The used car dealer where we bought our daughter’s MDX showed us this trick. The headlights needed help, but for a cheap used car he wasn’t going to do anything more than a band aid fix. Good enough is good enough, and in three years we’ve only had to redo it once (didn’t really need it, we just had bug spray and a…

I have nearly the same story, but mine is boring enough to have gotten away with just a thumb print on my knife

We sold our Impreza after a weekend trip to Crested Butte to go mountain biking. Three people and three bikes sufficiently weighted us down enough to get passed driving up Monarch Pass...by AN RV!!  Wound out in third...bogged down in fourth.  Repeat.

I grew up in the ‘70's near Kenosha, and ours was an AMC family so I always wanted to see them successful. But I always saw the Gremlin and Pacer as a flailing attempt to “out-funky” the funky little Beetle, which completely misses the mark. The Beetle was successful not strictly because of its looks, but the combo of…

I was thinking about this very thing recently, and I decided that for me cars peaked between 2010 and 2015 (+/- depending on a lot of things). All the safety, most of the convenience, and dials you can touch. 

Maybe if you got her to understand that in this midlife crisis SHE is the supermodel in the passenger’s seat.

This is the correct answer.  For any of us, really.

Life has enough rules, so I invented my own board game. Each player rolls the dice, the person with the highest number wins. Everyone goes off to do something else.

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I was excited to see this post because I’ve been wondering this same thing. I drive an Infiniti EX37, which is normally aspirated, but the tank flap (and owners manual says it requires premium fuel.  So I’ve always put in premium fuel...but its suddenly now 60 cents more per gallon.  That’s like 10-12 bucks per tank. …

Back before the battery-electric mowers were as good as they are now I decided to get a corded electric. I have about 1/8th of an acre...not very big, but I didn’t factor in anything beyond that. You know when you’re vacuuming and you trip over the cord? Its like that, except the whole neighborhood is watching. And…

I had the 2wd (well, actually 1wd...I found this out whilst parked next to a curb on the tiniest patch of ice with another car parked close behind. Stuck on ice on an otherwise dry, sunny day). This was my first vehicle with variable speed intermittent wipers, which I made good sport of always finding the perfect…

Came here for the GLH. Kinda like the car, really like the initials.

I was in grade school when Star Wars first came out.  My best friend made an R2D2 toy out of a spool from thread, half a ping-pong ball, and a blue marker.  Best Star Wars toy ever.

I was in grade school when Star Wars first came out.  My best friend made an R2D2 toy out of a spool from thread,…

Weird.  My old VW kept Stalin

And I’ve heard bobcats always land on their feet

Totaling a car to avoid FM radio is entirely worth it

Not really all that clever, but I’ve always loved the “Desert Only” A/C setting found in AMCs.

Doing a round trip between Colorado Springs @ 6400' and Copper Mountain @ +/- 9000' my wife’s Forester XT averages 30 mpg with three people and all our ski stuff, including a big rocket box on the roof. We’ve taken my daughter’s (much older) MDX on similar trips and barely cracked 20mpg. I’m totally sold on the 4…