Keep the car you have. So many people rush out to get boring ass crossovers and other huge cars they don’t need as soon as they find out a kid is on the way. The GTI will handle 99% of all the kid hauling duties (including the stroller). I’ve managed with my one kid and a Focus just fine and my non-car guy buddy with…

One of the things that I took from the Motorcycle Safety Course riding for most of my life that I really liked is that when someone is tailgating you, to try to increase the distance between you and the car in front of you so that you will be able to slow down twice as slowly and effectively give that room back to…

WOW! Amazing! It looks exactly like every previous Wrangler for the last 40 years! How audacious and innovative! Glad to see the American auto industry is really pushing the limits!

I’m not trying to be a shit disturber or anything. But is there actually any real difference in the look?

2 wheels for stability and BAM! Comfy cold weather ride. Soul-sucking boredom.

The stats on teen crash and fatality rates are staggering, even if a teen never gets into a major accident it seems they are more likely to do something dumb or careless and have minor damage that wouldn’t be a big deal on a cheap used car, but on a lease could cost the parent thousands.

Which is worse, having Mark Sanchez as your mentor, or having somebody mentored by Mark Sanchez as your mentor?

It’s like a different version of the Rocket Fuel problem.

Yeah, I put $15k down on a $30k Acura but still financed for 4 years. Why? Because my interest rate is 2%... I should never have trouble getting out from under it should the need arise, but at 2% I’d be better served investing that money than paying it upfront for a car.

My parents are dead.

No, the grocery store equivalent is the express checkout lane. The motorcycle has four items in a basket, why should he have to wait behind your overstuffed shopping cart? If someone can get through the traffic without taking up a full lane space, that helps everyone move faster. You’re actually rooting for logjam…

If you are sitting in say left lane...forever, and cars are going by you in a faster right lane, do you then want to kill them all too?

But it does probably effect you in the form of your insurance payments. All the additional injuries sustained cost more to pay for, and thus increase the risk pool for all drivers and their premiums. I suppose there is a chance that the increase in on scene deaths reduces care costs and thus insurance costs, but not…

Ironically, for those of us with short commutes, it makes no sense either. For instance I only drive 90 miles per week in my commuter, so my fuel cost is negligible in any efficient car. Even if I drove the Evo (10 MPG) every day, fuel costs aren’t that much of an issue. I only fill up once every 3 weeks as it is.

I would offer the counterpoint about how flying out of PDX in Portland is actually a fairly pleasant experience, all things considered, but we don’t need more people moving here, so...

Primarily, it was fine. Not excellent (although elements were), not dreaful (though elements were), but fine. I’ll watch the second season; most of us will. The first season of old new Top Gear wasn’t perfect, either, by any means, but I think there’s a middle balance between the two that could benefit the show.

The last episode was best. It was less rehearsed, more ‘real’ between the three of them. I hope to God they don’t bring back the American racing driver schtick. That was fucking painful and sad all the way to the end. The celebrity brain crash thing was super stupid too.

Overall, it felt like they had more money than…