Being asked “how is everything” and disappearing server are not the two alternatives. The middle ground is for the server to continue working in and around the dining room, casting his or her eyes around, and being available for head nod or a flag down.

Frequent restaurant customer here. Things that keep me tipping high are just the basics. Here’s my top 3: (1) if there’s something wrong and things are going to take a very long time, tell me up front; I might stay, but I can choose not to; (2) whatever my beverage is, keep me in it; get me a beverage early, keep me…

Can’t un-see...

Go into the culprit’s office. Spot the heaviest piece of furniture. Hide a raw hotdog in it. If it’s a chair or anything with tubes of steel, like the frame of a desk, slide a raw hotdog into the tube of steel and use an unbent coathanger or something to push it really deep. If it’s a desk or something, get that raw…

dude, don’t post that pic with the URL, I’m about to go scoop that sled...

Fleet sales should be factored in. Two times in the past year I have had a Miata RF as my rental because it was just sitting there on the Enterprise lot when I got off my plane! First, kudos to the oligarchy of, like, two companies that run the rental fleets for including the Miata RF. But if I’ve had two in one year…

Here’s my guess, uh, I mean answer. Those car makers were locked into a mental paradigm, cars were like horseless carriages with an engine that replaces a horse. Like a horse, the engine goes out in front to pull the carriage. Oh, what’s this, it gets hot? Let’s run water through it, and pump that water into radiator,…

Hey Andrew P. Collins, how did your ‘91 GSXR do in the small overlap crash? Also, I’m considering getting a ‘75 International Scout—that’s safe for family hauling, right? If not, I’ll bundle them into the ‘84 z car.

Now that you mention it... yes. If you need air to come into the front of the car, forward from the front edge of the hood, there is a great feature, well-known and understood, that can be included on the front of the car for bringing in the air. It’s called the grill.
Come on, designers! Use some god-given sense…

Could you automotive journalists please get together and agree that power numbers are pointless without discussing mass? From physics, given that F=ma, readers are interested in acceleration (a), where a=F/m. For a given amount of input force (power), the resultant acceleration will be inverse to mass. So, can you…

Rreluctant CP. It’s a nice price for that car, but... would I buy it? Not likely.

maybe we’re moving to a stage where “Camry” is a generic word for 4-door, front-drive, mid-sized sedan? Like a kleenex or escalator, it’s just a camry. 

Wouldn’t it be cheaper and faster to let people turn in their Teslas at Reagan, fly to Baltimore, and give them new Tesla there? 

Good.

I voted NP by accident, and now I'm embarrassed. 

Easy. MR2 Spyder.

Lol, yup, esp in the face... that thing is a visual aberration.

Two-door, early 2000s, lightly powered, no volume...

Do NOT give the cars faces, or any facial features. Just show them as the original Hot Wheels styled toy cars. Either in miniature scale a la Toy Story as was suggested elsewhere here, or in full size, with humans being able to get into them.