Aye, voice control if you are Scottish is a shitshow.

I want the James Bond spy gadgets.  Oil slick, smoke screen, dual machine guns (also with a bullet proof rear window deflector), pop-out spinners on the wheels that cut into the other car, rocket launchers, ejecto-seato-cuz, and can a guy get some friggin’ lasers???  

“If anyone was stupid, it was the owner for making demands they knew they couldn’t enforce. The service writer knew what he was doing, I guarantee they were calling the customer an “asshole” and took the car out to spite him. They might not have even bothered if he didn’t say anything.”

One of the most broken minded…

Ram 1500 with the metal badging on the armrest / center console for the front seat. This metal “Limited” badge becomes a branding iron when sitting in the sun, even on the gentlest summer days.  Numerous is the times I have burnt my right forearm on this blister producer.  

I would probably say the Optispark design on GM’s LT1 V8. They put a distributor with an optical sensor for crank position pick up directly below the water pump. If literally anything blocks the path between the optical sensor and the laser the car has ignition issues. This means car washes, large puddles, and what…

Somewhere in the great beyond, Smokey Yunick is smiling at the attempt.

Not altering safety equipment is pretty much universal for every job in existence. So it’s not like it was difficult to say this was illegal.

I agree fully with you. It is incredibly annoying.

While they might be underpowered, they’re f-ing cockroach engines. They’re still chugging along all over here in the rust belt.

Oh yeah. And the over the plug style exhaust manifolds not only meant that the spark plug wires were constantly getting fried, and GM put heat shields in there.

The 350 Oldsmobile Diesel. It was unreliable, unrefined, dirty, and it was terrible to drive. The 0-60 was around the same as the quarter mile time. Words cannot describe what it’s like driving an underpowered slow turning diesel in a land yacht with a 3 speed. This is the original reason diesel became a bad word…

Any 1981 Cadillac with the V-8-6-4 engine.

Large shark fins are the answer.

Those sensors that tell me I’m leaving my lane when they see cracks in the pavement came too soon.

You’re assuming that most people can afford the car outright.

When I went to basic training there was a class on how to brush your teeth. Seriously. 

Just get a wireless dongle and plug it into the usb port...

The Honda Element. It was the perfect sport-utility vehicle with the emphasis squarely on utility. A flat floor and low load height meant you could fit things in the Element that wouldn’t fit in a suburban. Fit 2 mountain bikes, your girlfriend, all your camping gear for a week and a dog in it comfortably. Bags of…

I feel like Quiznos would have died off anyway. Their food tasted pre-chewed.

Cars aren't several stories tall, though.  The engineering required to build a structure that cavernous is impressive on its own.