Depends on the car...as you can see above...the 4S hardly suffers at all in the wet, unless you’re driving through a monsoon, you’ll be just fine.  And on some cars, using anything less would greatly diminish the performance. 

This site wrecked your article Fancy Kristen. But thanks to it I now know this plane has:

What, autos are fun too...

You shut your whore mouth! 

My older brother inherited the same car in black from our mom’s aunt in 1998 with about 40K on the clock. Good times cruising in that car and cheap to operate. I remember being able to fill the tank for $10. I also remember how slow it was. Like painfully slow. At 96hp the 2.0L was no match for my friend’s ‘92…

I love this. It’s proof that even on a light budget you can join in on the fun (and even have something far more interesting sometimes).  I also have to admit having a solid crush on the old Escort and to a lesser extent many of the early 80's designs. 

I love these people. There used to be a cars and coffee gathering at a grocery store I would hit early on Sunday, and I’d see the first arrivals as I was leaving. There is some money in my area, so Ferraris and Lambos would be present along with your typical 911s, M cars, etc. But what I loved was the dude with his…

I love this post. It’s so true - immaculate boring cars from the 80s always catch my eye. When they are clean, you really appreciate the design elements that we don’t get to have anymore - low beltlines, pointy noses, large greenhouses and teeny tiny A-pillars. Even the most mundane looking cars start to look special…

Thanks for writing about these people and their cars. I’ve seen a few restorations like these—even a Chevette, but it’s been a while since I’ve seen it—admire the owners and wonder about their thinking. In that regard I’d be interested in reading a more in depth interview with some of them.

The bigger problem is that it’s difficult to get a decent deal on a new car, and enthusiasts want a good deal on their car. That means that, in order to get actual value, they have to wait, at minimum, 1-2 (more likely more) years to get a good deal on a car they want to buy. There are enough people who give zero…

My daily is a 2018 A4 6MT I bought new in December. It is really sad they’re not selling manuals here anymore. I like Audis. The styling and that Quattro grip. But I demand a manual. If the last manual in production is a like green Civic with no navigation, no radio, no AC, and only half a steering wheel, I’ll be…

They usually are a bit more rural. My in-laws live just off Dalles Mountain road which is used as a stage in the Oregon Trail Rally.

lol, we can’t even get keep race tracks open.

If a rally hating farmer was in the USA he’d be shooting the cars as they go past, rather than just simply blocking the road.

They do! Well, depending on your state, and also not at the WRC level. There’s some rumbling about maybe adding a WRC round in Canada, but in the U.S., we’ve got the likes of Rally America, ARA and NASA holding rallies in places that aren’t........Texas. (Where I live. Grumble.)

I took my driver’s test on a manual, and I wasn’t allowed to coast to redlights/stop signs or I’d have failed. 

Bullshit, indeed.

Yeah, Imma go and call bullshit on that one. I’ve never heard anyone suggest you put your car in neutral while in motion (short of trying to catch a stalled engine without stopping, e.g. you found 6th instead of 4th, and just missed disengaging the clutch in time for the engine to spin back up).

And as for engine…

Indeed this is what I do. I try not to let the engine do too much of the work of slowing, but I do try to always be in a workable gear until stopped in case I need to use it. I can think of two times I’ve kind of used it (both times people not paying attention, one coming up behind me not realizing the light was red,…

That’s just putting safe driving over pure component wear. Which is not a bad tradeoff at all. Your dad was right, from the perspective of good driving.