Your wife was right

I tried to convince my wife to look at an Avalon when she got her Accord. It’s an incredible amount of luxury, comfort and reliability for the price.

The biggest one: Overestimating your abilities. Seriously, if you stop and look at something and really don’t understand how it works or you can’t figure out from a quick youtube/google search, please, take it to a shop. We see so much work that, ‘Oh, my buddy tried it first but couldn’t do it’. At that point it’s…

Neutral: To quote my grandfather, “I’ve had enough fun cars that don’t care so much about performance now as I do a comfortable ride.”

This is a repost since it got completely buried in the earlier F-35 thread...but I’m curious how Tyler would rebut it (Note: this is significantly plagerized):

Thats why word of mouth and your interactions with your customers is so important. In the rare times that I’ve had to take something in somewhere I always take it to the same tech. He’a wored 3 places in the last 10 years and I really don’t care why. I did him up and wait until he is available to work on my stuff. If…

MIATA WASNT THE #1 ANSWER?!

Rest in Peace

I’m waiting for Japan to bring in their ringer:

It’s nice to see that not much has changed with driving around Japan since I was living there in the ‘90s. I also enjoyed your article on why driving in Japan sucks. I was in the US Army stationed at Camp Zama (40 miles south of Tokyo). This is where I bought my first car, a ‘79 Celica Supra Mk1. It was an ugly POS…

Honda says the 1.5 liter engine will provide “sporty performance;”


BRRRRRVVVVVVVVVVVVVV... BRRR BRRR BRRRRRRRRRRRRVVVVVVVVVV VRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR


Oh shit, wait, it’ll have a CVT...


BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV…

I just posted a similar comment. My FB page is at 99%, and the only not-so-ecstatic people are (2) lawyer folk who are happy with the decision but not the method used to make it.

Because fueled rockets are scary stuff

That more of the injured didn’t die is pure luck. America has a problem with violence, but we don’t have a monopoly on it. If body count is your concern, Anders Breivik killed 77 people in Norway. Still “this kind of mass violence” and still not in the United States.

Except that America, this is Tuesday.

If the 11.600 RPM redline isn’t a good enough reason, I don’t know what is.

Honda shifter > Mazda

People complain that there is no Type-R