Yeah, he really hammered that home when he whipped out the Ferrari box with the special edition La Ferrari Spyder key in it.

Also, the star-in-a-car bit was weird. Jesse seemed to be so unpretentious it made Gordon look like a complete knob.

The thing I loved about Clarkson, May, Hammond-Top Gear was the fact that they gave emotional, sincere descriptions of vehicles. When they liked a car, you could really tell; conversely, if they hated a car, they really let you know it. I’m watching episode 23-01 right now and despite reading your description, I’m…

Only if the boss is Michael Scott.

I think it’s because the university was spending money on something as ludicrous as a bunch of bullshit for an entitled entertainer.

This would be a nice opportunity for some good PR for a local BMW dealership or one in the regional area. If they could offer the guy a complete rebuild of the engine or a swap, that would be awesome. I know I’m living in La La Land for thinking this is a probability, but every once in a while when I see stories like…

The thing I’m amazed at is that you can get a 2004 year-model vehicle for $2200. In the U.S., any car 2004 or newer selling for that much money has probably 150,000+ miles and some sort of issues and/or a salvage title.

I’m in the market for a decent used car at the moment. If it wasn’t for the fact it needed a new paint job, I’d look into purchasing it. And I definitely would not want to repaint it with spray cans. I would even take it if it had a fading factory paint job over the crappy camo job. Plus I just re-read it carefully…

According to Wikipedia, in 1964 the 413 “Wedgehead” had either 360-390 HP and 495-530 torque (depending on the carburetor). I know that’s gross power and torque, but either way, that engine was a stump puller.

I do not understand the reasoning behind doing this. I can see the rationale if you are going to keep the car til the end of its useful life, but if you plan on selling it you just narrowed your potential market considerably.

But there’s a difference between hating on someone style or mannerisms because you’re just a bitter, salty asshole and not liking something because it’s just an egregious call for attention. I feel sorry for the people who actually dressed in that specific way before it became trendy because those who embraced it as a…

I think this is how the people in the 1960s felt when the older generations were lumping “normal” people in with the hippies. It’s not a new thing. Every generation gets generalized into a category, and usually that category is whatever the popular, prevailing stereotype of young people is.

Subaru and Priuses: The official cars of the young urban, liberal hipsters of Asheville, NC ( I literally Google image searched “Asheville, NC” and most pictures I clicked on of random street shots had a Subaru somewhere in the frame)

One of my roommates left after the semester ended at the end of April and didn’t wash his dishes nor did he empty the dish rack either. I always make it a point to wash my dishes immediately after I use them and then after a couple of hours, remove them from the dish rack and put them in my cabinets. I try to do this…

I feel ya on the dishes thing. When I moved in I bought a bunch of new, fairly nice cooking utensils, pots, pans, etc. My roommate had already been leasing the apartment for a year before I moved in and literally had NO plates, utensils, dish cleaning supplies or anything at all. He was constantly asking to use my…

Here goes my venting/rant:

These were awesome little buggers when they were new. Here’s a throwback episode of MotorWeek that shows how capable these hatches were.

The front end looks too much like a CR-V for me to like it. I’d take one of the older generation trucks over this one.

I hold that the T-100 is the most underrated of Toyota’s truck offerings, granted there’s only been a handful of truck models offered by Toyota over the years. I would kill for a 4-wheel drive, V6, 5-speed truck. They are just the right amount larger than a Tacoma to be useful and they are simply styled and have that…

I used to live outside of Tucson in Vail and I remember my dad warning me about that. He told me if I got his Expedition stuck trying to cross a flooded road he would take the $10,000 out of my ass in monthly installments of beatings. Not his direct words but something along those lines. I think its a great idea…