1) I generally don’t leave the top down, but if it’s a very short stop I will leave it down.

It all feels like a bit too much, like one of those email forwards your aunt sends you about the college professor who calls God a dickhead until some ex-Marine Marine in the classroom decks him.

And this was one of the several reasons we traded an ‘11 Outback 2.5 CVT for a ‘13 3.6 w/5-speed auto.

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For those who don’t understand: I am paying the GGT on my new car, and while I don’t like it, it’s a strong incentive toward greater fuel efficiency or electric transport. It’s costing me money. I don’t want to spend that money. But if we want more electrics (and higher efficiency in general), then we need to actually…

Actually, based on the quote from CARB in the article (if I read it right), they won’t go to that extreme. Makes me wonder how many granola-munching, Birkenstock-clad, TDI driving hippies work there? They might not be willing to give the same consideration to any other auto enthusiast, but people perceived as their…

Neutral: Rewrite the Gaz Guzzler Tax for the 21st century.

Some strong opinions on this one, to my surprise. As the song was playing I kept waiting for the “terrible noise” or any other negative to rear its ugly head... it didn’t. Pretty chill, basically house music. I could play this in the cube farm and I don’t think anyone would bat an eye. The kind of tunes that make a…

Normally I would say that a placeholder in the firmware does not proof of product development make. It only means someone has thought about it, and adding a placeholder in the code was cheap future-proofing.

Fun but also a bit disappointing... I replied to a post of the first vid on Facebook “it’s not what you ride, it’s how you ride it.” Kinda sad to see that no, part of it actually is what you ride, as evidenced by the engine mod history on his site. Oh well... he's still good, but it's just a little bummer to see not…

I’ll be walking with you. I loved my 900SS, but I’ll be the first to admit I’m no superstar rider.

The average new auto loan also reached a record $29,551, up 4% from a year earlier.

In all seriousness? I’d buy a 275 GTB/4 and an F40 to fulfill the childhood dreams. Then I’d throttle myself back to $150k-$200k/year (“comfortable”, and covers kiddo’s special medical needs), a chunk would go into a capital and income portfolio as a “backup” salary, and the rest? Would go into a philanthropic entity.…

Yeah, I know it’s just pics of models. Sorry, got off on a tangent while I was writing that. I guess it’s more that there’s some perception in the “lifestyle” marketing that happiness is bad. Ducati and Triumph do a much better job of this... while some of the models might look moody, a bunch are shown with…

Please tell me you’re joking about trickle down making his assertions questionable.

All I see in these pics is a reminder that wealth =/= happiness.

FTFY.

LS swap not your thing? No car “hyper” enough to drop that lusty LS7 into? Why not just design and build your own limited-production supercar around it?

“Ugly”

Still torn between this and a C6 Z06... because a normally aspirated 427 is a glorious thing. I know it’s slower but that engine makes me go “HHHHRRRRNNNNNNGGGGGGGHHHHHH!” This car really needed a bigger-displacement derivative of the LT1. They need to remake the LS7 in the LT architecture if they really want to make…