I completely disagree. My approach has always been to try and fix it myself. If that fails what’s the worst thing that can happen? You need someone to tow the vehicle to a garage and they fix it. What are you out for trying? The cost of a tow at most.

Yes, yes! The Samurai rebooted as a pickup! Sadly, I don’t think we’ll ever see Suzuki back in this country.

That 750 is engineered to only stop in front of a Starbucks.

Honda NC700X and Suzuki DRZ400SM in the same paragraph! I’ve owned both and agree that both are good beginners’ bikes. The NC700X achieves much of its lowered center of gravity due to the gas tank being under the seat. That left the tank to turn into a “frunk” for storage. It’s huge. Will swallow 2 six packs. Great…

Fat Tony’s Stabby Stout

Presumably there would be an option for a factory-mounted confederate flag on the rollbar.

I rented one of these to drive around the eastern Oregon desert for a couple of days with friends. My Wrangler is too small. I was hugely impressed by the ride and handling and especially the quiteness of the cab even bouncing down nasty washboarded roads. It even got great mileage and the one time we had to put it in…

Fort Worth Alliance. Their industrial non-passenger airport.

The Chinese have stolen my identity (thank you OPM) now they’re stealing our tracks. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to still be able to go to WSB races at MMP, but this just sounds like another Chinese scheme to take our technology and sell it back to us.

Yes. We need more cars named after slave-owning medieval cultures. How about the new Toyota Hilux-based “Daesh?” It comes pre-stolen from Australia.

I am totally buying Toyota’s explanation. One time with my Range Rover just outside of Sun Valley a rock became lodged in my right rear disk brake. I was forced to climb under the vehicle and use a crude instrument commonly called a screwdriver to dislodge the rock. It took minutes and minutes of my time.

In rural counties try rescheduling for hunting season. Cops love to come in on their RDO because they get overtime, but they will never miss a hunt, especially one they got a tag for in a lottery.

The factory-installed Free Tibet bumper sticker appears to have fallen off.

My niece inherited my mother’s Toyota Solara. The Solara had 24K miles on it. It would have lasted my niece through college, through grad school, through her first marriage (just saying), and beyond. But no. She totaled it the first afternoon she had it by rear-ending it into the car of the friend she was texting.

Once when I was going around the White Rim in Moab in a lifted Cherokee I got passed by a bone stock Isuzu Rodeo acting like we were on I-70. Guy had cojones. Or maybe no sense, but either way...

Good idea about making a permit system with fees that pay the rescue people. Could be difficult though because the USFS would have to run the permit/lottery system and then somehow pass through the money to the County. My recollection is that this is not an easy thing to do.

The “man up front” is in charge of “making sure his passengers arrive comfortable and relieved.” Did they really say that? The pilot’s job description really said that? Not, “Yo, lock your ass behind a barricaded door and try not to pee unless you really have to lest the jihadis take over the plane. And leave it to…

I got tired of waiting for my 15 mpg 2000 Cherokee 4L to die and bought a Wrangler in April. My wife was not in favor of the idea. Then one day she drove it to work with the top off and wouldn’t give it back. I had to agree to let her retire to get it back.

Almaty rocks. There are huge mountains almost right in town and they actually get snow. Combine that with the oil-rich government and their practical, elected dictator and things would have gotten done. I wonder who got paid off to vote for Beijing.

I will never forget the first time I heard that sound. I was walking home from work. Where the road turns to 35 mph I heard that sound for the first time and turned around to look as the future blew by me.