Good tires will help keep you from hydroplaning in the first place.

...the driver only sustained “minor injuries.”

If the idiots you speak of were all inbread goat-fuckers with lifted diesel trucks rolling coal, you might just be describing my town.

The inbred diesel truck crowd ruins EVERYTHING automotive related in Maryland.

I grew up in Frederick County and now live in Washington County, because Frederick got too dang crowded and expensive.

Hi, fellow Marylander!

Heck, a lot of automatic-transmisison cars do this by themselves now. If you gently brake for more than a second or two, the car assumes you’re on a downgrade and downshifts a gear or two.

I had a ’93 Toyolla wagon as a daily beater. I loved that car.

I AM SO CONFUSED

“andhas lived most of its life driving on Maryland’s often unpaved back roads.”

I used to like this idea, but I have somehow managed to make my FB news feed consist of 98% pictures of Corgis doing funny things, so I’d say Facebook at least is awesome.

Starred just for the awesomeness of that picture.

Isn’t that a 2JZ-swapped S2000?

Those classes are macroeconomic classes, not microeconomics. In other words, they teach supply/demand, effects of taxation on economy, and that kind of stuff.

72 KILOWATTS? Holy crap; that’s a lot of power.

Really? In what class is microeconomics taught in US high schools?

There are a lot of things in that Instagram post and the replies to Jalopnik that don’t add up.

The problem is that most people only look at the minimum payment vs. their monthly income and say “I can afford this [thing I don’t need] and only have to make this minimum payment I can just barely afford!”

Are they having these events anywhere other than Atlanta? Like VIR or Summit Point or NJMP?

“Valuable tool” my ass! It’s a fundraising tactic 99% of the time and that’s it.