Poor grackles. I worked in Houston for the last 16 months and those were my favorite birds down there.

Rear drums and a torsion beam rear axle. Sigh.

Couldn't Tesla pay someone significantly less than $126k to have that little problem "taken care of"?

Uh, guys, that's not the emergency slide, that's just me trying to exit the back lav. #fatboy #sorryfortheconfusion

Nice username ;)

Glad I could help. Here's a picture of my hearse the day it was dropped off at my house. It's not as creepy, but still kinda creepy.

It reminds me of this 1930's children's hearse from South America.

Are the Virginias in the South? I'm from Mississippi and never really counted North Carolina or the Virginias to be "The South"

I wish I could recommend your post a million times. Texting behind the wheel is not a safe thing to do, but it shouldn't be the scapegoat it is today.

Damn don't say that. I shared that same opinion regarding a certain "comedian" last week and I've been beaten to death by self-righteous Protectors of the Internet. At Gawker nonetheless.

Has Lincoln been able to quell the four cylinder vibrations in the cabin compared to the escape?

Same here. I am 33 and have maintained a subscription since I was 16. When print magazines no longer meshed with my apparently semi nomadic lifestyle I let them all go except for Automobile.

Oh damn, I remember those!

Those are definitely hard words to read.

I wish I could give you more stars!

I always wondered the same thing myself. Sadly these cars have torsion beam rear axles so they would not have been on my list anyway.

My heart still does a little jump when I see a well maintained Probe GT.

I'm a beekeeper but I totally understand. Bees and cars don't mix!

The unofficial truck of my Mississippi town is a muddy 1996 Chevy Silverado Z71 regular cab in white with a confederate flag or six plastered on in various spots, optionally with tea party bumper stickers, "Don't Tread On Me" bumper sticker, or a NOBAMA window decal with tobacco spit running down one or both sides of…