Jeep. AMC straight-6 from 1964 to 2006. Good for 300,000 miles usually if well maintained.

Went wheeling, alone, in my then brand new 2000 Cherokee. This was before I realized you don’t go wheeling alone. Also, I choose perhaps the worse possible day, what with it being Superbowl Sunday. Needless to say, I ended up dangling off the side of mountain for a few hours waiting for a Forestry Service Humvee to…

Your co-workers already look at you weird. Just be you.

My Cadillac XLR had some of the worst infotainment. In 2006, I guess it was okay, but the touch screen was buggy and faded by the time I’d gotten it. It had buttons for setting the temperature rather than a knob. If I wanted to change the cabin temp, I had to look down, find the button, and watch as I pressed it until…

This one isn’t gonna make it, David. Use it as a parts truck and find a nice one without rust that needs a new engine or transmission or something. Please. I’m begging.

I wonder if her kids enjoyed the Wii.

Good book... An eccentric billionaire buys old soviet tech and moves an asteroid into L2 for profit.

Doubtful. Harness and CPU are almost always separate.

At an estimated program cost of $1.5 trillion, they could have employed 10,000 engineers making $1 million in salary for 150 years. That’s a lot of money for something that doesn’t seem to advance the science of military aircraft significantly.

No one cares... yet. All you need is someone with a name to come and play and people will take notice. Like Mark Webber or some other retired F1 driver.

While out wheeling my XJ, I heard a loud metallic pop. That’s when the spotter said, “You know you only have two lug nuts holding your wheel on?” Simple fix, right?

I think nearly all of these have some sort of limited slip differential in them now, but the wheel speed was so low they didn’t lock up. It’s why a few would slip for a bit, then finally lock up and go.

Needs more lift.

I used to have a long commute in the morning. I’d try to get them over quickly by speeding, so I was usually in the left lane. One morning, a pickup truck comes up from behind me and flashes his lights, and I get over. We’re in a hurry together. No big deal. He wants to go faster.

The cost of the hyperloop doesn’t include the cost to develop the technology needed to make it function. Like the pods. And the air lock system. And the expansion joints. But that doesn’t matter because... Elon.

He’s jumped from a plane without a parachute. I think landing a motorcycle on a barge ranks significantly below the insanity bar after that.

I bought a 1959 TR3A, in disassembled state.

It’s not for yanking forward. It’s for yanking backwards. Pulling a truck out of a poorly chosen river fording spot is it’s typical use.

And how would enforcement be conducted? You’d need a list of every gun owner, and some sort of mandatory testing to ensure compliance. I bet a lot of guns get marked as lost when that happens. “Fell out of the boat while duck hunting... Sorry ‘bout that.”

There’s a lot of technical drift going on, I suspect. The reason for maintaining a team like this is to gather data that helps you improve your existing or future products. But the cars have gotten a bit too wild for that. They’re pushing the limits of turbos and manifolds to get serious horsepower from very small…