With each of these stories that come out, I become ever more firmly convinced that I will never own a car manufactured after approximately 2012 for the rest of my life. Automakers are doing their level best to make sure that I simply don’t want one.

Nobody’s hacking my 2005 Accord.

Since so many of you have irrational attachments to Mehpars:

Nice, with the Landon Dickerson front bumper mod.

Can’t hear his name without thinking of this.

Rob, are you really going to sit there and tell me with a straight face that this was one of the five most interesting cars submitted this week?

Ouch.

If this doesn't look like heaps of fun, I'm afraid I just don't know what to tell you, son.

My dad’s Celebrity never led a hard life, and it’s still the only car I’ve ever catastrophically grenaded an engine in. That’s why it's not around anymore.

Because rear-drive performance cars were a nearly dead species. Pay attention. 

I have survived this situation by living in Florida.

DUNNN da-dun DAAAAAA, dun-dun DAAAA...

If if you really want a comparison that speaks volumes, look at a brand new truck next to one from even as recently as 15 years ago.

When trucks were TRUCKS, dammit. Back when this was a free country. NP.

+1 for Rain-X. Get their washer fluid. You’ll never go back. Also, it ends up applying the treatment much more evenly - not to mention regularly - that I could ever accomplish with a spray bottle and rag.

While I agree that the “angry Goliath beetle” thing is totally played out: dude, your rendering at the bottom of the article turned the new Escape into an AMC Matador. Hard nope.

Derek of Vice Grip Garage on YouTube (which you all better be watching, and I ain’t kiddin’ ya) has IMO the final word in “engine” vs. “motor”:

Honestly, I’m beginning to come around to the same idea with regard to the ludicrous gobs of horsepower available for sale today. I’m pretty far from convinced that, say, a 650hp Camaro ZL1 should be available for sale to any schmuck with the money, to be driven on public roads. As I am pushing fifty, the concept of…

“Shroud” as an adjective to describe the feeling, “hemiglute” as an adjective to describe the repair itself:

If you’re a country singer and you have the horns, you gotta have the sixguns and Winchester rifles too.