Would he make a viable candidate against the demented, brain-fried 72 year old he have in charge now?

Just update the style a little - no need to change the actress:

I think the person that drives this vehicle wouldn’t mind meeting with Drumpf even if their entire family was wiped out in a mass shooting:

As someone born in SoCal in the ‘60s and who grew up in the smog-filled ‘70s and ‘80s, let me just say fuck the federal government for wanting to take away California’s ability to set their own emissions standards. Things were so horrible for so long, with seemingly no end in sight, if you could even see. California…

Now that he’s resigned, does this mean that I never have to see one of his commercials on YouTube, the ones that say he’s innocent of all the charges and that it’s just a ploy by the mean old democrats? Annoying AF since you couldn’t skip past them. You don’t know how many times my iPad was nearly flung across the…

Porsche 968 says: “Only 2.7 liters? What a cute little engine...”

I already have a small car, sort of. Small for a minivan at least. 6 seats, a manual transmission, and so narrow I have to use the armrest of the passenger’s seat to feel comfortable. Next I’ll add a Miata of some flavor, something that nobody ever accused of being large and/or inefficient. The Lotus will arrive after…

Fiat 124 Spider. Lots of family trips up the California coast in that thing, when it was running. Hard to believe that was our only family car for years.

I think the Dodge Caravan and Chevy Astro also offered a manual, as well as my old favorites from VW, but that was ages ago. In the last quarter century? Yeah, probably only Mazda, and for that I’m grateful.

I’ve had flashier and fancier cars than this one, but this is the one I plan on keeping forever. I may even buy other vehicles, probably a Miata, but this little guy isn’t going anywhere. Two of my favorite automotive things are boxes on wheels (check) and manual transmissions (check). I have a better chance of…

Uh oh - this is hitting a little too close to home. I drive a six seat minivan with room for one right now. The back is filled with a big-ass shop vac that I don’t want to take into the basement (yet), laundry supplies, several cases of water and other large stuff from Costco that need to get into the house. If I…

Luckily for me, the car I could afford was also the car I wanted; after all, how many manual transmission minivans could you find new in the US in 2012? I could have bought something more expensive, but I’m at an age where I am no longer interested in driving something fancy, flashy and full of toys; been there, done…

Wel, he was trying to go directly from 5th to 3rd, but pulled the shifter a little too far to the left and jammed it in. I guess he wasn’t as experienced with manuals as he said he was.

100K on a clutch? Not if you do it right. My BIL only got 40K out of his first manual car and somehow persuaded the dealer to replace it under warranty, whereas I finally had to replace the clutch in my 525i at 231K miles only because a co-worker did a 5th to 1st downshift and vaporized what clutch material was left.…

Thanks for the kind words.

It’s the best of all worlds IMHO - fun, practical (sliders are the best things ever), cheap to buy, insure and run, small on the outside and big inside. It doesn’t attract any undue attention, and being a minivan it’s more-or-less ticket repellent. Sure, there are faster and flashier cars out there, but I’ve already…

I was first introduced to Alain via Speedvision, back in the mid ‘90s on a pirated cable TV signal. A friend and I were F1 junkies and needed a fix when we discovered the unlocked cable connection point and did a little splitting and splicing, this in the days before everything was scrambled and encoded. From sailing…

Thanks for the kind words; It was just a little something I threw together whilst waking up this morning and doesn’t necessarily flow as well as I might have liked. The topic intrigued me since it’s something I believe in and figured that I should share my thoughts with a different author/forum; I’ve written similar…

There is nothing like the wail of a BMW I6 at full-tilt. Someday, should I become stupidrich, I’m going to import an E34 M5 Touring...

The one and only! After years of expensive German machinery I’ve come to appreciate the honesty and simplicity of relatively basic transportation. Thankfully it’s a pleasure to drive, unlike some appliance-like minivans I’ve had in the past.