Continuous beard since 1981 here. Never removed, never longer than a neatly trimmed 1A clipper

Ford Taurus SHO driver here. I also get less than spectacular MPG out of my Ecoboost. Pushing a 4,000 pound rhinoceros through an AWD system no surprises there.

I have personally been involved in a ticket being thrown out because of a scrivener's error. I was a passenger in a car drive by a friend who was pulled over and cited for 45 mph over in a 65 mph zone. Yes, that's 110 mph. The fact that the state trooper did not cite for reckless driving and impound the vehicle was…

Yes, but the big commercial jets which carry us plebs are ALSO made here, so if Bombardier loses a few sales but Boeing gains a few because more peons are flying steerage, it's probably a net gain for the workers building planes.

having the gas cap cause a check engine light incident gave me the incentive I needed to put a crowbar to my wallet and spend $40 on a Bluetooth OBD-2 scanner and an app for my phone. Now I can read the codes and check the fix on the inter webs any time.

Megola, hands-down. Here it is:

I counted 26 rusting hulks in the woods by my in-law's farm. One abandoned car: not so bad. 26? That's a mess. I'm sure the first person who abandoned their car thought it was amusing. And the second. And the third....

get a base Elise and add an aftermarket supercharger. Presto! 245 HP for less money. Sector111 makes a great bolt-on kit with a good street tune. Add Larini headers and decay (or sport cat) and get 265 HP with an impressive boost on torque.

just a test drive. My buddy Autocrosses it, and takes it to the drag strip (10.8 seconds), but no track days... yet! I keep trying to drag him along, but so far no go. To put things in perspective, the worked Viper was much more predictable than my other friend's GT500 (which is scary, IMO)

one of my buddies has a Viper that he supercharged, 750 HP. Not nearly as impossible to drive as you might think... :-)

don't they sell most of their vehicles in Dubai and China? I can't imagine that the US market is THAT critical to Aton-Martin.

oh yeah - ignition key! In cold weather (I drove a Spyder as a daily driver & ski instructor transport vehicle), the ignition tumblers would seize. Not freeze; seize due to metal shrinkage. I had to lever and twist it just right to turn the ignition. Never happened above 15 degrees F.

I was the third owner of a 1984 Pininfarina Spyder. Not a Fiat; a Pininfarina since the car was imported for one more year after Fiat abandoned the US market. I acquired it from a college friend in 1989, after destroying my recently paid-off Mustang GT. I drove it as a daily driver for about 2.5 years. In that time:

other than the Tesla, are there any otherEVs with more than a 60 Mike range? I spend about 50% of my days in my home office! but the rest of the time is 40 miles each way and parking in many different places (some of which are under massive solar panels, but no charging station to be seen)

free like speech, not free like beer.

regarding the rebate: it is not enough to make me buy an EV. That's not quite the same as not caring. The problem is that a Tesla is more expensive than I would pay for a daily driver, and the other EVs don't have enough range to cover my commute so the incentive does not work for me.

well... Part of the trick is that compared to my colleagues I have pretty low needs, my vice is my car (hey, this *is* Jalopnik), but not much else and my wife was raised on a farm so she is the same way. Also, I get the advantage of all the typical tax-reducing incentives so my rate is more like 27% rather than 35%.…

when I was young and "poor" (roughly 50th percentile income) and I paid a much lower tax rate, the tax I paid was a big impact on my ability to purchase. Now I am old and "wealthy" (96th percentile income), and my income taxes are barely felt when I consider my purchasing power. This is something that I was told in…

they just guaranteed that no man will ever buy that vehicle

You don't have these problems in NJ, because you can't pump your own gas. This keeps each driver ensconced in his own car, unable to chat up other drivers.