More than half of the population alive today was either not born or old enough to be aware of O.J. Simpson’s fame and notoriety, let alone his birthday. This whole trend of virtue signaling because someone or something is doing something on a date that something happened in 19XX that 99.99% of the country is not aware…

I am so glad that I’m not the only one. I could care less about Call of Warfare or Medal of Quake or whatever army cosplay games are out there creating a new generation of wannabes. I just wanna pretend like I’m driving cool cars that I’ll never afford in real life.

1st Gear: Ford. Has. No. Charging. Infrastructure. They will fail to sell anything more than what Nissan or Chevy has sold for BEVs without committing to funding real fast-charging infrastructure. If you don’t have the Tesla sizzle, you better at least be able to compete on charging. They need to give Elon $1 billion…

Black on Black E46 manual for $3,300? Sure why not. This is a fun car for summer days and I’d just store it during the winter. The drivetrain and electronics are dead simple compared to more modern fare. The black leather isn’t as bad during the summer as you’d think. Leather stays fairly cool and cools off quickly,…

It’s fine. Just fine. A good car. More expensive than the competition, but just fine. Stereo is adequate. Back seats are vestigial and serve no purpose. But it’s fine.

Hot Take: These were better than an XJ in every way, but not quite as good as the Explorer. Better rear seat legroom, on-road comfort, fuel economy, and body-on-frame as God intended. Load up the way back with Kickers and throw an Alpine deck in the dash and you had a solid ‘90s ride. I remember my Dad test driving a…

They’ve been selling the Spark EV and Bolt EV for years. You can go buy one tomorrow. Granted the Spark is now out of production, it’s widely available on the used market. The problem is lack of charging infrastructure, and GM doesn’t want to pay for it. Tesla did, and that is why they sell every single car they…

Funny how the Chevette donated parts to a couple of different sports car designs in the ‘80s with the Impulse and Fiero. I think Lotus even tweaked the suspension on these for a while.

It’s probably worth it to the 750,000 or so people who will purchase one this year, and around 10,000 people who contribute to building them. Maybe a few of those people will purchase some of the products advertised on your blog.

Oldsmobiles were great cars for eating up windshield time. Unfortunately their name didn’t quite work in the late 20th century. The only real dud they ever introduced was the Olds Diesel. Other than that, they were reliable, comfortable vehicles that weren’t flashy or drew much attention. Even the names were…

Venza/Highlander == Olds 88/98. Same market demographic too.

That’s a damn shame. My LP is solid as a rock, but I think it was built before all the weird chambering stuff they did a few years ago. The only thing I don’t like about it is how the joint line on the two-piece back is perpendicular instead of straight, but nobody looks at the back anyway. Store gave me $200 off back…

I haven’t seen an ESP (not an LTD) for less than the price of a Gibson in a long time. You can also buy a MIM Fender for less than $700 bills now. I actually have a Gibson LP, a MIM Strat, and an Ibanez on the wall along with assorted guitars I’ve built for fun, and agree that the $400 Ibanez is probably the best…

CP for not having the decency to swap out the front fascia for the SHO bits. That leads me to believe the donor car was also involved in a forward collision, which means the owner didn’t swap in the cooling system for the SHO engine and it’ll probably overheat. I also remember when Car and Driver performed the same…

Yeah, and I’m not seeing how his cousin is any more grounded than he is just because she was “hesitant” to accept a job that she didn’t consider herself to be qualified for and was probably offered to her just because she was born into the Ford family. I guess Ivanka is more grounded than Donny Jr. because she…

I don’t know many 55 year olds who are buying Les Pauls. Most of them are paying for their kids to go to college or the McMansion their second wife wanted. People in that age bracket seem to be hitting Audi and BMW if they can afford it.

1. Ford Mustang packages: Bullitt or Shelby.

The E-cars were nutty from the start. They built the new plants in Lansing and Poletown and wanted some high-tech machines to come out of these new high-tech plants. They wound up taking pieces of the A, G, and W cars and mushing them together to produce the E-cars and it was not a good thing. They sold in…

Bear in mind, what else were they going to replace them with? A few brave souls bought Turbo Sprints, which is still the MOST hilarious thing I’ve ever seen (imagine a Yugo with 3/4ths of a Hayabusa engine and Japanese build quality), but yeah, it was mostly Berettas. They were cheap, got good gas mileage, and the…

I can tell you exactly why this Fiero wound up in Mesa.