My previous car, a Mazdaspeed3, had rain sensing wipers but no heated windshield or wiper heater thingies...if I left the wipers on and it snowed or rained and froze into ice overnight the wipers would try as hard as possible to rip themselves free of the ice/snow when I used the remote start. A German co-worker…

If it’s necessary to tell people “Don’t drink racing fuel”, it’s not *if* but rather *when* they’ll do something stupid and end their days.

This is simply evolution doing its thing.

The first Winter I owned my Mazdaspeed3, I got stuck behind a woman in a Honda Odyssey at a controlled left turn on a slight incline in fresh snow (2-3"). Every time the light turned green, she’d stomp on the gas - the front tires would spin and she would go either A) nowhere or B) sideways/backward. I was three cars…

How so?

What ‘educated guesses’ could one make to wreak havoc?

People still ‘hide’ their license plates?

No one cares while they’re driving around...but take a photo and it’s got to be concealed.

WTF?

I would guess that the Maserati WOULD be the more reliable of the group.

I can’t believe I just wrote that...

I recall reading the Jalopnik article about the VW tail lamps.

BMW, for example, made the entire lens red. While there is a cost savings there, it seems strange to chase pennies to that level while they put a dual exhaust on a 4 cylinder car that clearly doesn’t need dual exhausts.

And I get the “aesthetics vs. safety…

It looks great until you get to the rear end and find an updated 1989 Ford Taurus.

What happened to amber turn indicators on cars? Seems like a really weird place to pinch pennies in production.

I can only speak for my geographic region. I steer clear of the JB Hunt trucks for sure.

The scary part is that she is but one of several hundred semi drivers like this...

Comment on YouTube: “His whole rear axle came off according to a news report. You can see a tire rolling away on the road around 00:32 “

Within a week of moving to Chicago, I pulled up behind two cars at a stop light. The cars were next to one another at the limit line/cross walk. Four guys jumped out of the car on the right with baseball bats and proceeded to get into a full blown street fight with the three guys in the car on the left - who had their…

I put a Cobb SRI on my Mazdaspeed3...no real difference when it was warm/hot out but when the weather was mild/cold, I could definitely notice a difference. Just what I needed on a FWD car notorious for torque steer.

Wouldn’t do it again...

Not placing blame but I wouldn’t ship anything over a value greater than what’s in my pocket without full value insurance via UPS or FedEx. Tantamount on gambling against the house.

UPS has fucked up so badly on this that they now can’t seem to get out of their own way on it. Someone up high should take control and fix…

As someone who upgraded the day Win 10 was available and has spent hours learning the layout of Win 10, navigating around the negatives and honestly trying to like it: Wait about six months before you upgrade.

There are a lot of weird ‘eccentricities’ (marketed by Microsoft as ‘features’) that Microsoft has to work…

It’s just sooooo fucking ugly...I can think of about five other vehicles for this cash that aren’t so cringeworthy. It’s akin to the super stoned version of Jocelyn Wildenstein as a beluga whale.

I’ve driven two Kia Forte rentals and they were, hands down, the worst car I’ve had to drive in quite a long time.

A distant second is the Jeep Cherokee with the 9 speed transmission that needs to downshift three gears to accelerate 4mph on the highway at highway speed.

I DD a 2015 Volvo V60 R Design with the headlight washers and the rear booster seats.

The headlight washer is a nice concept but there are a few drawbacks: 1. I can’t turn them off so the headlights get thoroughly washed every time I start the windshield washers. 2. They use a LOT of the washer fluid - under most…

I’ve spent a decent amount of time looking for parts...finding them is almost as fun as driving the finished vehicle.