I have an obvious soft spot for the Dodge Neon. Build quality was...not, but so many folks missed out on the smile-inducing power and handling based on its reputation and cutesy looks.

I had this Viper GTS poster as a kid:

A mistake was made.

I have three stickers on my vehicle - one at the bottom of the rear window, one on each side window. It’s the only way I can spot my generic gray minivan in a full parking lot.

Last year we went on a family trip to Pigeon Forge, and it just so happened that the week we were there, the convention center was hosting a meet for stanced vehicles. It was...interesting. I didn’t go, but I saw lots of flat-brimmed ball caps and vape clouds. I did see a couple of nice JDM imports, but mostly it was…

Oh god, I bought an S10 Blazer that had these. One of the first things I did was rip it all out. I think part of the reason was that the factory lights on those were so dim, but I fixed that by running a separate battery circuit, properly fused and relayed along with some good halogen (not Silverstar) bulbs.

When I had my Blazer, I put a set of decent Cooper Discoverer A/Ts on it and they were just fine.

The amount of trucks I see with mud tires worn down to the wear bars because they never actually go off-road is both sad and concerning. 

The Sequoia is to Toyota what the Tahoe/Suburban, Expedition, and Wagoneer to their makers - a big truck-based SUV meant for towing your family and RV to the lake in comfort. It’s almost as if Toyota has swapped the LC and Sequoia places, which makes sense in a way.

I guess it depends on where you live and what you’re looking for. A quick browse of AutoTrader shows plenty of Camrys and Corollas near me for under $20K with well under 100K miles.

Looking at satellite view, it appears that they removed the trees from the side yard and that there’s a new drainage ditch installed:

I checked, it’s from 2008. So 15 years ago. A lot could have changed since then - the ramp-up to the drive could be steeper, etc.

Several years ago, a young woman driving very fast while high on various substances launched her car off this curve and into the side of the house you see in the picture. The person who lived there normally would have been home in bed, but he just so happened to be a Civil War reenactor who was camping at some…

I found the house on Google Maps. Looking at Street View, it appears that there’s a little bit of a ramp in the yard leading up to the side of the driveway. Still, the driver would likely had to have been going fairly fast, but it’s not that hard to hit 70-80 mph on a backroad in a small, comparatively slow car like a…

Because Daimler-Chrysler management wanted everything Dodge made to look like a truck, even if it was a Mitsubishi Galant-based hatchback. The team that made the PT (Tom Gale) had nothing to do with Caliber, which was handed over to a junior designer from better designs by Freeman Thomas. Not an enviable task.

Boomers effing loved these things, because a.) the styling, b.) the high flat seats, c.) easy to see out of despite the styling, d.) cheap to run, because basically a neon, e.) so much rear cargo space it qualified as a light truck.

Honestly, I drove my boss’ PT a few times, and except for the styling I rather liked…

The 2002 Thunderbird and New Beetle should have been on this list.

That’s what she...nevermind.

“Panda” by Desiigner, but only the Kevin-Hart-as-Snowball-the-rabbit version from Secret Life of Pets II.

Because who doesn’t love a rap song in a kid’s movie about driving a white X6 through Atlanta, using your stolen cash from credit card scams to buy Xanax.

It struck the leading edge of the hood. Made a fist-sized dent, then somersaulted over the car and landed dead on the road behind me.