Well, if anyone made a small, fun to drive, manual transmission mini-minivan I might be tempted to replace the one I have, but since it’s unlikely that this combo will ever exist again in my lifetime, if ever, I’ll just have to hang on to the one I’ve got. I don’t want anything with a trunk, an SUV/CUV/SAV/whatever, a…

In the past, whenever I thought of V twins I immediately thought of HD, which meant that I figured that they all sounded terrible and were vibration-prone, crude and lumpy. Then I helped a friend buy a Suzuki Intruder and discovered that V twins could actually be smooth and pleasant. Personally, I would have no…

Yup. I was given mom’s old station wagon, and my sister got to choose her own first car as long as the value was the same as that of my old wagon. Skip ahead 30+ years and she just bought her 16 year old son a brand-new BMW X2. He’s going to have no sense of reality and what that first car truly represents, and for…

Then there’s people like my slacker 16 year old nephew who was given a brand-new BMW X2 as his first car, before he even had his license. Crashed it on the way home from the dealership making an illegal left turn and getting T-boned, with my sister in the passenger seat. Perhaps there are people that should wait…

One of my favorites thanks to THPS2.

I had one of these, a 1981. Beige on beige, no options. I bought it because it was the lightest water-cooled VW I could find. I worked at a dealer and we built up a crazy 2.1l motor and this thing was scaryfast. I surprised a lot of people and got into a lot of legal trouble with that beast.

I am thankful I didn’t grow up in an era of social media. Somewhere out there is an old, probably VHS, video of me doing about 115 in my Rabbit GTI for a student film back in high school.

STOL. It's amazing some of the fields that this relatively large aircraft could fly from.

Recently I was trying to figure out what caused me to get colon cancer at a relatively young age and was not coming up with any viable theories to explain my predicament. But now I am relieved to finally have an answer thanks to that brilliant man of science and reason, our leader and savior, Donald J Trump. Thank…

Lived in LA from 1967 to 2012. Can confirm.

Yet another reason I'll probably keep my Mazda5 6MT forever, other than the fact that I really love this car. 

Don’t have any regrets, because you really didn’t miss anything. I tried a few SLKs with manual transmissions when they were new, and they were mediocre at best. That transmission never turned a Mercedes into a BMW or Porsche, or even a Vanagon for that matter - those all had transmissions that were more pleasant to…

Well, my ‘Save the Manuals’ sticker is on my Mazda5 since one would automatically assume that a Miata has one. But Mercedes and manual? I’ve driven several, and they’re bad enough to convert a manual die-hard like me into a lover of automatics. New or used, it doesn’t matter - Mercedes had never figured out how to…

And yet if you pull into the parking lot at my local GM plant you could park that Blazer up front, whereas if you drive up in an American-made VW, Honda or Subaru you are required to park in the back lot.

And the McLaren F1 uses taillights from a bus...

Or in massive quantities at the various dollar stores...

Pappy’s? I work just down the street from there but I can never get in - every single time I’ve tried the line has wrapped around the building.

There was just an order placed for 10 A350s and 290 A320-series aircraft, announced just this week. These kinds of things don’t happen in a vacuum, so they've known about the need for some time.

So true. It’s amazing how many people wanted to race me when I drive a Porsche - Volvo, VWs, BMWS, etc. I never took them up on it (and never received a ticket in that car either), figuring that the outcome was already a foregone conclusion so why put my car and innocent bystanders at risk. I had nothing to prove and …

Yeah, but does it have dual 10 inch wheels?