I’m in between two thoughts on this: One, I do not support the creeping ideal that we must check every decision we make for ourselves past a committee of other Americans so they can decide whether to approve it or not. Whether people like it or not, this is a country underpinned by personal, individual freedom over, no…

Yes, we can always make reasons for why our own complaints are viable but the other side’s aren’t.

On my fifth one. I know the guy that owns the one in your picture, too. Very talented guy who is doing some innovative things in regards to keeping them current.

Thank you. You said what I would like to have said and will have it published, rather than languishing in Grayville like my posts do because I don’t agree with most of the staff.

There are two timelines here that, absent some kind of authoritarian push upon me and other by the government, are going to remain true for the rest of my lifetime (I’m in my 40s):

1. As is frequently said, until charging times and range get not just equal to, but better than ICE-powered cars, it’s not “better” tech,…

1989 Jaguar XJS V-12. Not only did I daily it, but I had to commute 260 miles round-trip for three days a week for three months following a job change, until I could get in a house at my new location.

What’s “straightforward” is the definition of subsidy: Paying someone to do something they would not otherwise do.

How you can translate that to also mean taking only x+0 amount of money from someone rather than x+2 or x+5 is a logical fail, so long as “x” represents some money being taken rather than given, which is…

Unless it’s Gary, Indiana. Definitely not harmless.

Chrysler Conquests/Mitsubishi Starions have a fuel pump access panel in the bottom of the trunk that, if you can get it off (it is sealed in with silicone), grants you direct access to the pump sitting on top of the fuel tank underneath.

Guess what is too big to fit through the hole?

I’m getting ready to buy either a Mini Cooper JCW 2-door hardtop, or a VW Jetta GLI Autobahn. Neither of those cars are anywhere close to what I’d most like to buy, which is either the manual Jaguar XE we were promised 2 years before it hit stateside, or the VW Arteon if I had to buy a Volkswagen, or any number of…

I was expecting this, unfortunately. I think it’s a miscalculation on the part of manufacturers as to exactly who is looking at manual-transmission cars.

It’s older buyers who want performance driving. Because they’re older, they also want the comfort and convenience features (leather, the larger engine, the “good”…

Everything has its cycles but it certainly appears like we’re going to get to a point where everything is trucks, SUVs, then a big gap, and finally a random hatchback here or there, and then sports cars. If there’s any good side to this, it will be that SUV haters (hand raised) will end up having to go to sports cars…

The LTD was briefly less than a full-size car. Around 1984, Ford shrunk the LTD down to something about the size of the four-door K-car LeBaron. Lincoln did the same with the Continental. For a few years, the LTD nameplate was decoupled from the Crown Vic modifier.

We had one for about two months. My dad had bought a…

A great take, one of your best ever, if not THE best ever for the site.

I can’t tell whether you’re arguing for spreading population out into the rural areas (good idea), or some kind of eugenics on par with China’s one-couple-one-child policy (bad idea).

As long as sex feels good, and people answer the call of wanting to have a family around them (not to mention create a handful of future…

I couldn’t give you enough stars for this post if I tried. The only good thing to have come from the Covid economy is that I hope it has grabbed a lot of Americans by the shoulders and given them a good shake as to what living cramped in cities has gotten them. I have lived in large metros, mid-size cities, mid-size…

Good idea if the end game is reducing traffic enforcement in general. Bad idea if this moves enforcement to more camera systems.

The traffic-enforcement-as-”civil”-fines thing has turned into a racket the mob would be proud of. Some cities have lost control over their own ability to set yellow light lengths, for…

Owner of five StarQuests here, as well as a Galant Sigma at one time.

This greets me every morning in the garage:

The XE was squarely on my radar screen up until it launched without a manual transmission. I own an XF, and it is a superb midsize sedan. But mine is 10 years old now and I wanted a manual (not out of the question since you could still get an F-Type with a manual at the time). Initial reviews of the XE all mentioned…

I drive one every day. 1988 Starion. I’ll miss them big-time when they’re gone from our shores, but I know that day is coming.