#COTD

Those. Wheels.

The Aveo does fufill it's role as a cheap form of paid-off transportation, and I got 32.4 mpg on my latest fill up this afternoon. On the craptastic 4spd aisin auto slush box that terribly needs a 5th gear. With 87k miles and way overdue for a transmission flush and tires that are definitely in need of replacement.…

Unfortunately for Aveo owners such as myself ('08 LS hatch with six airbags but no ABS—WTF?!), swapping to LED DRLs is not an easy option. This is due to the high beam filament running @ 50% is the DRL, and short of hacking the wiring and rewiring the DRL module under the dash with the proper resistance to account for…

Ferrari actually has P180s. So it literally is a Ferrari with wings!

I just saw one over the Houston burbs last week—most likely on its way to land at KHOU (Hobby). Cool aircraft, but I have to admit, I'm a sucker for the P.180 over the Starship.

Are they going to fix the godawful headlight design? "Winged" headlights work ok I suppose on a Nissan 370z; on a Suburban/Tahoe? KILL IT WITH FIRE!

I can't get over those damn squared/angled headlights with curves everywhere else on the car. Especially the mismatch with the tail lights. The headlights look like they were an off the shelf item tacked on to save a few bucks. If they went through the trouble of redoing the grill, they could have at least redone the…

This. The car I learned to drive on was a 96 Regal with the 3800 Series II, and God, could that thing haul ass! It truly was remarkable on its fuel economy for road trips, as several times my dad & I were able to get 31-32 mpg on a tank. Around town it was around 23 or so, but that's respectable for a V6 of that size…

At least they still kept the manual e-brake! #NewPorscheCaymanFail

I have a Prius v, and let me tell you, that back seat is plenty big enough to put in a divider and still have ease of entry for the perp. The back doors are quite large and open wide, so the back seat isn't the issue. If the mayor absolutely is dead set on his prii cop cars, use the v's for picking up perps and…

The Pontiac front ends on these cars are MUCH better looking. The SS front end just says "meh," instead of screaming "Performance!" like the G8 did.

The Audi A7. Not particularly amazing from the rear, but after seeing one parked in my neighbors driveway right after they just came out, and then seeing them scattered among the ritzier parts of Houston (River Oaks, Galleria, Memorial, etc.), they look amazing in person. It remains my realistic aspirational DD…

WANT! If they ever did bring it to the states, it would be in another 2-3 years, so that would be perfect timing for me to get a new ride. This with a TDI would be perfect as my next car. A BIG step up from my Aveo, but not a hulking monstrous SUV.

The concave grill slats conjure Maserati, the headlights are growing on me, and the dash is nice and clean, a la Jag XJ. Me likey!

The solution is a mileage/weight tax. No GPS needed, just an official check of the odometer at registration time. Different rates for different weight classes, with higher weight vehicles being charged more. Peg the tax at roughly the same rate today that people pay annually in gas taxes per 10,000 miles driven, then…

I see Model S's all over Houston, the oil and gas capital of the world. If oil execs drive 'em, you can too. :-)

Yes, I'm an aviation meteorologist; I do weather forecasts and flight planning for corporate aviation clients around the world. And I'm a big weather and aviation buff. :-P

Land Rover Range Rover: Built to tackle the toughest roads in the world, it is most frequently seen driven by trophy wives in uppity areas of any major city in the U.S., doing duty as a soccer mom-mobile shuttling precious little snowflakes to and from school, sitting in the Starbucks drive-thru line, and darting…

A friend of mine did that a couple months ago, he's a dispatcher for United in Chicago. He flew up to Anchorage and back same day, spent more time in the air than he did in Alaska. lol