I bought an ‘05 Mazdaspeed in Titanium Grey five years ago. Still have it. I usually get bored of my cars and want something else after a couple of years - especially a car I have to park all winter - but anytime I even contemplate selling mine, I take it for a drive, and the thought leaves my head. I never tire of…

If your reason for CP is you can pick up an NC for this money....this car was never for you

Sales aside, Harris does speak as a painfully serious Porsche nerd as much as he speaks to or for them, and it’s a bit of a bummer to see Porsche cave to their demands.

My five-pound dog takes up just enough room to make me uncomfortable, but she’s still a good girl and deserves to sleep wherever the hell she wants.

No one:
No one at all:
BMW: Another model! And a long name!

The ugly Camaro was introduced and sales actually fell. Now the less ugly (but still ugly) Silverado is introduced and Chevy loses second place to Ram.

Not a Monster Truck, it’s a mud truck. Hydraulic steering 1-tons, 44" DOT tires, build NA V8, standard mud truck equipment.

Then again, any action scene can be vastly improved by frequently cutting to dragons... somewhere...

My main problems with dealers are: 1) they can never diagnose the issue, if it’s not blatantly obvious (CEL on, or engine not running; otherwise, pretty much every other issue is “cannot identify/did not hear issue”, and 2) they always take fucking forever. Alignments are covered for 1 year for new FCA vehicles; when…

I don’t think there’s any dealer I really trust to work on my car. Maybe that’s because I do as much as I can and I probably don’t trust anyone, but every dealer service experience I’ve had has been mediocre to terrible. Anything I can’t do I’ll take to one of a few independent shops that I do trust, and most of those…

Star for both hilarity and deadpan delivery.

Hate to say it, but D&D made the right decision and maintained a holistic vision for the show’s ending. Excellent direction would have been jarring alongside piddle-poor writing.

I have written about this at length. In fact, I have two or three essays ready to go (hi Patrick) about this subject: For some (well... a majority of) Americans, a Tesla simply won’t work as a primary vehicle. Many automotive journalists live in places like New York, Southern California, or other moderately-populated…

I’ll eat asparagus, but come on, favorite vegetable?

Ok, that’s less than 10 hospitalizations a year and 1.5 deaths per decade.

The only thing worse is what they will replace it with. 

Pat Shanahan is the acting Secretary of Defense? As a former Boeing employee, that scares me very deeply.

Fuck those barbershop guys. They wouldn't have tipped anyway and were happy to find an excuse to be cheapasses. 

I was about to get the R with a DSG because I had a heavy traffic commute. But then I got a new job and my commute changed to public transit, so immediately switched to manual. It’s not nearly as fast, but I enjoy rowing through the gears. Traffic was definitely my biggest motivator in transmission type.

In 2014 I bought a MK7 GTI with the DSG.