Meanwhile, the first time I put my three-year-old daughter on a Minnie Mouse Power Wheels trike, she floored the pedal and then froze in terror as she went straight for twenty feet until she hit a tree. She just sat there, foot still to the floor, and sobbed until pried her hands from the handlebars. 

She’s five now,…

I don’t think they were implying that the Explorer is a minivan. Instead, they’re referencing that it began the trend of SUVs becoming the more socially-excepted replacement for the minivan as de facto family transport, at least for those that wanted to project a more “adventurous” image and reject the soccer mom…

I’ve only been pulled over once since having a conceal carry, and that was the first thing I told the officer. He asked where it was, I said it was in my bag in the back seat. He never even asked to see my CCL.

That being said, I’m a rugged-looking white male in a deeply-red part of the state, so YMMV.

The ‘90s was such a transitional time in the automotive industry, between the bare-bones, smog-restricted, square-bodied ‘70s-80s and the tech-filled retro-futuristic and “angry kitchen appliance” designs of the 2000s. It’s also a time where there were still clear differences in approach based on what continent each…

I remember when my mom got on Facebook, she was so excited to find and reconnect with people she’d lost track of over the years. There was a nearly 35-year-gap between her graduating high school and being introduced to social media. She was able to find far-away family members as well.

Meanwhile, I can count on one…

I’ve done a number of dumb things in cars, but here’s a good one:

Best friend in high school goes away to college while I go to a local university. We’re both “good kids” - no drinking, drugs, etc. Then his parents get a divorce and his fiancé leaves him in the space of a few months. That’s when the drinking and weed…

When I saw the headline, I thought it was going to be about those, like, AAA Tours that old folks take to Branson or Niagara Falls or wherever. For some reason when I was like 14, my mom booked her and I on one of those tour buses to a few days in Pigeon Forge. She was the youngest person by at least 10 years (other…

Fun fact: my mother-in-law used to babysit a little girl named Rebecca. That little girl grew up to become a model. She then married Nicko McBrain, the drummer of Iron Maiden. Rebecca and my wife’s family have stayed in touch all this time, and my MIL still gets Christmas cards and Iron Maiden swag from “The McBrains”…

Many sources (including Guinness Book) say that 532 cars were destroyed just in the making of Transformers: Dark Of The Moon.

Also, Bay often sources his cars from the insurance companies that cover the films; they were flood-damaged cars not able to be salvaged/resold. I’ve heard the same thing about The Matrix films.

One of those giant Tootsie Rolls shoved in a tailpipe is horrendous. They smell something like a serious internal coolant leak and a live chicken on fire as they burn, and if you get it up in there far enough, there’s no evidence.

My high school, many years ago, had an open lunch due to a too-small cafeteria and being located in the middle of a small rural downtown. Within walking distance was a grocery store with a decent deli, so we’d go get sandwiches and chicken strips and hotdogs there a few times a week. On our way back from lunch, my…

Oh, my poor Neon. I tried very, very hard to keep it clean. But, I was a heathen college-age male who lived with his parents, so I spent a lot of time in it. Eventually, the...patina that it received from my questionable habits increased exponentially with time. Food gets spilled, drinks get spilled...other things get…

It's nicer than my Chevy Cruze.

GMC JimmE.

This is a universal truth.

I think the difference between most city and rural drivers is that, mostly, city drivers seem to know how all the signs and markings and rules work, but don’t care. Rural drivers, having rarely encountered anything outside of a stop sign, don’t actually know how this stuff works because they…

Considering that I visit Pittsburgh maybe once every 2-4 years...I’m not going to argue with that. At least by now, I know which lane to shoot for.

There are worse roads, but the one that makes me the most furious is I-376/US30/22, aka Fort Pitt tunnel and bridge.

So you’ve never been to Pittsburgh, because it’s Pittsburgh, but you’re heading there because a sportsball team is playing someone black-and-yellow and you’re trying to impress your bang-buddy. You even…

Wondering if some tech company claiming to soon be “revolutionizing” some aspect of the drone market is about to get a knock on the door from someone at the DoD.

I occasionally borrowed my grandma’s 1985 Buick Lesabre, which was basically the same as the Caprice, when my own car was broke down. I even took it to prom.

Of course I’m going to vote minivan. The cargo floor is low, which means you can put a mattress or blanket in there and stay out of view of the windows, which are factory-tinted and have sun shades. Also, who's gonna suspect a minivan? It doesn't have the creeper vibe of a windowless cargo van parked on a desolate…