I personally know of a very large corporation based in Texas (you may very well have one of their products in your car) that has a mandatory "faith meeting" upon hire with the company's founder and CEO emeritus, now their Corporate Pastor. The employee cafeteria has rounders with those religious pamphlets you usually…

I loved Scooby Doo, but I grew to hate the Mystery Machine because it didn't make any sense. The mechanical parts just appear where that episode happens to place them. Overheating? It did many times, sometimes in front and sometimes in back. Was it a Volkswagen? Dodge? Air-cooled?

This also solved one of the problems with Le Cars: the rear side windows are only glued to their pop-out hinges. Unfortunately, this was before such glue was really effective. My Le Car's pop-outs regularly did so, even when not popped out. They never actually fell off, but did I always expected them to just slide the…

In other news, sky blue, tree pretty.

Actually, this:

The 1980 Dodge Aspen was one of my driver's ed cars. It was the one you wanted, actually, as the other was a similar vintage Plymouth Horizon. It wasn't the cars themselves, you see, it was the driver's ed 'teacher', also known as the drunk who taught photo journalism and purportedly had been a coach years before.

Which was perfectly normal for the era. Cadillac Eldorado: 6.0 V8@140, 3 speed auto. Lincoln Mark VI: 5.0 V8@130, 4 speed auto. Torque was the saving grace of the 80s (not that there were tons of it, but enough to move these barges).

This campaign stuck in my head literally for decades. Best car ad? If name recognition is the goal, then yes.

I'm curious as to whether seismic activity was a concern for Mr. Felts.

Note that the parts built by Jeep seem fine. It's the parts added by owners that break.

I've been obsessed with cornering lights since I was a kid. Virtually every car I drew in junior high had them; some stretched to the front wheel well.

The Balaton makes me think of Maggie's monobrow nemesis from the Simpsons more than Cars.

Need to clarify that auto dimming rear view mirrors need to be paired with auto dimming side view mirrors or else you are alternately blinded or ducking head so side views can't dazzle you from super xenon death ray headlights from jacked up truck on your bumper.

I fly a lot for work. I also have had both hips replaced, so I set off most metal detectors. Since I'm TSA PreCheck (and have been since it started) I know the drill: announce early and often that I will set off the detector. Somehow, this fails to be heard at some airports.

I question the contrast to jetBlue, as American just introduced three class service on SFO or LAX to JFK. Brand new planes with significant upgrades over the 757s and old 767s they replace.

My dad worked on the family cars when I was young because he didn't have money to have someone else do it. Yes, I was expected to be there and assist (since my older brothers were ab-so-fucking-lutely clueless about mechanical devices) but it wasn't out of love, so much as it was out of fear of what would happen if I…

What? No piscine love today?

Actually, they are all FCA cars. Just as Fiats are.

I'd add hatchbacks to the station wagon entry. For even less trade off than a wagon, a hatchback turns the average sedan into a UHaul. Too bad Americans seem to think they're poison.

My advice? Clean out the sex doll's various apertures often, not rarely. They'll smell if you leave it too long.