Honestly, my heart just hurts to see a dead DeLorean. Insurance fraud or whatever, I don’t much care, I just feel really sad for the car.

My first car. My mom dragged me to the local Chevy dealer and asked them for a cheap car. They fished up a 2000 Cavalier with a huge dent in the rear quarter they claimed had just been traded in. I didn’t want it. She agreed to pay $7,000 (in 2006) and told me I had to pay half of it back. My mom ditched me and ran…

 I see you and raise you my 500 Abarth. Concentric display with only what you need, tach, speed, gas, and temp. Any other info you need can be found by pushing a button on the wiper stalk. And of course a fucking massive boost gauge with GSI turned off. This is way cleaner and nicer than the Mazda

Just what I remember reading in Nile’s book

Bowie+Bertone=Excuse me while I go have a “crisis”

Unless I’m much mistaken, if I remember correctly from his autobiography, he ferried Nile Rodgers around Switzerland in this car. And also slightly terrified him because for obvious eye-related reasons, strictly speaking, Bowie shouldn’t have been driving.

The when part is pretty simple. For most street driving in most cars, somewhere in the 2500-3000rpm neighborhood is fine. There are occasionally different rules for racing or if you’re driving a rotary (or god help you, racing a rotary, your brain will scream in terror with your first launch) but for the most part…

I enjoy the victorian/formal side, but it takes a lot of time so the full look is mostly a special occasion or when I have time thing. I wear the long skirts more in the summer since the hems get too dirty in the winter. This time of year I usually go with black trousers and nice black shirts. My toddler daughter…

Rest in peace, 500x, your fellow fiat owners won’t forget you. </3

I do drape myself in velvet whether it’s socially acceptable or not. Because goth girl.

I once literally had to do this on the way home from an eye appointment. Could see the road, but my gauges were completely blurry. So I just listened for 3000 and hoped for the best!

This is why I love the concentric gauges on my Abarth. Center ring contains fuel and temp with whatever info you want accessed via poking a button on a stalk, ex fuel economy, trip, etc. Middle ring is speedo and outer ring is tach. It takes a couple days to get used to reading when you come from a normal cluttered…

I’m just over the border in Boise. The best part of Oregon changing their law is now I don’t have to remember to brim my tank before going on cross-border *ahem* trips since there’s no danger of some numpty putting the wrong gas in my car. Incidentally, Huntington has a very nice little pioneer cemetery...

My resolution is pretty much the same. I’ve had 2 cars for a couple years, but I upgraded to 3 last spring and discovered that running a herd is actually quite exhausting! My Corvette needs 3 new tires and hasn’t seen an oil change literally since my daughter was born a year and a half ago. Mind you, as mom to a…

Set your sights low enough and you too can enjoy herd ownership! All of mine combined clock in at about 40k, which is less than plenty of new cars. Incidentally, wanna go halvsies on that Yugo?

That sounds about right. With 3, I have the daily, and the dedicated racecar but because I’m mom to a toddler, opportunities to drive the Corvette can be hard to come by. I need to add a tow rig, then I’m DONE!*

The herd

I’m of two minds on grid girls. One, it’s stupid, outdated, and sexist. Two, grid girls aren’t slaves. They can choose whether or not to accept the modeling gig, which is what it is. If a girl wants to use her looks to make money, that’s her choice and more power to her for it.

My goal is to get better at running a herd. Having moved from 2 cars to 3 this year, I discovered that it’s actually pretty exhausting to have so may cars. I know it’s kinda “living the dream” to have the daily, the vintage gem, and the racecar, but dang, but it never friggen ends! Somebody always needs something and…

As the owner of a Very Small Car, I must respectfully disagree. I have 197whp in that very small car which can be ballparked around the 230bhp neighborhood. Actually getting that power down in a wee pocket rocket can be challenging. While 300 I’m sure would be delightful, in my case it would be overkill and generally…