Given the depth of the butt print in the driver’s seat, and knowing you’re not a beefy man, I would wonder about the quality and longevity of the seat foam.

I guess my friends and I are outliers, then. Or maybe we’re not actually white.

Yes, I’m taller when I sit down.

And there are those of us not blessed with conventional proportions. I’m six feet tall with the legs of someone who’s 5'9" and the torso of someone who’s 6'3". If I buy tall sizes, the sleeves are too long. Maybe I should start a brand for men and women named FuckYouFashionIndustryStandards.

So there I was, one winter many years ago, at the gym after work, riding my simulated bicycle that went nowhere, watching all the others riding their simulated bicycles that went nowhere, running on simulated paths that went nowhere, rowing simulated boats that went nowhere, climbing simulated stairs that went…

That was never ever true for me.

I’m 67 and, as my end draws closer, I care less about longevity than ever. I’m not a fan of living longer if it means replacing the things I enjoy with things I hate. I’d rather die tonight eating an entire pizza than live some extra years of deprivation and self-flagellation. Is it that we actually live longer, or…

Gotta keep out dangerous things, like ideas.

My mother commuted to her teaching job in a Simca. Dad bought it for her so he could continue to commute in his Dodge Polara, as befitting the Man of the Family. I don’t remember having any Lee slacks (with or without side straps) foisted upon me, but I remember Mom complaining the Simca’s heater didn’t warm up until…

I’m pretty certain the happy face is from the surplus parts bin of former partner Mazda.

Nah, I think most graphics on street cars are juvenile.

They could’ve done it without making it uglier. “Let’s take the fairly clean and tasteful lines of the Challenger and add cheap looking versions of the ‘Cuda’s worst design elements. And huge, juvenile graphics.”

It needs the extra power in order to haul around a five-word name.

But people who buy 2WD Wranglers aren’t REAL Jeep owners. (I’m mocking stereotypes)

They care because Wranglers are supposed to have folding windshields, dammit, whether you ever use it or not—just like they need to have 4WD, whether you ever use it or not.

Of course they’re doing a“’family’ of rugged off-road vehicles.” Because it’s not like they’re going to be doing a family of sedans.

Last week Holly Andres of the New York Times wrote of her NYC to LA train trip.

My 1st-generation New Beetle had the window and lock wiring swapped on the passenger door because both switches used identical connectors.

I was this close to getting an SRT/4. I even had the dealer talked into swapping trunks with a lesser model so I wouldn’t have the ridiculous basket handle spoiler. But then they got nasty about the financing.

Three words: holes in firewall.  ;)