This is probably the worst and most extreme example of customization I've seen on such a beloved and respected car as the Prelude. My heart breaks every time I see this. This monster is actually for sale on cars.com (look for Preludes within 200 miles of the Washington DC area) and has been for many, many months —…

You can turn around and look all day long and you still may not see an object directly behind and/or under your bumper. Also, have you seen an actual factory-installed backup camera? Most of them are very discretely integrated into the bumper and are nearly invisible. I'm not saying that all manufacturers will install…

where the "cooking" is pretty much just warming up some frozen food product.

Sorry to get off-topic, but I must agree. Employers have been reducing contributions to healthcare plans for many years now (I've experienced it myself), the only difference now is that they can blame it on "Obamacare", and you likely will not question it, since it seems out of your control and you're just lucky to…

While I don't love the idea of anything else federally mandated, nor am I convinced of the cost/benefit of it, they're getting cheaper and lighter and I'd be lying if I didn't say the one piece of technology I don't hate in every car is probably a backup camera.

95% of people rarely put a load on their trucks because they are rarely used as an actual pickup and more like a family car with a huge open trunk that eventually they buy a cover for because their 50 bags of Wal-Mart groceries fly all over the place. Ford was smart to make this move because they know their target…

$200 oil changes? Try $450 for a Mercedes. The "Service A" is basically a glorified oil change with some fluid top-off and inspections thrown in, at which point they will tell you that your <insert impossibly expensive part> should be replaced.

This looks to be from a Jetta or Golf, I know this Check Engine light really well.

This. Turbo gasoline engines are not known for their longevity (turbo-diesels are a different story), though there is tons of debate on this. All I know is that the longest-lasting engines (able to get to the 250-300k range without a rebuild) are usually of the NA variety by Toyota, Honda, or Nissan, and specifically…

So, it's pronounced "Grahn Turizhmo". Huh.

Except that it does not even use a Corvette engine, and so many of the components are different enough that I would not consider this an ostentatious upgrade of a Corvette.

Jaguar has the same problem with their stupid "everything must start with X" naming convention. XF, XJ, XK, and within those, more specific trims make everything more confusing. You now end up with a ridiculous hodgepodge of alphanumeric nonsense:

Great article. I have nothing against "muscle SUVs", in fact, any vehicle with more power is definitely preferable. In principle, it's no less or no more than a muscle car, just in a larger package. I just don't personally feel like a badass in an SUV of any kind, no matter how fast it is.

Seriously, dude? Where do you get this shit from? Been watching too much The Real Housewives of New Jersey?

It may not be a rare collector's car, but any brand-new 1990 car is rare. This especially is NP because it's an unmolested example.

As a Tercel owner, I have to say this fooled me initially. Nice job, but....crackpipe.

Exactly. There is no law against texting a driver, so nobody other than the driver broke the law. Case closed. End of story. Nothing to see here. Everybody move along.

The proper and polite response would be something along the lines of "I'm sorry to hear to hear that, if we have pretzels aboard, we'll serve them. Just ask the flight attendant.", and leave it that! If they don't have pretzels, well then damnit you won't have a snack for a few hours. Why is it so hard to be polite…

This just makes me outraged at today's US domestic flights. I just took a 1.5 hour Lufthansa flight out of Germany yesterday. It was on time (we even boarded early), and we had full (free!) beverage service with a light (free!) breakfast. I also didn't have to pay for assigned seating (so that I could sit with my…

I wonder which "lively, super-torque Ford" they're talking about. Probably a Galaxie or Thunderbird.