Could be worse. Could be an airline.

You need a 911, it’s a joyous year round daily. I have springs as stiff as a 997 GT3 RS but with Ohlins shocks, the ride is totally tolerable on our shirty DC roads as long as the tires have tread. Partial bypass exhaust, no cats, and it doesn’t even drone on the highway, just makes music 24/7. Not as hardcore as a…

I guess it’s just personal preference. I can only take so much cars and coffee and jawboning or looking about cars. I need to drive them. That’s my #1. I also don’t like large crowds. 1m people sounds like an absolute fiasco to me. But I can see how for some that’s their ideal car-activity

Have you lived in TX? That’s where Im from. There are like 5 good roads in the state. It’s hotter than a hootenany, virtually unbearable for 7 months of the year. Austin is probably the most liberal place I’ve ever been outside of San Francisco, and CA has a lot of super conservative people in the wealthy and rural…

You have said everything I could ever say, but better than I could have. Ford should hire you. They have no idea what they’re doing over there anymore

There are a few quarterly periodicals that are striving to keep the quality up there and doing a pretty damn good job. But they’re very different animals from the monthly road test and automotive industry news mags we had in the past

Holy shit. Those are great prices. Bummer nothing like that seems to exist in the states anymore. I’ve been processing and scanning at home to keep costs down

Film is having a bit of a renaissance, check out Cinestill. They make some really well priced home chemical kits, now for e-6 too. I’ve been using their color neg kits for a few years and the results are great. I have to imagine the same could be said about their e-6 chem. Plus they have different versions of the bath …

You should check out the LA car scene in person. It’s not what you think it is

yeah, but you’d be shocked how many c&c in cities across the US deliver the same variety. It’s pretty much the standard these days. 

Wat? This is like 1% of the car scene out there and you can 100% avoid it if you want. Which is wise because it is gross. You should go to LA and check it out. Head up to the canyons. The level of extraordinarily old, rare, weird, awesome things being driven on any day of the week is mind bending. I hate supercars. I…

Correct take. The diversity of the LA car scene is overwhelming. And the level of actual driving activities is beyond compare with a place like Detroit. Plus in LA it’s not crazy to see some of the rarest cars in the world (like former endurance racers with real provenance) rolling by on the streets or the canyons.…

A lot of cities have stuff like this. Not quite Woodward status, but this is not that uncommon. Whenever I travel for work I try and scope out the local c&c and I’m blown away by how many cities have events that a few hundred cars show up to. So that in itself is not uncommon anymore. “Cruising” is kind of dying out…

Good luck is right. I spent the first 29 years of my life in TX (Houston and Dallas). The weather is why I will never go back. Houston has the climate of an armpit. Dallas is just weird. Your anecdote really takes me back to my final week in Dallas back in January 2010. I was wearing sandals on Tuesday and within a…

Yep. These were made when Ferrari was at their zenith of old-school Italian-ness. It was an unsustainable path which resulted in some less than brilliant models... but good god it was magic when everything came together. Montezemolo brought the quality level across the range (and QC) up dramatically, but he allowed…

Sure, but that’s just the superficial side of the issues. Tub damage is the big nightmare + all the bonded panels that need to be removed and replaced. It may never look the same sure, but that’s fine. It may never drive the same, which is the real tragedy

Get out of town. Joey was a wooden figurine that was incapable of banter. Rory was ok at best... but his automotive opinions were completely devoid of nuance, conviction or really any sophistication (in terms of his analysis/conclusions). Harris carried all the weight and didn’t have much to work with in terms of…

It is 1000% better than the prior lineup with Joey Tribiani and their chemistry is defn coming along. But I’d rather just see 3 automotive journalists with personalities than 1 + 2 personalities who are “into cars”

Me driving to look at this car: “I’m going to be very cautious on this one, many questions to be answered”

And yet, I’ve literally not seen a better one in person in 20 years... so yeah. NP for a survivor-ish