Raise the roof an inch, drop the beltline two inches, and give it a hatch instead of a mailslot trunk lid. Impracticality is fine if you’re chasing midlife crisis buyers who already have a minivan. I’m 30, single, and making decent money - I should be a target buyer for pony cars. But my car has to actually do shit.…

4th Gear: Trump Says NAFTA Car Tariffs Would Be Canada’s “Ruination”

Can’t unsee Hyundai Tiburon

That red sure doesn’t do it any favors.  Green isn’t bad, though.

I have one of those laying around, too. Mostly I just end up fixing my parents’ patio furniture with it. Anything more substantial is “government work” for my company’s much nicer MIG welder.

This could be anyone who found themselves feeling complete desperation and simultaneously had access to a firearm. An individual’s mental health isn’t a constant. You can’t screen out the nutjobs if you only check at the time of purchase, because a few days or years later, that person’s life could completely bottom…

Better simile: An engine with big torque with low horsepower is like a dude who’s so ripped he can benchpress a Mini Cooper but smokes two packs a day, so when he tries to push it down the street he gives it one big shove and then can’t catch up with it.

Yep, just put an X on the end of Taurus and you’re done.

I do like white cars, especially with a few black accents - everything just pops. Gotta love the stormtrooper look.  And they stay cool in the summer.

I’d be fine with gray, too. Any light color on the surfaces you touch all the time: seats and steering wheel, and throw in some accents in that color to tie it all together. Just keep the carpet and lower trim black.

I wouldn’t mind no carpet. Volvo XC90 gets pretty close, though I’d prefer the steering wheel in tan for the summer, too.  

Tried all kinds of floor mats; grease still finds its way to the carpet. And no way I’m giving up the handling and Chicago street parking squeezability of a hatchback over a color combination. I could just swap out the carpet and trim if I had time, but this whole post is about wish lists for the factory, no?

The wiper/headlight connection should only apply when the headlight switch is on auto. To my knowledge, nobody’s auto headlights detect fog, so if you’re using just your fog lights, you’ve already taken manual control of the lights, and using the wipers would not affect it.  At the very least, using the wipers (with…

Light colored dash, steering wheel, and seats (leather for easy cleaning), with black carpet and door sills (not just the floor mats).

Ford and Washtenaw Community College already won this game forever by hiding most of a Ford GT inside a Ford Five Hundred. Lose the spoiler and the stripes, and you’re good to go.

I got a chuckle from a recent one, but I’m afraid to google it on my work computer, so I’ll paraphrase: Man Tells Friend “Carpe Diem” After Masturbating Five Times Yesterday

My favorite album for longish trips is Meatloaf’s Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell. My brain is convinced that every song ever lasts exactly 3 minutes and 20 seconds, so with most of the tracks being 7-8 minutes long, it really makes the miles fly by. And it has the gearhead-oriented songs “Life is a Lemon and I…

It’s kind of amazing the hangover we will have to face after a president who doesn’t even drink.

I agree that Pruitt should not be within a million miles of that agency.  However, with the earth only having a circumference of 24,901 miles, we can really only get him 12,450.5 miles away on the planet’s surface.  So...who’s gonna make the call to Elon?

Sadly, shop classes are often sacrificed on the altar of standardized testing, so many with the aptitude never find out. The closest thing my high school had was fashion (read: sewing) ...and now 12 years later working an automotive stamping production engineer, I wish I had taken that class. I’ve finally been…