5th gear: 

I wonder if throwing cake at someone would be charged as “Assault with a Tasty Weapon”?

Should have said 10 “sleeping policemen”, an endearing(?) term for speed bumps.

You can see FRED in action in with what is by far the jauntiest free music ever to grace a 1:30 of a traffic light in action

The Honda Fit. Like most modern Hondas, car people didn’t fully appreciate them when they were available, but now that most Golden Era Hondas are gone they’re starting to finally be noticed as the reincarnation of the EF, EG, and EK Civic hatch. Pic above is mine - it was the first new car I ever bought and I plan on…

Wait for it!

F1: “You can’t have a slot as you don’t have your own engine manufacturer”
Andretti: “We have GM, and they’ve said they’ll become an engine manufacturer if we get a slot”
F1: “So you’re admitting you don’t have your own engine manufacturer? DENIED!”

So it has different drive mode settings. One of those settings is full EV mode where, if the battery is sufficiently charged, it’ll function as an EV. When that battery runs out, its back to hybrid mode.

I6 Miata confirmed.

Real world range and fuel economy

W.C. Fields warned us.

That cars can run on water, but the government doesn’t want you to know about it.  Oh, and the fuel shark really works.

It would be funnier if it was a Volkswagen Atlas.

If this story was satire, you couldn’t make up better names than “Sally Goodsir” and “WJ Frecklington.”

This could be an offbeat rural comedy — directed by the Cone Brothers.

“I feel the same with the Honda Fit - you’ll see forum posts regularly of people lamenting that they have no idea what car they’ll replace theirs with”

Hey that’s totally fair, everyone has the right to their incorrect opinions!

For bikes, especially mountain bikes, roof racks suck. Bugger to load (especially if you’re dealing with more than two, cause then you’re reaching way over), too much weight up high, and huge aero penalty. Hitch racks, on the other hand, work great - less distortion on handling, easier to load/unload, less MPG hit.

We bought a brand new Toyota in 2021, which included Toyota Remote Connect free for 1 year. I am glad I didn’t pay for it. In my 12+ years of owning a smart phone, Remote Connect was easily one of the worst smartphone apps I have ever encountered. It was inconsistent, it wasn’t easy to add other drivers, it wasn’t…

Well, he has a Golf already, so why not a Sportwagon? Although I’d just get the Alltrack for the AWD and slight lift for potholes and such. Bikes will fit in the back, or you can rack it and carry lots of gear

This is ultimately why they'll all kill Android auto and Apple carplay to lock you into their shitty ecosystem