Oh the irony, since my primary Cadillac dealership was a Hummer location... Its stand alone, the service work has been great, sales experience stellar (two ATSs), but they never fail to lose my reservation for service when I make an appointment. I chalk this up to never being able to get the same service writer twice…

Having followed Dan Palatov’s adventures for close to 10 years (his blog is excellent), his accomplishments are impressive and I hope to someday have the means to get one of these toys in my garage.

Too soon. And Andrew Simpson was a member of the Artemis team, not Oracle...

The 8 speed in my 2016 ats4 2.0t is way better than the 6 that was in our 2013... Yay lease pull ahead!

Amen. After raiding with a bleeding edge progression guild on a server full of them (US Mal’Ganis) during Wrath of the Litch King I was done. Came back for a bit of Cataclysm to see the new world but... the burn out endured.

Something else had to seriously go wrong here. The ignition point for CNG is 300 degrees C higher than gasoline (537 vs 232), and the tanks are designed to vent, well prior to rupturing in such an explosive manner. As the son of an engineer who worked on conversion systems back in the 90s I vividly remember the oh so…

What’s it rate?

The irony being the only speeding citation I have gotten living here was by a State Trooper... in Detroit, even...

First, I will acquire a large amount of property in some out of the way place, hopefully with some decent topography and natural visual barriers. Perhaps an old airfield?

Then I will build the ultimate man cave/garage/fortress of solitude. It will look not fancy from the outside, since I’m an Architect and can…

From what I understand from every parent in my age group I pray my son never grows into the Caillou phase...

And Alan Trammell loses his last chance to get in. Pretty weak.

This list is invalid with Forge being knocked down to #7.

I feel your pain. I have to imagine it’d be amazing with the manual... Our 2013 has been awesome though. 8 months left on the lease. Only complaint is that its pretty weak at the “does it baby?” factor... trunk will barely fit the stroller, and getting the car seat in and out the back door requires way too much…

I have two, both from driving home from late night studio sessions in college (Architecture school in Detroit...) in the early 2000s.

Its probably around 2 am. On Livernois I’m a half block behind a big Caddy stopped at a red light. It doesn’t immediately move when the light turns green, but its in the lane I need to…

I feel the same when she’s running right. The feels are strong, since she was the first car I bought on my own after graduating college. Mine is also BMP. Package 1. I unwrapped her Jan 27, 2006...

Its becoming a real love hate relationship as she nears her 10 year birthday... Nearing 140k miles, more and more stuff is breaking, and I am having a hard time justifying repairs (I did fork over for a full set of headlight bulbs the other week...).

What’s the real perception of Stafford outside Detroit? Do you really see him in demand anywhere? He has ZERO pocket presence, can’t read defenses, and rarely gets himself out of bad situations. Maybe I’m just a jaded Lions fan but now I’m curious.

My point was that VW has been experiencing camshaft problems for 10 years now, and hasn’t fixed it. My GTI is a MkV, with the old 2.0t FSI motor. One would hope they’d get this sorted out so that they aren’t rebuilding engines under warranties that they’re forced to extend to 120k miles (my first replacement was done…

Irony of Ironies, it was the Intake camshaft on my 2006 GTI which has been replaced under warranty (TWICE) for the same thing, eating the cam lobe on the fuel pump... they wouldn’t spring for the damage that the shrapnel did to the tone wheel though...