I remember going to visit my family in British Columbia back in 2004, X-Trails were all over. My great aunt and uncle didn’t have the internet yet so I had to wait until I got back to the states to look up such a weird looking X-Terra. I also thought it was odd, we visited Mexico that same summer and saw many of them…

How big does the city need to be? Fairfax Va and Richmond Va both have some great drives within their limits, especially twistys near the rivers. On weekends when fewer cops are out and you’re not dealing with commuters, it's not bad.

I’d love to buy back my 89 Prelude with the 4 wheel steering, but I know that it was crushed already since they guy who bought it from me blew it up and couldn’t sell it on Craigslist for more than the scrap value.

Mine is from Richmond quite a few years ago. It was my first Cup race and I’d just bought a DuPont flame hat. I was walking around merch trucks and a guy walked up to my dad and I, saw I was wearing a Gordon hat, and gave us his Pepsi hospitality tickets since he wanted to go to see Dale Jr instead. We went to the…

I used to work at Busch Gardens in Virginia, and there wasn’t a day that went by I didn’t imagine tearing it up on my mountain bike. The paths were a little tight and made of aggregate so motorized vehicles had a hard time getting around, but the Seaworld locations were mostly paved, smooth, and wide, perfect for…

Actually, putting logos and design marks into parts like headlamps and taillights is a way for the OEMs to make sure aftermarket companies can't reproduce parts until a certain period expires. Try finding CAPA certified lamps with logos in them, you can't. Forces repairers and insurers to purchase factory parts until…

And if ICar really knows what they're talking about, supposedly all hardtop convertible frames are made by the same supplier. The OEMs simply adhere outer panels to it. The number of suppliers out there are shrinking as they consolidate and the OEMs keep giving them more to produce.

Ill agree, I made no modifications to it whatsoever, but my FR-S could hang with the best of them on some nice country roads in central VA. I sold it to move to Chicago, but as soon as I'm ready to buy a car again, everything I drive will be compared to how balanced my FR-S was.

As much as I love Saabs and live down the street from a reliable Saab specialist, you won't catch me trying to own one simply due to the parts. Sure it's mostly an SRX, but they only made a few and GM gave up on the brand. As soon as a Saab specific part goes, you're out of $19k. I'd rather spend some more time…

As a kid, growing up an hour from Grave Digger and 10 minutes from Larry “Spider-Man” Mcbrides shops meant lots of nagging at my parents to see these awesome machines I'd see on Speed.

Gotta Have It Green on the last gen Mustang. I'd kill for a more green colored cars, but going the route of taking your color palate from Victoria's Secret or PINK undies is not the way to go.

Station 2 and City Dogs all day. I would much rather have some quality food than microwaved bar snacks at some dirty place in the northeast just so I can drink a $1 light beer.

Logano punched his ticket to the next round last weekend, today he guaranteed he won't make it any further. Gibbs cars that are out of it will make sure he doesn't win a championship.

It’s bad. I bought my FR-S two weeks before being moved for work. My commute became 45 minutes each way of working the clutch while sitting in traffic on a bridge tunnel that meant my feet could never leave the pedals. Any car with a clutch sucks in traffic.

I'm in the same boat, if the VIN doesn't start with a J there's no way I'm making payments on it. Unless it's a GM body on frame truck/SUV. The only vehicle I've driven since I bought my FR-S that makes me want to trade it in is the new Suburban/Yukon duo.

My first car was a 1989 Prelude Si with 4wS, my current car is a 2013 FR-S. So these two have ruined my perception of how a car in my budget should handle. It's hard coming to terms knowing my next few cars are going to have to be focused on creature comforts and practicality for the wife and kids.

I find it hilarious that every time I visit an Enterprise there's a sales rep telling the customer their Malibu has EcoBoost so don't freak out when the car cuts off at stop lights. Never mind the EcoDrive badge on the trunk... I'm happy to stick to my NA engines with .5 liter displacement per cylinder and no fancy…

1) Better civil engineering to encourage a switch to more modest sized vehicles and two wheelers.

I went to George Mason for undergrad and must remember it with rose colored glasses because I was in Tysons a few weeks ago for work and it took me 45 minutes to get to Fair Lakes to meet some college friends for dinner. I can't believe I used to WANT to live there...

Headrests are only tested in rear end collision testing. I’ve been in I-Car all week going over Volvo and some of the other manufactures new cars for 2016 in terms of crash worthiness and how to be repaired.