I bought a used Model S and installed a 50-amp charging circuit in my garage. My wife drives a minivan. I fully intend that from now on, one of our cars will be fully electric. It just makes so much sense, especially with the minivan for road trips until the combination of range & fast-charging network make ICE…

Dead giveaway for me: Driving without headlights during rain or dusk.

On Porsche 914's, the windshield wipers “park” toward the left side, so they’re directly in the driver’s field of view. (They don’t retract as low on the windshield as most modern cars.) However, my 1974 914 has a defective wiper switch, so the wipers don’t “park” — they just stop wherever they are at the moment you…

My 1974 Porsche 914 has the interlock. Most owners have bypassed it, which is simple enough to do, but my car came to me in 2009 with interlock still intact and I haven’t bothered to eliminate it. In fact, if there’s pressure on the passenger seat, that belt needs to be buckled, too. Pretty advanced technology for 40+…

Have they ever filed taxes jointly? If so, she’d be legally entitled to copies of their tax returns. She could be holding the key to impeachment.

First car I ever drove was a Maroon 83[-ish] LeBaron convertible. My Dad bought it for my Mom for her 50th birthday. One day when I was home alone, about 14 years old, I moved it up a hill in our driveway. That car never idled right and at the time it had been tuned to idle way too high - I never hit the gas pedal…

I spent the better part of the past decade driving one of these. Sold it in September, and even I have already forgotten about it.

Remember, Infiniti initially wanted us to call it the “Q-by-four”.

Model S driver here... the panorama roof is tinted quite dark. IMHO it barely makes the cabin feel “lighter” than a light-colored headliner might. When the roof is open, the front & rear glass overlap and the result is almost like x-ray film... you can look at the sun through it. And the Model S did not come with a…

I was driving behind a pristine ivory C3 the other day and noticed how elegant — yes, elegant — the rear design still looks to this day. Very Ferrari 246-ish. Even with the phallic front end, these are not bad looking cars; you just need to view them with an objective eye instead of prejudging them as underpowered,…

MAACO Blue? I don’t get it.

If I had a more manageable work schedule this week, you’d find a Yellow ‘74 Porsche 914 pacing you along the Capital Beltway tomorrow, with a grinning, waving, frantically gesturing me behind the wheel.

This, in a nutshell, is why I’ve spent the past decade DDing a Kia Rondo.

He named his son Otto.

Fun Fact:

My Saturn Yellow ‘74 had original documents in the glove box from a dealer in Maryland. And I’m in Virginia; it’s been in this area its whole life. Early model year 2.0 with ‘73 gauges and brown interior.

If your uncle lived in Maryland, I might have his car in my garage...

This actually bothers me a little. I’m all for rear-view cameras, but repurposing the mirror while backing up isn’t adding a new safety feature; it’s trading one for another. I’m sure the shiny new Caddy has another LCD screen somewhere; why take away the mirror while backing up instead of supplementing it with…

Funny, true story:

My family had a Ford Econoline conversion van with two tanks. Each held about 20 gal. There was a switch under the dash. Was always kind of cool to flip it and watch the gas gauge swing back from E to Full.