Ridiculous and absolutely awesome. :)

Or free with specific tires. The Michelins I got recently include free rotation, and you actually get a tread-life and road hazard guarantee as long as you have it done every 7500 miles.

New shocks, exhausts, rims, tires, and struts aren't that cheap...

"Staggered, directional tread..." such cars are usually hi-po - the tires only last 10k so it's a moot point?

I feel your pain. Though at the dealer (ok I get coupons for oil changes for $22 bucks on my "HEMI") and they always start rotating the tires even after I tell them they can't. Its the reason they only get my oil change business. Can't enough oil for my engine for $22 myself.

I like the diagram, can't believe I haven't seen it before. Save me the googling, how often should you do this?

Staggered, directional tread, I feel so left out!

Unless you're a cool kid and have directional tires, and then your "rotation" is a simple front to back thing. No criss crossing arrows advised :)

Tires rotation... Free at home or $5 at a shop.

I love the blue and yellow California plates, especially because Mazda stole the color for the Mariner Blue of the original NA Miata (true story, they sent a square cut out of the front plate of Bob Hall's Isuzu to Japan as a color sample).

It's a program that started in January, covered by Jalopnik. You pay your $50 now (see the website I linked to), and if they get 7,500 people to sign up in the next two years, they will make them and send them out. It also looks like they will be permanent options as a regular plate. Right now, the furthest along is…

I think the CA plates are some of the best, actually.

I know it has no internal combustion engine and approximately 1/2 hp but if we're talking custom wagons... :P

Why the hell would he put Bridgestone YJP rain tires on that thing? They're only going to last about 10-20 min in the dry before they're bald.

Oh my god. This is wildly appealing to me. I wan't to build one soooo bad now.

Clutch and gear shift are slowly disappearing as faster and more advanced automatic transmissions start to take over... Yeah, it's totally inevitable and we have to accept that. Please don't start another automatic VS manual bloodbath...

Here's another decent one.

Damn... I should've posted this...