That is a perfectly fair distinction, and I do hope a rotary range extender would prove itself more reliable. I don’t know how the MX-30 fared on reliability because it was a product I wasn’t interested in and we only got a handful of them in the U.S. anyway. If this car does enter the pipeline, I will likely be an…

Two rotors is admittedly better than one, but even a single rotor is one more than most Mazda techs and service departments in the U.S. can handle. And it’s not their fault - the training and knowledge base just isn’t there, or was never provided in the first place compared to Mazda’s home operations in Japan. To make…

Fun fact (okay, maybe not so fun): Thomas Midgely, who played a key role in developing leaded gasoline, also invented Freon and many other harmful CFCs. It is very likely that no other single person has had such a long-lasting and deleterious effect on the environment.

So, the answer to how much horsepower a roof can withstand is somewhere between 1 actual horse and a Dodge Challenger. Got it.

They hate progress because it is anathema to their way of life. What really fuggles my brain is that the area I’m talking about is among the most economically bleak counties in Appalachia. The Chips and Science act tried extending them the most valuable lifeline they would have received in the better part of a century…

It wasn’t forgotten as much as it wasn’t even considered. I can drive an hour south and be in an area of the country where people have sat around for 50+ years and consistently voted red, under the promise that coal mines are going to magically reopen and bring prosperity back to the region. And they’ll keep doing it…

That morning cup of coffee will also get more expensive when Orange Foolius slaps Brazil with tariffs to pressure them into allowing Bolsonaro to return to power -- who, coincidentally, is already camping out at Mar a Lago gobbling up all the orange and musky cock he can.

No apologies needed. They have their place and I’ll admit to owning some that come in handy when I’m doing stuff outside or around the house. The important questions we must ask ourselves, for the purpose of self-monitoring, are:

We all know it’s the Cyber Truck, but I’m going to say the Jeep Gladiator. It isn’t good at anything but projecting an image that says “I am a cargo shorts and wrap-around Oakley enthusiast who lies about attending Ranger school.”

And there was a lot of initial enthusiasm when they resumed sales in the US. People were excited about the 500 because they thought a small and presumably “chic” Italian car would make an ideal urban commuter. Then, the reality hits that infrastructure, personal transportation needs, and driver behavior in the US are…

Sure, give LMPD even more power to abuse. What could possibly go wrong? 

Speaking strictly from a US-centric perspective, I’d have to say Fiat. Although they and parent company Stellantis are internationally huge, they have virtually no presence here and now only offer 2 versions of the 500. Everyone who wanted a 500 bought one years ago and has since moved on, and I can’t imagine anyone…

Did not come here expecting obscure Tina Turner facts and was compelled to dig a little deeper. Her LM002 was cool, but that coach built XJS shooting brake is to die for.

Hardly possible since Isuzu is long gone from the US, but the VehiCross was, and is still, super cool.

This is undoubtedly the top answer. All of the best ideas and innovation went into transport and delivery. This is a phenomenon known as “bike shedding” i.e. - if you bring a bunch of people together to build something like a power plant while simultaneously giving them a smaller and easier-to-reach goal of building a…

Maybe, just maybe, Musk could end up falling from the window of a very tall building, like so many of Putin’s friends and allies have a weird tendency to do. This nepo-baby had a fast ride to the top, and his ride down could be even faster.

Probably about as much as he knows about political asylum, which in his deranged and withered mind gets twisted into “insane asylum” and leads to him making WTF references to Hannibal Lecter that nobody understands when he goes on a tear about immigration. Also kind of like how saw part of a slide deck about ways to…

The Toyota Echo. Exciting as off-brand Tupperware, and also one of the most bizarre video game promotional tie-ins. There were so many cool cars in 1999, yet this somehow got hitched to a hotly anticipated game about space witches and angsty teens with gunblades.

The Honda Del Sol VTEC. To preface, I have a soft spot for the Del Sol by virtue of having previously owned one in Si trim, but the VTEC is much closer to what the Del Sol should have been from the get-go, provided you’re willing to overlook the FWD drivetrain. The entry-level S trim with its pokey 105 HP just…

One of our neighbors in the very middle-working class subdivision we lived in during the 80's had a Ferrari 308 that he’d take me for rides in when I was about 8 years old. My older sister and his daughter were best friends so we knew them pretty well but could never figure out how he could afford such a nice car by…