Looking out of the window at the earth and clouds is one of the most beautiful things a human will ever see, but people seem to forget this.

I had mentally picked the van (mom drives one) and the Equinox (uncle drives one).  My third wasn’t a classic under a tarp, it was a Lexus RX in gold, because demographics.

Yeah, mine was white with black stripes down the hood. “Sidewinder” edition. Recaros, Hurst 4 speed, gold BBS style wheels, plenty of rust, and evidently A/C (which does seem weird for a ‘70's eco-import). Along with all of those features it also had the “vapor lock” package, so summers lasted that much longer.

I had a suh-weet ‘78 VW Scirocco with a broken AC compressor in the middle of a Kansas City summer. For whatever reason rolling down the windows did NOTHING to ventilate the interior, so I kept an old folder in my car to stick out the window to direct airflow toward me as I drove. I loved that car but it was a…

That’s always been my confusion...why AREN’T there more competitors?

My dad had a Jeep Comanche that I considered getting from him when he was about to trade it in. He said he thought there was some problem with the 4wd, and whether it cost hundreds to fix or millions made no difference, I didn’t have it. So I regretfully passed on the truck.

Perhaps anything with the words “VW” and “Westfalia” associated should have been included.  

Now a COYOTE on roller skates on the other hand...that could only end well.

I first went to Moab over 30 years ago, in 1992, and was told before anything else to stay on the trail and off of the cryptobiotic soils. I was pleased by the stewardship then, and I’m stunned it was ever allowed to get this bad.

Alternate headline: Airborne fireball disaster stopped by helicopter pilot’s own pee

Looking back it was the coolest car in the lot, but in high school all my plans of getting an MGB or Triumph went out the window when I realized I had the money to get a car immediately. There was a used car lot in town that had a yellow 73 VW Type 3 fastback for $900, which is right about what I had. Rather than save…

I once read a column in Road & Track where the author talked about all the cars he used to have, and someone had commented that he’d be a millionaire had he kept them. His response was HAD he been a millionaire he would have kept them.

A friend from college and I were driving home for break from Wyoming to Missouri. He told me about the time he was making the same trip solo and was in far western Nebraska in the middle of the night when he stopped at an empty rest area. He went into the bathroom and found what he thinks was a dead body on the floor…

Half a car is fine, I’ve seen people leave 2-3 car lengths from the car in front. If they’re worried they’ll be rear-ended and punted into the car in front from that distance they’ve got plenty of other things to worry about before that’ll happen.

Once or twice a week I miss my left turn arrow because someone going straight hasn’t the decency to to inch forward so the cars behind don’t block the entrance to the turning lane.  Seriously, give yourself six feet to the car in front, you don’t need thirty feet.  

option 4: move

My car knows to make a sound when I back too close to something, and it knows I stream music each time I start the engine.  It knows how far I can go before I need gas, it knows when a tire is low, so why tf doesn’t it know that when the wipers are on the lights NEED to be on NO MATTER where you live? 

I’ve always thought AMC was trying to recreate the popularity of the Beetle with this shape, but in typical ham-fisted American car manufacturer committee-think they got every part of it wrong

They got the proportions right on the MKX, I’ve always liked that look.  The MKT/hearse on the other hand looks like it was thrown together from spare parts

Confirms my observation regarding VW.