Garbage can lid pop-riveted into the floor to fix a hole.  Kinda proud of that one.

My first car was a VW Type 3 fastback. After a winter of scraping the inside of the windshield whilst driving, I had the idea to install a fan to do the work for me. Trouble was, I had ZERO dollars to do anything with pizazz, but as evidenced by the rust hole patched by pop-riveting metal from a garbage can lid into…

28 grand?  I’m trying to figure out how to respond without using the “F” word

At LEAST 30mpg. I have walked away from good cars because no sunroof, no bluetooth, ugly steering wheel, etc., but I’m kind of done with $80+ fill ups.

Imagine how good he’d be on Top Gear

I actually love the Renegade for reasons I can’t fully rationalize. I love the looks from both the front and rear, but definitely not from the side. What keeps me from getting one is the wheels are freakishly small.

The “car?/SUV?/van?” argument is a selling point to me.  

I recently used the G-Wagen as an illustration of the term “Conspicuous consumption”

Automatic headlights should be hard-wired to your wipers as well as the light sensor.  At least mine should.

“in 600 meters turn right on Bischöflich-Geistlicher-Rat-Josef-Zinnbauer-Straße.

Ooooh...SVO!  I love that car

I wished for a Quattro, but was way too poor. I had the Coupe, though, and it was outstanding. The dashboard was held in by gravity, but otherwise the whole car was pretty solid. I asked my mechanic how many miles I could expect to get out of that 5 cylinder, he said “nobody knows yet”.

Lots of people like to say Kansas, but look at a map.  Nebraska is the same, but bigger.

Sorry.  That picture is the LAST of the V8 Interceptors.

Something about not getting the cabin pressurized properly. The captain said at any moment the oxygen masks might drop, but they never did.

No, they already felt like they’d survived hell

Air Canada used to be our gold standard for trips between Denver and Montreal. A week or so ago my wife and daughter had their Air Canada flight diverted because a crack in the fuselage. They flew at 10k ft to MSP and got rebooked (without seat assignments) on a 1pm flight the following day.  Scariest trip of their…

There’s likely an Acura in my distant future

We had an XC 70, an ‘01 I think, and the presets were better than nothing. But with the Acura it works with the fob, so it sets itself up just by unlocking the door.  The only flaw in the logic is most of the time the car is in the garage and not locked.

That would drive me nuts.  I figured out a shortcut for my infotainment...I circumvent the car’s voice commands by talking directly to my phone.  “Ok Google, play Spotify”