Ah, theres your problem. You have too many cylinders. And turbos. N/A 5 cyl here, and it loves 1500 - 3000 rpm.

I like gas engines. But I’d also like an electric car. Pretty sure the only things I’d miss are the sound and rowing gears.

Oh fuck all that. I’ve lived here for 12 years and I’ve been on the Ike twice because it was a complete piece of shit the first time, but I didn’t learn my lesson. I got off on literally the first exit I saw (which took 30-45 minutes to get to) and derped my way home to Evanston on surface streets.

Hey now, the 300 wasn’t that bad and could be had with a 5.7 Hemi, powering either rear or all wheels!

And that Impala had the SS... so there’s that

I’ve actually always liked the Five Hundred. It’s very conservative looking, yes, but it’s downright gorgeous if you compare it to the competition.

SF is its own special breed of bad traffic. crossing Market Street is a logistical exercise best left to General Patton, and making a left onto Fulton Street may as well require a call to NASA.

Try the same thing again tomorrow at 7-8AM. DC is clear today because all the feds and contractors had the day off.

All part of my new book: ‘Things you would never see in the US’

2006-16 Chevy Impala right side taillight.

That’s my car! I bought it from a fellow in June and took it around to as many car shows as I could this summer. Such a fun little car, I’m only selling it to fund my other projects. You might notice something in the second photo :)

Preach. I live in Vancouver and work in Northwest (in the industrial area north of Montgomery Park.) In the morning when I leave at 5:00 a.m. I can get to work in 15 minutes flat. Coming home at 2:30? 30 minutes minimum. Usually 40, and an hour is not uncommon.

I too was baffled by that one. I mean, look at the map—did you happen to notice the enormous body of water between it and SF?

WTF I-80W at Emeryville is in Oakland (Emeryville, actually) and then goes North to Richmond. I hate it when news companies lump all of the cities around SF into one big conglomerate. There’s 400k people in Oakland, everybody knows where it is.

I spent two years in that area. Fortunately, I was able to live only about 15-20 minutes from work, and my commute was strategically planned so I was driving the opposite direction as peak traffic. The fact that so many people willingly and voluntarily spend 2 hours or more per day in the car each way/twice a day to…

I lived in Alexandria, but bought a place out in Bristow 7 or 8 years ago. I work in the Springfield area and traffic is bad enough now that I am in the office by 0615. I used to wait and come in on the back side of the rush and leave around 8:30, but with crap drivers and school buses stopping in the Clifton area,…

Why anybody would willingly spend three hours a day commuting on 95 just so they can live in a slightly larger home in Stafford or Fredericksburg is beyond me. Same goes for commuting into the DC area from Gettysburg, or Winchester, or Martinsburg, or northeast Maryland...

Somewhere, the engineer who pitched the Big Dig is crying tears of joy (and wiping them up with $100 bills).

That Northern VA traffic is no joke. I used to have to go north in the morning, and south in the evening. I would run the entire 495 beltway every day. I was entering it at 4 o’clock to get to work located at Tyson’s corner about 7 o’clock.

The river architecture tours are worth it. Seeing the city from the river is a unique experience and the guides have plenty of interesting factoids to share.