I’ve gotten three IRS scam calls this past week. One said the IRS FBI was coming to arrest me and the only way to stop it was to send the IRS a $500 gift card.

Clearly our esteemed VP follows foreign affairs closer than the auto press (I hope.) The Tesla Model S is wicked fast and can beat almost anything out there. It only lost to a Ferrari F12 by .52 seconds.

I grew up in the Detroit metro area. I was contractually obligated to love cars.

That screen is crazy huge and I suspect a big distraction.

Is 7.8 seconds really a “7 second 1/4 mile?” It’s really more like an 8 second 1/4 mile.

Call me dense but how is this massively different, visually, from my M-B GLA250? It’s also been called a slightly taller sedan. I like the look of the F-PACE and the base model seems well equipped, but I just don’t see the difference from a visual perspective.

I returned mine immediately. It was wicked slow so much so as to be unusable.

Amatuers.

Two things, both in the Detroit area. The first was seeing the very first Mustang in the Henry Ford museum. The second, and most recent, was seeing the abandoned Packard factory, which is the largest abandoned factory in the world.

My father taught at a Community College outside of Detroit and he would teach night classes at the Ford plant in Ypsilanti. If you drove a foreign car (especially Japanese) onto the lot, you would find it vandalized when you returned. This does not surprise me at all.

I’ve only had 2 crashes on motorcycles. One was where I was stopped at a construction site and an idiot took his eyes off the road and rear-ended me. A couple hours in the ER and I was sent home none the worse for wear and $4,000 richer, after the insurance company replaced my bike.

I once rode in a bus that was going around a highly banked curve at the Chrysler Proving Grounds, in Chelsea, MI. I was there on a field trip during high school with SMASH (Students of Michigan Attaining Safer Highways.) Yes, I was indeed a highway safety geek.

Really? Having door projectors is reason to beat someone up?

Guilty as charged. It’s pretentious, but cool. I might just switch them to something else like a Death Star or the Star Wars Empire logo.

I love my Scout. I wouldn’t trade that extra HP for a lower price, though. It’s a great bike and a lot of fun to ride.

My 2013 Cadillac ATS had this weird problem with the stereo/climate controls. They would completely wig out and be unusable. I’d park the car and after a while it would all reset and be ok until it happened again. And this wasn’t even a CUE-equipped car.

Actually, the OP never said what the rider did wasn’t wrong, he said it wasn’t dumb. It is possible to be dumb and right and conversely wrong and not dumb. Doing something wrong (or illegal) doesn’t automatically make it dumb.

This was my first car and it was actually kinda cool for $7500 at the time.

How is that at all different from a Can Am Spyder?

I wanted to test drive a Can-Am Spyder, but the dealer wouldn’t let me unless I was approved for a loan. I walked out and went to another dealer who asked if I had a m/c license and I showed him my license and he said, cool, I’ll bring one around. The idea that I would let them run a credit application to get a price…