Come to Chicago, where double-length accordion buses will attempt to make 90-degree right turns.

My worst car-selling experience happened because I was a ginormous idiot.

In my perfect (and probably delusional) world, all bus drivers would be off-season, FIA-licensed race car drivers, rather than people pulled off the street who may or may not have driven some sort of vehicle in the past few years and can pull off a CDL test.

In your Toyota Matrix?

Yes, but FCA does all its own transmission programming. Every iteration of the 9AT that I’ve used in FCA vehicles (200, ProMaster City, Cherokee, and the list goes on...) has been put together by a 12 year old that has no idea how to spell ‘transmission.’ Lurches, jolts, shudders ... they’re all there.

Neutral: How Can Alfa Romeo Make It In America?

There’s a Mitsubishi version on my street. I think “Colt Vista” is a better name.

Well done.

I can’t wait to see this over the weekend?

Because the ultra-rich live in this weird world where the word “enough” is either a dirty term, or completely absent from their collective lexicon. There must be more. There needs to be more.

They’re not thinking about it. They’re making it as we speak. It’s already past the clay modeling stage, and I was promised that it would be nothing like the Tribeca (which kinda sat alone in the Subaru lineup, lacking the fun quirkiness of its other models); they’re going to stick with what they know and what works…

Bro needs to adjust that steering knuckle for a few extra degrees of motion.

I know what I’d do — spend most of my time ignoring media requests to investigate specific (incredibly rare) U.S.-based Porsche models, even if that car is a very important model whose story deserves to be told to legions of adoring fans.

I vote against Seinfeld, because what good is the greatest collection of Porsches on the face of the planet if they’re going to sit in some magical underground garage 95% of the time?

Hair Nation?

Nah, making it Not Evil is all about adjusting that cash flow.

I agree. Very weird. Worked in a Euro garage for three years and never saw a problem like it, although 355s never came in.

I must have taken several blows to the head as a child, because I think the current Sonata is the best-looking one yet.

Mark Baruth. I think the name change is to prevent him from being known as “the racecar-driving auto writer who’s got that brother that’s also an auto writer and a racecar driver.”

Headers crack pre-oxygen sensor. Pure air enters header through crack, throws off O2 sensor by showing a very lean condition. ECU compensates for lean condition by liqui-shitting fuel into the cylinders, which can lead to scoring on the cylinder walls, necessitating the rebuild.