Engine failures like this make me miss the V8s, when there wasn’t any turbocharger to collect the bits and bobs as they make their way out of the crankcase.

I’ve never lived with a complex as all hell German car, but I have lived with a complex as all hell Japanese car (Nissan Z32tt), and it’s no more fun when it fails than when an American one does. All the clusterfucks of engineering are less fun when you’re behind the wheel.

As a follow up question, who decided it was a good idea to take on > 100k in debt on a degree of such questionable utility?

If you have such money troubles, why do you continue to live in the most expensive place on Earth?

That was about 95% of their utility to me back when I kept cars outside.

Oh, I wasn’t suggesting it. Just answering your question.

I have evaporative cooling instead of central AC.

What I did was run up a really huge draw one month (900KWH), and got the power company to sign off on a plan for nearly covering *that*. My usual high-draw months are closer to 700KWH.

Now that you’ve thoroughly judged the man’s eyewear, consider where he’s from: New Mexico. The only state that more exactly approximates living on the SURFACE OF THE SUN is Arizona.

I challenge you to try it once.

Wow, if you can’t pass a bicyclist without putting yourself in such a dangerous position as to either wreck or kill someone, you probably shouldn’t be driving.

At long last, Lexus has given us the optimal car-fart to nose experience without all that extraneous intervening cushion to dissipate the olfactory glory.

Dave’s version of “build an engine” was more or less “shine a flashlight down it after taking off the oil pan, and declare victory”.

On a scale from “nude at school” to “Parents watching you bone”, how embarrassing is it to operate the “SkyPad” week in and out?

I had thought we’d be beyond “I know you are but what am I” at this stage of American politics.

I did a double take at the image header, like “those can’t be the Sandias in the background...”

I towed my 240Z to and from California on a car trailer with a Toyota Tundra and had two blowouts.

That “old Japanese guy” was Yutaka Katayama, the man who made Nissan work in North America. He passed away in 2015.

For any serious usage, that black and decker’s gonna fail. How anyone expects a blower to last longer than a season with a plastic impeller is beyond me.

For any serious usage, that black and decker’s gonna fail. How anyone expects a blower to last longer than a season…

Hmm, looks as though the front fell off.