Yeah, she broke both legs multiple times playing travel ball when she was younger and has always pushed herself way harder athletically than she should have. We did a 5k this weekend and she could barely jog the first mile before we walked the rest. Then she got mad when I did the half marathon the next day, but she’s…

It’ll be too expensive for a Toyota as well. If they had decided to slot this in as a baby LFA, it’d sell better with a Lexus badge. People with enough disposable money to afford the Supra are going to want a different dealership experience and probably a different badge to show that they dropped $50k+ on a car many…

Touché! To be fair she wants the new RDX for when we have kids, I’m more realistic about how much we can afford if she wants to even try and maintain our current travel habits.

My wife is 26, both knees shot from playing softball her whole life. I bought my FR-S when we first started dating and she complained about it the whole time I had it. Now we have a Civic hatch and it’s been ok for the past year, but she’s starting to have some difficulty getting out of that too. Once we’ve got enough…

They denied him GAP because the loan terms were too long. Go figure, sure you can pay for the car at $300 a month for 8 years at 10% interest, but you can't get protection from this horrible financial decision.

I have an insurance customer who owes $40k on a 5 year old Maxima he bought new. Between negative equity at trade in and a high interest rate, he's screwed. Car is only worth $17k and has $14k worth of floodwater damage so it's a total. It's becoming more and more common in my industry to see this. 5 years ago at…

From my memory of the one time I drank it, it's burnt rubber/hair, with no positive quality at all. I was new to town so my wife's classmates tricked me into a shot, and some random drunk guy asked for one too. I kept it down like a champ, some classmates spit it out right away, and the drunk guy asked for another...

More impressive to me is the lack of deformation in the windshield pillar. It’s bad if it collapses, its good if it bends a little, but to transfer all the energy to the roof and quarter panels is impressive. Granted I’m watching on a phone, but the windshield pillar appears undamaged, and that doesn't happen on the…

I’m sure they’re relatively inexpensive compared to what the consumer pays. When I was working at a shop my cost on that $5k sensor was about $4100. That same sensor is under $2k on the current models so the technology is coming down in price, but there are more of them now.

Depends on the severity. A “minor accident” in industry speak usually means no airbags deployed and no major structural damage, so anything from parking lot scuffs to collisions on the highway. I wrote an estimate last week on a 2012 535xi; front bumper, headlamp, fender and wheel were damaged from a semi coming into…

Infiniti (Nissan) got in hot water about a decade ago because they were switching the location of a computer on the front end. Computer was on the left side for left hand drive, and on the right side for right hand drive. You’re more likely to have a collision on the driver side, so minor bumper damage was resulting…

You’d be shocked at how expensive some parts are now. Genesis distance sensors for the radar cruise were $5k for just the part when they originally came out. Or steering gear assembly for a newer BMW with “sport suspension”, which BMW requires be replaced if the suspension is damaged; those run around $3-4K for the…

I’m no sure if they’re still doing it on the newer models, but Volvo used to repair their wrecked crash test cars just to crash them again and ensure their repair procedures held up to factory built cars. At some point a car you built will get wrecked and it’s better to be like a Toyota or Subaru who make repair info…

We actually do this on Tuesdays since my wife gets home late. I stop by Sams Club to get the $4.99 bird, we eat half and then shred the remaining meat for our Wednesday night meal. Tomorrow I’m doing ramen, last week it was pulled chicken with Trader Joe's Korean BBQ sauce.

We’ve had ours since Feb 17, and my wife just now figured out how to turn Econ mode off... she’s not a car person, so I showed her how much quicker the acceleration is when Econ is off and you shift into “S”. I rarely drive it, but for a FWD car it handles really well. The only thing that I liked better about my FR-S…

I miss my 89 Si so much, if it had been RWD I'd have never gotten rid of it.

I brine my chicken in buttermilk with dill pickle juice. Usually 48 hours and fry in small batches at 375. I also put breadcrumbs in my flour to add extra crunch, and a lot of paprika to help the breeding darken up. It's very rare someone tells me it's not as good as what their grandma used to make, and usually they…

I worked insurance claims for Harvey last year and was shocked at how I was getting blown out of the water on the freeway. Typically I have to drive rather conservatively since my company name is on the side of my car, but being in a rental allowed me to speed and still I felt like a grandma on the road.

The first Hot Wheels I ever remember getting was a C4 Corvette with Indy 500 livery. Ever since then I've wanted a C4. Regardless of how bad it may be compared to later years, I've got my eyes on a few 1989 models for my 30th birthday next year.

Moving from Chicago to eastern Virginia the week before Christmas 2016 was amazing. Usually that drive is roughly 14 hours after pit stops, but the day we left, I didn’t take off work... We leave Chicago at 7pm on Friday, it start snowing, not too bad though. As soon as we hit Indiana snow turns to ice and I see brake…