Uber wants to stop paying human drivers, and I heard Lyft’s president (or CEO or some such higher-up) wants to end private car ownership. If I’m ever without a car, I’ll hail a cab, take a bus, or just walk. Fuck that ride-sharing bullshit.

Reading this article, and comments made to it, made me realize I’m pretty sure I’ve only owned one vehicle that ran a timing belt: a 1995 Dodge Dakota with the 2.5-liter four-banger. (If I’d known at the time that it had a timing belt, and was a gutless wonder, I wouldn’t have bought it.) I prefer timing gears, but…

You are correct: the 300 inline six (and its smaller, shorter-lived brother, the 240) had timing gears. Great engines, I might add.

I have rules when it comes to tattoos:

4-speed, to me, means a 4-speed manual transmission. Using that name for anything that isn’t so equipped smacks of laziness and sacrilege.

It looks all right but for those damn wheels and chopped top (being tall, I kinda like having headroom).

I hear all manner of vehicles well before I see them. Exhaust systems are no match for demon salt.

Fingerprint scanners aren’t terribly sci-fi. The laptop I bought in 2010 had one.

Use of the past tense is very appropriate. The Villagers that stayed in the Detroit Metro area seem to all have returned to the earth.

Not quite...I suspect the Jeep in the article didn’t have enough rust for David’s liking.

I find it not at all coincidental that a lot of those stories took place in California and Virginia...two of the shittiest states in the union.

If it’s more Lucas jokes you’re after, here you are!

The rolling pizza oven was involved in an accident. It subsequently wound up in a Copart auction. Almost certainly, someone held an insurance policy on it and has been compensated. Therefore, unless I’m really missing something, only Sam has a legal claim to ownership of the vehicle. And the livery and any…

A Mercury is what made me a car enthusiast. It looked pretty much like this:

I don’t really give a damn where it’s mounted...I just want a full-size, matching spare!

Unless your dad is very well-off, I’d have him sell the Mercedes rather than give it to you. If he has an abundance of money or other assets, then take the Mercedes and use it as a second car while driving the Acura into the ground. Unless, of course, you only have parking space available for one car. If that’s the…

Sure, the new Ram might be a truck. This, on the other hand, is a real truck:

And after a few months of living in the truck, the repo man will come to collect it. Your comment perfectly summed up why paying $70,000 for a truck, especially when a perfectly capable truck can be found for five percent of that figure, is wasteful and stupid.

I don’t care for the notchback Fox-bodies as a whole, and especially not the treatment on this one. My cats could have made better-looking wheel arches (or fender flares, if you prefer), and my dog could have designed a more cohesive interior. And it’s topped off with those atrocious California pretend black plates!…

With regards to the Jeep situation, were the owners notified of the recall? Perhaps I’m playing devil’s advocate here, but if Daimler-Chrysler (or whoever is parenting Jeep these days) sent a recall notice to the vehicle’s registered owner, they should have had their asses covered legally. They shouldn’t be…