I LOVE that Fiat came back to the US. I LOVE that Fiat introduced something “Mini-Cooper-ish” with the 500, and then the Abarth, and THEN the big 500 with four doors, AND THEN all wheel drive! But I ain’t gonna get one. At some point someone at Fiat said “Eh...good enough”. Come on, Fiat...If FIAT can introduce…

Every one of these questions has the same answer:

I was told they conditioned the leather with bees wax. This may not be true if you’ve got cloth seats.

I put a new radio in my van, but there was a quirk with the AM/FM button, and the radio kept defaulting to AM. Because I never listen to the radio I didn’t really care, but it bugged me enough that every morning I’d monkey with the radio until I realized that AM station was the FUCKING TIME.

Should I use soap to wash my eyes?

I test drove a WRX a few years back, and I remember it was like driving a Nautilus machine. The clutch was like bending steel and the steering wheel felt like what I imagine one of those bank vault wheels would be to turn. I bought a GTI, mostly because it drove like such a sweetheart compared to the Subie. Fast…

We bought a 2012 and it was perfect...on paper. Really, driving it wasn’t too bad, but it was slow and void of anything torque-like. Over mountain passes we’d have it wound out in third because fourth was too big of a jump to maintain the revs so we’d have to shift constantly back and forth between third and fourth…

I have one of those square plastic shapes on my dashboard where my sunroof switch isn’t. Glad to know it’s where I tow the car so I don’t end up looking like this schmuck.

OOH! A MINI COOPER!!

The second paragraph was the most important: “...so someone else offered to let me drive their GTI Mark 7...”

We had a 2000 XC 70, and despite the dripping turbocharger and $1000 oil changes (they kept finding new stuff that needed fixing), I hated to sell it because of those seats. But it was basically my wife’s car, and she didn’t like them because they were leather. So now I’m asking myself, “why isn’t my wife into…

All you’ve done is remind me of my own mortality. :|

I remember seeing one when they were new and thinking “whoa! What is that?!” Odd that at the time I thought this was exotic, it looks like an AMC Concorde, but I guess when you’re surrounded by big floaty rectangular cars with trunk lids the size of ping pong tables something like this really does look sporty.

Good. Another car show that’s not about fixing up some muscle car and isn’t Motor Week. I’ll watch it and enjoy it for what it is and not compare it to anything else.

I absolutely LOVE the 914. That said, I put this maybe a tic above a concourse quality Buick Skylark. Maybe somebody cares. MAYBE.

I had a friend who told me he used to go to a school, explain who he was and offer to speak to a class about life in America. He said that he nearly always got invited to a meal and often a stay at a teacher’s house. He also traveled with a professional looking camera and told people he was writing a story for an…

I know nothing at all about this car, other than it’s perfect.

I always thought AMC made the Pacer and Gremlin kind of weird looking on purpose in a ham-fisted attempt to match the weird-looking Beetle’s success. While they failed completely in that respect, I remember very distinctly a friend’s Gremlin had a “Desert Only” setting on the air conditioning. That’s worth tons in…

My mom has always used her left foot for the brake. This is where the similarities between her and a rally driver end.

“Sometimes dirty oil comes out red”.