I briefly had both a 2000 LS 5spd and a 2002 c230 6spd in my driveway. I think of it as my experimental phase.

Riiiight. You were about to pull the trigger on that new CTS-V, pen hovering over the signature block, when you noticed the OnStar brochure. "This thing has a satellite uplink that would allow the fuzz to shut me down in a heist? Fuck that! I'm gonna go buy a Tercel!"

No. They were decent little cars that people like to dogpile on now because groupthink. The styling was a little weird, and they had the same problems any MB of that era had. But you got a lot of car for less than you'd have spent on an optioned out Honda.

Those are almost a story unto themselves. I always loved the story of the U2 pilot out of Alaska that, during the height of the crisis, found himself lost over the USSR with a pair of apparently nuclear-armed MiGs bearing down on him. He eventually was able to navigate home by the stars, and quite unintentionally set…

bringatrailer.com it is not.

Street Rod isn't 8bit enough? COME ON!

The 0-60 probably isn't that great. But the 0-17,000 ain't nothing to sneeze at.

I was at the state fair when I was maybe 9, and the local national guard outfit had a couple APC's parked for people to check out. A bunch of us kids were crawling around in one when somebody found the ignition. Turns out a dozen pre-pubescent boys can unload an M113 almost as fast as a guardsman can wrap up a smoke…

Portland Resident - check.
Fixed Gear Rider - check.
American Apparel Wearer - check.
Beard Manicurer, Backyard Farmer, Terrible Amatuer Photographer - Check, check, and double check!

I've been in situations where my four banger Escape couldn't muster the bluster to get through deep snow. And when you're trying to climb out of a buried parking spot some good low end torque can make things MUCH easier. Maybe in colder climates with nice powdery snow it's less of a problem, but Cascade Concrete is…

I did this for years in an old pickup - broken speedo, no tach, noisy four on the floor. But I knew it sounded certain ways at certain speeds in certain gears. The occasional radar sign or mile markers on the highway made for nice reality checks, but I was always pretty reliably within about 5mph of where I wanted to…

Actually, it went bankrupt after Timberline Road was improved enough to run conventional busses. This was only a few years later - it ran from 1956 to 1962 or so. Every so often somebody floats the idea of building a new tram, though. With ski areas at the top and bottom already sharing season passes it could be a…

Yes! The 300 straight six (and the f100 it was attached to) was one of the best things about my teenage years. And I can testify to it's miraculous levels of abuse tolerance.

Any pickup. Horrible weight distribution = short trip to the ditch. 4wd might get you going again (if you have it), but as soon as you touch the brakes you may as well be one of those skid-plate racers. And no, a couple 40lb bags of sand aren't going to fix a fundamental design flaw.

No stick, no wagon/hatch, haldex diff.

A lot, I bet. I see TDI Jetta Sportwagens all the time around here, and the sportwagens seem to be a healthy slice of that pie along with the Subies. Just not RWD.

That is amazing. All the more for the argument the judge makes in dismissing the case, effectively eviscerating an arrest based on a pretext stop. I have a hard time picturing the same thing ever happening in an American court.

The one guy I've met who was stupidly wealthy (lived on a private island worth more then most downtown city blocks), drove a 15 year old Toyota Tacoma.

Inside of the windscreen. Chemical outgassing from interior plastics build up, especially over a hot summer. Then one day you get the sun or some bright headlights at the wrong angle and your windscreen is opaque.

Points. Aftermarket electronic ignitions are popular for a reason.