Nice stuff, but where are the M1 pictures? That intro shot was an unfair tease...

Grandparents and technology - sometimes it works. My grandma wasn’t into computers or anything of a technical nature, but for some reason she loved my iPad, a 1st generation unit I acquired back in 2010. She had an almost childlike fascination with that thing and was quick to grasp how to use it, something I didn’t…

I don’t care what color interior you have, having anything other than a matte black dashboard top is crazy. Yes, color matching may look nice, but the reflections are ridiculous. A friend brought over his newer 5-series, and the glare made seeing straight ahead quite a challenge on a sunny day. I’ll take safe over…

Or no images whatsoever. I’ll try again tomorrow...

Somewhere around here I still have the calculators that got me through high school and college:

I remember looking at a can of Foster’s and seeing it proudly marked as being imported. Yeah - imported from Canada...

*Checks door jam on 2012 Mazda5, sees that it’s made in Hiroshima*

I’ve driven one with a 911 engine in it and it was absolutely hilarious. The suspension was stock, so it pitched up under hard acceleration and dove down under braking to the point that it felt like we were going to do an endo...

The EPA ratings on the diesel were hilarious - 29 city and 29 highway. I assume that this was because you used the “accelerator” as an on/off switch, driving it flat-out at all times. I still can’t believe that they made a diesel Westfalia...

You nailed it. Over the years we had three in my family, my mother having one of the first ones in 1980 and one of the last ones in 1990, and I had a 1983.5. For some mysterious reason I fell in love with the the Vanagon the moment I first saw one in 1979. I don’t have one now, but some day I’ll get a Westy. In the…

I loved the smoothness of the engine in my Vanagon. It was fairly easy to work on a well, with that nice big engine cover in the back. OK, it did tend to suffer from head gasket issues and only put out a whopping 82 HP, but the sound is one of my all-time favorites, as odd as that may sound...

Highest stock market, best economic numbers, lowest unemployment...

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A friend and I met up at a local BMW dealer in our E34s. Whilst waiting for parts we checked out the then new E60 that they had on the showroom floor, mostly to ridicule it between ourselves. A salesman came over and did his job, trying to convince us that this was the greatest thing since sliced bread, even…

Offline mode on Google Maps. I only have 1GB of data per month so I use this mode to help me get around without using a byte of data.

Is that everywhere in IL or just near Chicago? I’d love to pop across the river and pick one up in Southern IL but I suspect they’ll all be several hundred miles north of here...

There is a reason I don’t drive through North City. This kind of lawlessness is incredibly common in all parts of that area, most often in some crappy old Pontiac or Impala on cheap chromed 20s. Passing people by going straight through right or left turn lanes, driving on the wrong side of the road, ignoring red…

I’m willing to bet that almost anyone that used or owned a Commodore computer in the ‘70s or ’80s knows the value of pi to eight places thanks to that one magic key...

Been there, done that, and more places should take advantage of this. The sewage treatment plant (left) near LAX pumps their methane to the Scattergood power plant (right) to generate electricity.

Hey Priebus - no matter how you try to slice this ‘nothing burger’ I still see plenty of meat in there...