I met a Marcos 1800 owner at a British car show back in the 90's. He described his cars structure as being made of “carbon-based fiber”

I’ve seen a few studies that suggest there’s strong evidence that picking excecutives and powerful public officials would be better done by random chance selection from the general population than by the current systems. I say America should give it a shot. You might lead the world into a beautiful new era of…

25 MPG? That’s not great. I recently had a Mustang GT Convertible as courtesy rental when my Honda was in for air conditioning work and it averaged 25 MPG over the two days I had it. That Mustang’s fuel economy was actually better than what I usually get with the Honda (an Element - what can I say, it had all the…

Same thing happened to me in the old days when we waited breathlessly for the newest Buy&Sell to hit the streets. What did I miss out on thanks to the seller calling me back once, then never answering the phone again? A Skoda 130 Rapid Coupe for $900. Kind of mixed feelings about that one...

“around 30 supercars which we use on supercar driving experience days and we see around 45,000 customers a year” Sweet zombie jesus! They must work the hell out of their cars with numbers like that. I thought the major airlines did an amazing job of racking up the revenue hours and keeping down the maintenance…

Hawaii. 1985. My family had a new Mazda 626 rental car for the first week on Oahu. Originally we planned to be without a car for the last four days - my parents figured we would do the exploring in the first week and then just hang stay within walking distance of the hotel for the last four days to save money. They…

Intersting if true. In practice it isn’t, so it’s not. In general automatics tend to cause less trouble in service that manuals (there are some noted exceptions such as several big three autoboxes that had trouble making it to the first oil change and a number of DSG variants - including the one that did the “all…

I would be willing to do awful, terrible things in order to own that car...

I remember the car, but I completely forgot that the doors worked that way... good memory Razgriz!

Not going to get into a lot of that... but movement of the wearer causes the mechanism in an automatic watch to wind. No movement, no self-winding. Put it in the influence of a massive gravitational field and as long as it’s sitting still, nothing happens. Shake the hell out of it in free fall and it will wind.

Yep. And there’s the fact that they managed to make an electric car the object of envy and desire for a lot of people. That still boggles my mind. My personal favorite road vehicle powerplants are old style turbos (lots of lag and an exhilharating rush as the boost builds up) and, for motorcycles, two-strokes. The way…

Geez, I’ve still got a deflecting beam torque wrench...

Thanks for the heads up! I’ll be standing by to start ignoring it immediately. (Not for any substantive reason though. It’s just that from the very first time I saw Clarkson I had an immediate, visceral dislike for him that put me in danger of pulling an Elvis on my TV)

Only ever had a ride in a Tesla S - pretty impressive. The new front end however just makes me think “I have no mouth, yet I must scream”

Getting the tire pressure wrong by 1.5psi is really dangerous - it was that incorrect pressure that forced him to drive the wrong way down the street when he was slinking away, humiliated after jumping the median too.

911/GTR... Mine is in a state of quantum indeterminacy. I never know which it will be until I look in the garage and collapse the waveform. Sometimes I’ve had to close and reopen the door a few times before the waveform collapses as the car I want that particular day. That backfired on me one day when I reopened the…

The cop shot a hole in the pickle, put the pickle in the ticket... and shoved it down my throat. It was at that minute that I realized: I don’t want a pickle. Just want to ride on my motorsickle...

Well, if you’re the sort of person who thinks that making the front of a car look like a scary electric shaver is a good idea in the first place then I can’t imagine the Sriracha part being a problem for you.

I’m glad that the trend of putting that wretched diamond pattern stitching on upholstery seems to be confined to cars I will never be able to buy even if I was able to finance them over a 92 year term. Eases the pain a bit.

Given the bit about crossing streams calling it the “Rubicon” would seem to be more suitable than naming it after a mountain pass famous for having one of the twistiest roads in the world. I guess Jeep would have a problem with that though. As for brand dilution, well they’ve also made things like the Mille truck in…