And the car mating dance goes on, soon a new generation will be born. /David Attenborough voice.

Contrarian view. I enjoy the CVT in my 2012 Maxima. With 175,000 miles on it, it’s be thoroughly reliable and fits the car quite well. (I have done regular maintenance including CVT fluid changes).  It lets the car be smooth and efficient for highway driving, have a manual mode to play with, and have some fun with a…

I honestly do not understand what y’all are on about here. I came to own a CVT after a lifetime of manuals and it’s been absolutely fine. It does everything I want it to do and I get decent gas mileage. It does what it’s supposed to do.

My favourite anecdote about Toyota was at a car show where cars were just starting to get colour LCDs as standard (so, what, maybe 10-12 years ago), and BMW was touting theirs in their next-year car. There was a guy in a Toyota shirt standing there eyeing, and the Camry he had still have an old greenscale dot-matrix…

Ok, the anti-CVT jerk has officially gotten worse than CVT ever really were. CVT’s a fine transmissions in the cheap economy cars they are normally in. In-fact I have found I normally prefer them in underpowered rental cars as, opposed to a 6 speed. They keep the engine in the power band and make the car feel like it…

Not everyone has the knowledge or means to change their CVT fluid every ~30k, which is the only way to delay imminent failure.

Our driveway was on a hill, so without a doubt our Big Wheel was our #1.

Tyco Heads Up Hopper for me! I literally wore the tires off this thing, and it was a gateway into “real” RC kit cars.

LEGO, hot wheels, & stompers. 

Hot Wheels.
Just all of them.

Hot Wheels Criss Cross Crash, we would set up tournaments to see which car came out on top. Might just pick up another one with my adult money.

I got The Pit Change Charger when I was 5 and it locked in my love of stock car racing and working on cars. I fantasized about being AJ Foyt at Daytona back when there were only 4 races televised a year. I can’t tell you how many times I took that car apart and ‘rebuilt’ the engine, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on…

A true classic.

Hot Wheels. Sooo many Hot Wheels, I had hundreds of them. My dad was always in the automotive business whether it was sales or repair shops. My cousins would come over, we’d pour them all over the floor and choose which ones were “ours” that day. The rest would be all lined up and arranged in little car lots, gas…

As a three or four-year old, this was so cool and was able to hold my attention for a while.

STOMPERS!

DRIVE IT LIKE YOU HATE IT

Has to be the Hot Wheels deluxe set where you just designed your own tracks. Started with this and then added a few hundreds feet of extra track that basically gave you enough to fill a room.  With the batter-powered pushers that kept things moving, of course.

1 - it never looked as cool as this.

The Fit was absolutely dying for an Si (...or even a Type-R) treatment.