No, I wouldn’t drive it, and you wouldn’t, either, after about 15 minutes.

I go back and forth on this and have come to the conclusion that no, I don’t support them. I don’t even support emissions testing.

When my wife and I first started dating, she drove a four-door, dark blue Chevy Lumina 3.1. First off, her entire passenger’s side was dented in, and the mirror on that side ripped off, thanks to an old altercation with a whitetail deer and subsequent trip through a ditch.

My son,

I agree with that, but would also say that high school guidance counselors owe it to the students (not to mention their own job duties and therefore, paycheck) to be up-to-date on the perils of for-profit education as well as in touch with industry groups and know what constitutes a good recommendation to the kids.…

Time for some of my former owner stories (yes, I had one):

You’re going to get heat for this but it’s a good post and there’s truth in it.

That looks like it got rear-ended by something with a high bumper.

I say “gearbox” AND “standard” (instead of manual). I call the bed of a truck the “box.” Turn signals are “blinkers.” Reverse-gear lights are “back-ups.” I still tell people to “roll down” their window rather than lower it, even though we haven’t actually rolled our windows down in 30 years.

I currently have three Jaguars (running Jaguars) in my garage. None of which I paid more than $5,000 for.

I’ve owned two different Mitsubishi Starions now that you could remove the ignition key after starting the car. This came in particularly handy on one of them that had an issue restarting if shut off while hot. I’d run errands, pull up at the store, leave the car running, take the key out of the ignition and lock the…

I’m also familiar with that company. Those guys really hate the words “no” and “can’t.”

What kills me about that shot is he turned the wipers on after he plowed through the grass/went airborne.

Heh, that’s the opposite of what mine likes to do. Doesn’t come on when idling cold, does come on when idling hot.

A lot of Jaguar XJS cars with the V-12 develop what some owners “lovingly” refer to as an “idle light.” There’s an actual oil pressure gauge on this car but for some reason Jag gave the system redundancy with a low-pressure idiot light in the dead center of the warning light bar.

I’ve always wondered how cars with under-hood spares didn’t always manage to either cook the rubber to death or outright melt it.

Wow, gone in a little over three hours. I was actually considering biting on this one had I been able to learn a little more about it.

I guess what has astounded me most by the rush to develop autonomous technology has been a fairly significant rush to ignore the challenges these drive-by-x systems will have with roads that are substandard in some way.

Confirmed. I own one now, a 1987 XJ6. Two separate tanks, two separate filler necks, and there’s a button on the dash that switches them. Great idea except Jaguar misexecuted on two issues: The tanks are saddle-type tanks, outside the frame structure of the car; and the gaskets on the filler neck openings fail quickly…

Well, I’ve actually been in a car directly hit by a tornado before, so getting hit by lightning doesn’t sound as off-the-wall to me as it apparently does to you.