About five years ago my in-laws set up a family vacation to St. John, USVI. On the return flight, our son, then roughly 12, apparently had the runs. He dominated one of the limited number of restrooms on that aircraft, taking multiple trips, and spending an inordinate time on each successive visit. The lines built…

My wife likes to lease. There are deals to be had... and dealers to take advantage of you.

I’ll get right on that...

It IS a Land Rover, though... so does that mean the water that gets removed from the intake air will just pool indefinitely until the entire front of the vehicle spontaneously rusts?

Reiterating what I suggested to Dustin’s reply, asking what to call this new superhero:

Oh, I’m sure that pissed off dude had some ideas.

Does Toyota have any idea what kind of driver is buying the Toyobaru?

What I have found is that running a lower gear is just more “bouncy”, for lack of a better term. If I’m in 3rd in the neighborhood, doing around 25, the slightest movement of my right foot changes it from acceleration to engine braking. Upshift to 4th or 5th, and that jerkiness is gone.

My coworkers still joke that I have one of those fast-and-furious transmissions.

All true. Your beetle indeed does sound like a boiler factory at anything above moderate RPMs.

My boss bought a new ‘05 Jeep Grand Cherokee in... probably late ‘04. It was one of the very first in the new body style.

In other news, the sky is blue.

How appropriate. Tomorrow, for the first time ever, my son will get behind the wheel (of something more substantial than a go-kart).

My cousin had a ‘95 Ford Probe GT, circa 1998 I guess.

I “discovered” this effect in 1988.

HIDs in stock halogen reflector housings?

Some of those could be “real”, BTW.

Sounds about right.

Nice!

No worries. They do come back to life periodically.