Driving the car for a few months so she's immune from the possibility of a mental error under duress? If you think that, she may not be the only idiot.

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If you've reached the point of kicking the jack handle, the friction on the lug from the weight of the car (already reduced if the tire's flat) is going to be small relative to the friction from over tightening. It's much safer to get the lugs started/finished with the car fully on the ground.

First: yeah! Jag on 1! We got the top spot.

Reserve not met. Unless you have an excellent crystal ball I'm not sure how you know this will end up being "way less" than an FS-R. It's a low-miles M3 with some highly desirable mods. I'd hazard a guess that it will end up at around the $26k price of the Toyobaru. If it was actually on sale at $15k I'd buy it right…

Alright, the only thing I can find on ebay is a normal XJ6.

Probably my most earliest memory about car love:

Man a while back I saw one of these for sale for under 10 grand. Yes a XJR100 not a regular one.

They don't make them like these anymore, and didn't really when the x308 XJR was new. As someone else mentioned, the earlier models had rectifiable tensioner issues. The headliners inevitably drop, and they eat tires and fuel at a rate you'd expect considering their curb weight. But it's all worth it. XJRs are…

My hero.

Must Read: Year of the Goose, Part 1: An Experiment in Motorcycling, or finally learning to ride a motorcycle after 30 years of dreaming.

I love my 2000 XJR. Such a brilliant mixture of refinement and speed. The power is very nice, and super torquey. It never beats you about the head with it either. You never get really thrown into your seat, you just advance very, very quickly. Handling is quite good, in an odd way. There is a significant amount of…

They can. The XJRs are actually very robust on a basic level. There are numerous small issues that are all easily fixable and once complete, you're left with a very reliable car. I've beaten the hell out of my 2000 XJR for 40k miles now, and haven't had a problem. Replace the secondary timing tensioners, put the…

Case in point that the government should not rely on citizens breaking laws as their funding source.

the documentary on this was one of the saddest things I've ever seen

Without a jury-rigged fuel system, this could have been the third airworthy B-29:

In lieu of a time machine, I am still in need of a series of huge Taschen picture books covering these great old European shows.

I know you're going to get either no stars or ridiculed or both...but you're exactly right.

We're going to see a lot more of this. My belief is that speed laws, photo radar, laser guns, photo radar vans etc are used largely for revenue generation under the guise of 'safety'. Speed limits are simply too low on most highways and expressways. Motorcyclists are demonized by cops and the news because they are so…

Good for John Hodgman. Fuck Uber. They've made San Francisco extra intolerable right now. Ashton Kutcher, sit down and shut the fuck up.