Or worse: Electrical fault keeping the CEL off. Just ask my poor Protege — it wasn't until the car started idling really high that I wised up, bought a scan tool and found out that it was throwing multiple check codes.

I drive the Miata. :)

Teehee!

Speek fo yoself, squire.

I have to chime in and add one thing... female saleswomen are sadly a rare sight, but the few you do run into are good. The one both my spouse and I bought our cars from (Mazda MX-5 and RX-8 R3), was utterly charming, professional, knowledgeable and might I add, cunning. I do feel that I somewhat got taken for a ride…

850ci? Hell, you got my vote there. May I ask, what attracts you to the Polara? I have a terrible crush on 66-67 Chevy Nova II coupes, an obsession which my spouse doesn't understand at all. :P

Behold Comrade, ze magnificent British engineering.

Yup, not to mention that you usually have to remove them when the exhaust is hot (my manual recommended running the car for at least 15-20mins first) to get the exhaust metal expanded enough.

You're probably looking for these:

You could certainly Ford any glacier with that.

Excellent. First Senna and Love the Beast, and now Revenge. Netflix is awesome. :)

OK, the aviation nerd in me spots:

Ba-dum-ching. Nice.

When interviewed about the arrest, he stated that he kept his cool despite her incessant ragging on him, although having her sit for a period of time helped to cool her off a bit.

Damnit, now you have me playing with mine. It's addictive.

I experienced heated seats for the first time last winter (rented Cadillac SRX.) I couldn't stand them — even on the low setting, the heat made me really uncomfortable. It's like a built-in personal swamp-ass maker.

Something tells me that the edge of that garage door and your head have had many painful meetings.

I don't think the Furai was destroyed — about a million Mazda owners and various car lovers would condemn Mazda to death for that. Mazda isn't stupid — although it will never make production, it's too valuable as a PR tool to simply crush.

Ha! Thanks so much, Polar. :)

Hah! Appreciate the vote of honesty, Roberto.