s the saddest thing I’ve heard in a long time. Zero to 60 in 7.1 seconds and to 100 in 22 seconds isn’t anything special today. The Mazda 6 does the 0-60 run in 7 seconds flat and continues on to 100 at 19.4.

My ‘13 Outback isn’t a enthusiast’s car, but it is a damned nice and practical daily driver. It’s also the only car in it’s class that I’ve found that has an actual adult-sized back seat. Once you get kids who grow from tiny babies into sullen teen-age 6’4” food-inhaling monsters over a brief couple of years, back…

Subaru is a hit because of the the CVTs! And you guys all thought CVTs were awful... I can only imagine how stupid you all feel now that Subaru CVTs are taking over the world! Bwahaha! Die, third pedal, die!

The early 80’s could not be our peak. Shoulder pads, mullets, parachute pants and Member’s Only jackets do not represent the best we can be. And the bloated, underpowered 280 ZX was an awful car to drive by current standards. A 2016 Mazda 6 is faster, handles better and more economical than an ‘81 turbo Z.

Getting stuck on a beach where there are significant tides really helps to focus one’s creativity. It’s like someone put a time bomb in your vehicle that instead of exploding, causes the structure to quickly return to the iron ore it came from, the electrical system to drive the owner to madness, and the engine…

I’m starting to think I’m the only auto enthusiast who has no idea what anyone is talking about when they use internal model designations for German cars. E35? W221? 993? WTF are these things? I’m a complete nerd most of the the time, but mastery of these arcane alpha-numerics have to be the ultimate chick repellent.

Your experience is somewhat different from mine. I use National almost exclusively and find most of their cars to be pretty well equipped with bluetooth, etc. Hint if you’re Executive or above, the best equipped cars on the lot are Chrysler Town and Country minivans. Yeah, I know some folks can’t abide minivans, but…

I’ve had occasional issues with big assed rats in my yard and house. In the yard, a .22 caliber pellet gun makes quick work of them. In the house, it’s been more problematic. I’ve placed the biggest, scariest snap traps you can buy, only to later find them snapped, covered in blood an no dead rat anywhere. Having a…

The absolute best city to drive in is no city at all.

Got your medical marijuana card, eh?

Then there was the truly awful Sly Stallone vehicle (sic) DRIVE, where in the climatic final race, the driver finds the speed he needs by pressing harder on the gas pedal!

“Danger to Manifold” would be a great name for a band.

I’m going to nominate the Swedish warship Vasa, built in the years 1626-1628. She capsized and sank within sight of the thousands of well-wishers and dignitaries who came to see her off, less than a mile from the wharf from which she departed in August, 1628.

I don’t think we even need to look up whether or not Great Britain has an extradition treaty with Argentina.

Nope? Color me shocked.... not.