Minivans are awesome. You can fit full sheets of ply inside of them. You can haul eight people, two dogs, and a weekend's worth of crap while getting 20MPGs on the highway. You don't have to care about dents, dings, or scratches. Sliding doors are a shitload of fun for having friends jump in, or immensely…

What's the snorkel for? Wouldn't any water they come across be frozen?

This might be more true than you realize. Drunk drivers don't tense up in an accident, which causes less damage to them physically, and after a traumatic injury don't go into shock as easily, increasing chances of survival.

I ride my bike for my commute. Cuts insurance further, cuts operating costs further, and makes it so driving is almost always an enjoyable activity versus a commute.

But saving a few bucks on each model has led to a 1.4M+ unit recall. Just being cheap isn't enough.

Remind me again how well that worked out for the Cobalt and Ion?

I'm glad Volvo is sending data to your butt.

Is this until they can get the parts in to fix your Cobalt, or while the Cobalt was being fixed? I know some people that are still driving their car because the only letter they got was, "We're waiting on parts, be careful."

I remember seeing these when I was younger, and that they faded away over time— I sort of wondered why but never really bothered finding out, and just assumed it was an older car that hadn't sold well initially and I hadn't seen for a long time. I would have never guessed that they were all gone. Cool.

They could also be toting pitchforks in lieu of wings if they weren't drinking Red Bull before the crash.

That's a lot of GM engineers with wings.

1,400,000 affected vehicles is a lot of parts.

Could this be intentional? The only time I've ever seen a jet engine in action, it was pretty hard to miss the fact it was still running. If it's shutting down, could it still be pushing enough air quietly to make it eat a safety pylon but not be easily noticeable?

This sounds like the Opticom system. They've been around for awhile. The older ones looked like this, and were a simple "change the light when you press the button". The new ones seem to be a lot fancier.

All of those have a manual gearbox, too. Something Porsche would do well to remember.

Doesn't diesel have a longer shelf life? That might be an option instead of gasoline. The extra power would be useful to haul around all the liquid, too.

Does Gran Torino count as a car movie?

I can fit 300 horses in my Camry, but it's Euro-spec.

Especially in pothole season now, if you don't realize that you need some extra power to get out of a hole, you can easily end up stalling out. I've very nearly done that a couple of times lately.

People like to rag on Apple Maps, but it's been wrong the same number of times for me as Google Maps has been. Both are startlingly good compared to a few years ago, and if nothing else, having a strong competitor will push Google even harder.