The hate for cars in Berkeley is palpable. I had two events to go to on Saturday, the first in SF and the later one in Berkeley. We drove to Berkeley, through its streets which are engineered to snarl traffic without regard to safety (side streets blocked off, no turn lanes, no protected left turns), with the…

I want mine with an LS9 and a couple turbochargers.

I don't understand the jab at the "weak-willed West Coast media." What are they supposed to have done? Should they have used enhanced interrogation techniques on Tesla employees? Stolen a prototype from a Palo Alto bar? It's not hard to understand why people around here are rooting for Musk and his company. Success…

There's no E in Concord and people who drive Escalades are more likely to live in Walnut Creek or Lafayette or Danville or San Ramon.

I think that people from the SF Bay Area consider everything south of them to be Southern California and people from LA/Orange County/San Diego consider everything north of them to be Northern California. Once a woman from Bakersfield told me she was from Northern California.

If it became necessary to deploy the parachute, how much control would the pilot have during the descent? What if the plane landed on a house or a car or a person?

If it hadn't been for the California electricity crisis (which was caused by utility company executives gaming the system to make exorbitant amounts of money for themselves) Gray Davis wouldn't have been recalled and I doubt Schwarzenegger would have been elected. Gray Davis didn't do enough to solve the crisis but…

As the article's author did you also write the headline? Because what you say in this comment and the article (there is a unique specimen) seems to be contrary to the hed (you can go pick one up for $15).

It's easy to point at seemingly ridiculous projects like this and say that this is what's wrong with California's government. But really this cost less than 1¢ per California resident. So if we didn't have this project we would have saved everyone less than a penny. But say there's 100 projects like this, and we…

Build an air cannon. Use it to shoot tennis balls at challengers who run through a course using large Nerf-like weapons to try to hit a bullseye suspended above your head.

Best brewery tour ever. About two hours total, 30-40 minutes to see the brewery, the rest of the time is spent hanging out in their taproom drinking all the free beer you want.

People have been saying that Bentley builds the world's fastest trucks for decades. They might as well embrace it. Bentley has always built big, heavy, ostentatious, gas-guzzling vehicles so a SUV seems right up their alley to me.

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There is probably more aftermarket support for the 4.6 now than when I had mine, but it seemed like you could do much more with the old pushrod 5.0 which would mean buying a '95 or earlier. My main point was that the '99 had much better heads than the '98 and there shouldn't be a big price difference between the two.

I weigh a lot. I need that extra power.

$4.41 for 91 octane in NorCal. Glad I only needed 9.5 gal.

As the previous owner of a '98 Mustang, I urge you to set your sights higher. Even a '99 has 40 more horsepower than the '98 due to better designed heads (265hp vs. 225). Really, I wouldn't settle for less than 300hp in a Mustang. And yes, I drive a car that only has 167hp but the Miata has a lot going for it that the…

I'm sorry about your friend. I hope he still enjoys driving.

I have an MX-5. It's a 2006, the model year when Mazda thought they could get away with dropping Miata from the name. People still call it a Miata, incorrectly, but I don't like to make a big deal about it. Calling it an MX-5 just confuses most people.

And I like convertibles…