Fun fact about the Tappan Zee. It was built 800 feet north of the 25-mile zone centered on the Statue of Liberty where the Port Authority has the exclusive right to run all bridges & tunnels, and therefore collect all that sweet, sweet toll revenue. Governor Dewey specifically did this in the 50's as a way to fund the…

20 years of ownership and 382,000 trouble free miles says you’re probably correct. Plus a hatch you could fit a small sofa into. I test drove an Integra GSR at the time too and it felt super dated compared to the Celica.

Sums it up nicely.  I tried to buy one of these in 2000, fresh out of grad school.  Nobody in the Honda dealer would talk to me.  Bought a Celica GT-S instead, was very happy.  So while I never got to drive one of these, they still look fantastic all these years later.

And this isn’t even counting the damage from these guys!

You forgot the F50.

I work in transportation infrastructure development, and while building new stuff is cool, what it really means is that on day 1 you have created an O&M cost liability for...someone. I think the counter to that is if tax policy reflected what it REALLY costs to run public services, and if the tax system was truly…

Very cool, I never knew this existed. Going to get one, thanks!

I have actually. It would be great for a GTI, which frustratingly has no (official) central jack point, so getting the car on jack stands is a very sketchy endeavor; I just use my floor jack and do one wheel at a time. I do wheels and brakes twice a year to a summer/track conversion and then back, so it would make…

I’d say on my 2016 GTI, it’s that I can’t get the stearing wheel about 1" closer to me. I like the wheel a bit closer, so I can 3-9 the wheel and rotate around all the way, like I do on the track/autocross course, hands always on the wheel. This puts my legs just a bit too close to the pedals with a bit more knee-bend…

If I owned a car with touchscreen HVAC, it would be #1 by a mile. My GTI is perfect, 3 dials like Jebus himself intended. My wife has a GLC300. It has aircraft-style toggles for HVAC, which while superior to a screen, are so tiny you still need to look at them to find them and articulate them. We test drove an XC60…

And how!

Does a balloon count towards the 5 for Ace?

Oh good, tech that automatically (and almost certainly unnecessarily) slows the vehicle through corners. Like we need even more vehicles slowing from 44 mph to 38 to make it through curves on 45 MPH posted roads.

That white flashing light indicates that a strobe switch, or fire strobe, has been activated. Basically it detects flashing lights from EMS and turns all the lights red to stop traffic. Our town has them, they work pretty well.

Ours was a 2012, and in 6 years we put 146,000 miles on it, and other than that sunroof creak, it was bullet proof. We did do all the maintenance on schedule and took immaculate care of it. It’s probably the best car I ever owned...besides the obvious issue. Loved the size, utility, stability, comfort, and it devoured…

Yeah, my 2016 GTI SE has one. I wanted leather seats and that meant a sunroof. After 7 years and 130,000 miles, the ONLY thing that has broken is the sunroof. It still opens/closes, just the auto function does not work. It’s a nice feature I guess, but I barely use it and would not really miss it. We had a TDI…

I’m not opposed at all to the idea of defending/supporting American manufacturing, and certainly not safety standards (and I’ve read the bad stuff about foreign truck safety at the border), but the point is, the Jones Act itself has failed. It has not produced the ships we need. It has shifted transport to less…

It was suspended on September 28, 2017, 8 days after Maria hit. And over 3 weeks after Irma had already partially wrecked the island. The point is, it should not have needed to be suspended because it should not exist at all. It has not remotely accomplished its goals, full stop. It serves only to create havoc on…

Oh yeah, I often went 301. Upper Marlboro could be a pain with the 100 traffic lights, and it also depended on shore traffic and timing if I wanted to risk 50 and the Bay Bridge. But once you crossed, 301 up to Delaware is the best road going. So they replaced that 2-lane death bridge? That thing was so steep and so…

While I do think that salt is overused, it does seem to be used less and less, but still it does have its place. I live in PA, and over the years do get snow that transitions to ice, and then it stays in the teens for a week. It’s a slippery, dangerous mess that cannot be plowed and has to be melted. Urea and other…