I recently had a Camaro SS as a rental car, it was intoxicatingly fast and loud. I loved it.

I would also tend to consider myself a better driver than your average road going individual, having done a decent number of HPDE days and a significant amount of autox/ice racing.

Now I know that this will be blasphemous to…

What kind of American would buy a Chevy Cruze when you can have a Camaro for under $20,000?

This:

Automotive Cognitive Dissonance needs to be added in the DSM VI.

Having owned a cheap, much abused Dodge Viper, I can confirm that this is both an excellent, and supremely poor decision that everyone with $10,000 should both do and then regret.

There was an intervention.

Alternatively, you can add NOS directly to the fuel system. Gas stations sell them in cans, typically in the refrigerated section to keep them fresh.

WE ONLY DRIVE CARS IN SPORT MODE

I didn’t want it. I wanted to keep my ‘83 533i, but the rings were toast on that 200,000 mile engine and it wouldn’t handle the 7 hour drive down to TAMU.

My dad worked out a deal with the company he did work for on a used maroon Firebird. Automatic. V6. Did I mention already that I didn’t want it? At least let me get…

Make an argument - not an ad hominem.

He definitely sounds like he enjoys making life difficult. I don’t like screens in my cars either, but I’ll be damned if I ever have kids in my car without a tablet on hand.

Most people, I’d wager, have never owned an Oldsmobile Toronado. And that’s just sad.

When you’re wrong, you’re wrong.

I have found keeping a ratchet set in my trunk has been incredibly useful on my 200k-mile Tiburon. I once had to change a starter motor in a McDonalds parking lot, and a battery in a Tim Horton’s parking lot. The battery job was blisteringly freezing cold in December here in Canada, but thankfully I had my ratchet set…