You're right: I didn't go to school for marketing. Not that it's relevant (hence I didn't address your pointless query earlier), but my degree is in mechanical engineering. You know, the sort of education that allows a "marketing genius" (or maybe just someone with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) to design their…

Yes, you've nailed me dead to rights: I'm so very drab because I don't give a flying shit what sort of box my device comes in, so long as it's functional. Also: I paint the walls in my house a uniform shade of grey and drive a beige Corolla. For fun, I like to watch the aforementioned grey paint dry. Occasionally,…

I enjoy my iPhone and iPad as much as the next guy, but this is freaking stupid.

Ha! That's the exact same head unit I replaced my OEM radio with. Somewhat small buttons, but they are tactile enough to allow operation without looking. A fine pick, my good sir!

I couldn't agree more: for being a cheap Ford, mine has held up remarkably well. Especially so given the abuse it's suffered in my hands. I toss that little goober around like a ragdoll and it keeps coming back for more.

I adore—no exaggeration or sarcasm, I truly adore—the simple, intuitive set up of my old (2001) Ford Focus's HVAC controls. Three knobs, the center one larger than the outer two, in a row: the first controls the temperature, the second where the air comes out, the third the fan speed (0-4). Three simple, large…

Echoing what others have said: Giuffre is a douche. Just let it go, because it didn't cost you anything. It's an obvious mistake, and it appears as though offers/counteroffers through eBay's message system are not legally binding contracts (nor should they be).

Exactly this.

Go for it man! Seriously, I beg you on behalf of other Jalops to pick one up, as I'm sure you can astutely steward it through this awkward "not-old-enough-to-be-a-classic, not-new-enough-to-be-properly-cared-for" stage of its life whereas non-Jalops would just buy one and run it into the ground.

Perhaps an obvious choice, but the E39 5-series (particularly in M5 or Sport Package guise) will always be such a lovely vehicle. The handsome proportions are just spot-on, particularly in light of the E39's homely progeny.

Paid documentary or not, that is a simply awesome story and video; I got goosebumps and damn near cried.

Exactly what I was thinking! Creased Avalon, nothing more.

Tsk, tsk: you forgot the chrome trim on the wheelarches and trailing edges of the doors.

Not to suggest you're the postman's child or anything like that, but 8th-grade biology class told me that two parents exhibiting recessive eye-colors are incapable of having a brown-eyed child.

I didn't cringe at the car itself so much as the god-awful Altezza taillights it had.

Rear-facing seats are in fact safer than front-facing ones, as the seat provides support to the whole upper body (specifically including the neck, and with a nice cushioned surface no less) as opposed to just a few points of narrow webbing across the lap and upper body. It's for this basic and obvious reason that…

Just more evidence that BMW has really gone off the deep end.

Cimarron badge-engineering jokes aside, that is one seriously good-looking little ride. Make that great-looking. If it gets to production looking like that, I'll respect anyone who buys regardless of its Chevrolet underpinnings.

Sure enough, when you go to the spot in Google Street View you see the old coot selling books out of the Civic's trunk. I want to know how the stuff wrapped in a tarp doesn't get whisked away every evening by evildoers.

Crack pipe, a million times over.