My wife needs a grocery-getter. That's how I'll couch it in my presentation. Lots of room. Luxurious seating. Great stereo. Made in America. Gorgeous to look at. It's not the outlandish spending, gentlemen. It's how you justify it to your spouse.

Yes, but the car that based that styling language was absolutely brilliant.

And I thought I was the only kid who did that! My dad bought a 78 Corvette after he and my mom separated. You could call it a midlife crisis, but he didn't change careers. We saw him on weekends and he didn't have to haul kids around every day, so why the hell NOT have a Corvette?

I have one. I was shopping for a used Audi S4 and I couldn't find one that wasn't ridden hard and put away wet. Saw the 05 TL at the Chicago Auto Show and was shocked at the MSRP. It was like someone made a goddamn mistake. I did my research, went to the dealer and made an offer.

I could not agree with you more. Back in 2005, I bought a new TL for my daily driver. Every year since then, the dealer I bought it from calls me on my birthday to ask if maybe I'd consider trading it in for something new. I haven't taken the call in the past three years. There's not a damn car in the Acura lineup…

I agree, but you never know what motivations people have and there's probably a reasonable explanation. Perhaps the '69 SS wasn't in good condition. Or they moved and didn't have the space.

Enough said.

I have friends who are personal trainers. I've also hired a few over the years and your assessment is right. Having a trainer who is too easy or hard on you is a waste of money - but when you find one who is mindful of your limits and encouraging, you will do much more with your workout than you ever will on your…

Look again. He's going just over 60mph, not 100. NZ uses kilometers, not miles. There are plenty of back roads without many intersections in America and this can easily happen here. That's why rural roads have signs notifying drivers of upcoming intersections. I've been on more than a few with a 50mph limit, so…

So you're saying that the finest expression of Porsche driving technology that was split in half in Walker's wreck was NOT going the speed limit? Why do I feel like Captain Renault? I'm shocked, SHOCKED that this Porsche was speeding.

I hear they're fun to drive, but like most other people, I find the looks far too polarizing. A reskinning with something less juvenile will help it sell. I'm convinced that Nissan sent all their talented stylists over to the Infiniti division and left all the pot smoking acid droppers for the rest of the lineup.

I'm a Chicagoan. I've lived in the Rockies, northern Appalachia and southern climates. I don't care if you're Ken Block. All wheel drive is useless if your tires can't get any grip. Unless you have a set of studded snows you can swap on your car, Atlanta is damn near impossible to navigate in freezing rain and…

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Nothing wrong with spending money on a car you want to keep using. Repairing is usually cheaper than buying a new car. Unless you're fixing the same thing over and over again.

My dad won a Lexus LS400 in a raffle. He kept it. $25,000 Use Tax. I hope this woman won a lot of after tax cash.

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I've had grifters come up to me asking for gas money no matter what the hell I'm driving. Usually when I'm at the gas station. At least they're smart enough to try it when I have my hand on the pump. One idiot and his group of friends tried to pull that on me at a rest stop in rural Ohio.

LifeNews reports that this area has seen five similar incidents in the past month, killing three and injuring four.

Sarah Palin is not an idiot. She's willfully ignorant. The attention people pay her only reinforces this. Why bother taking five minutes to read when you're going to collect your fee regardless?

I have, in my life, been a considerably thinner person and had a fat person sit next to me on a plane. I have also, more recently, been the fat person that makes other travelers' faces fall. Anecdotally, I can verify that being the fat person is almost indescribably worse.