I was attempting to reinforce your message, not scold you.

If you have a garage, use it to park your car. I live in a subdivision where all the homes have two or three car garages and many of the residents do not park any of their vehicles in their garages. In addition to keeping my cars safer, cleaner and less unpleasant to get into in extreme weather, garaging my cars…

I bought a 1976 Plymouth Volare new. This badge-engineered cousin to the Aspen was a truly terrible car. Particularly bad was the four-speed manual transmission.

I have been told that replacing a windshield on a car with a head-up display is very expensive. Would it be even more expensive with this new technology?

Back in the day, circa 1969-1971, the McLaren CanAm cars were orange and some of the TransAm Mustangs were of a color that was described as “school bus yellow” or “school bus orange.” They looked great and sounded even better.

I know Sarah Lancashire from Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley, she is a talented actress. This could be a very good show.

I doubt that I am the only one to be reminded of Santayana’s line: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

What is your take on the best gluten-free pizza?

I am mostly concerned about physical reliability and durability, but obsolesence could be an issue.

The arrival of full autonomy will just be the beginning of the story. The real test will be how well the systems hold up in the long-term, say after 10 years or more.

Lola was a big deal back in the day, I particularly remember their CanAm cars.

When I was 10 years old, my family had returned to my parents’ hometown for a few months. One of my uncles took me down to the family business, an International Harvester dealership, gave me five minutes instruction on how to drive a stick shift and turned me loose on an old tractor (a Ford-Ferguson?) in their side…

There are also tire pumps that use the 12V outlet.

It is never as simple as advocates of technology would have us believe. We need to get better at understanding the total costs of any technology that is being adopted.

First, I would work for world peace and the end of hunger. Then I would move on to the more important topics and buy lots of cars, starting with a Ferrari 250 GTO and an Allard J2X then moving on to things like an XKE roadster, double bubble Fiat Abarth Zagato, street Hemi, Viper, Bugeye Sprite, etc. Then there would…

“Let it not be forgotten that leasing an electric Smart was basically free (9.90 Euros a month) for a while.”

“...I’m a drooling simpleton Yugo-owner...”

“You cannot write about coffee flavor without sounding like a pretentious ass...”

I don’t know what Fat Donald will do after he leaves the White House, but I do know that we will be able to tell when he is lying. His lips and/or his thumbs will be moving.

In 1976 I took delivery of a new Plymouth Volare (the single worst automobile ever made) and the manual shift pattern was 1-2-4-3. It turned out that half of the shift linkage was assembled upside down, according to the dealership that made the necessary repairs.