Thanks, Ben! I enjoy seeing an article praising a person on this blog. I feel biographies I've see on Jalopnik (including the most stereotypical lamborghini driver) were just slinging mud. This article is a refreshing change!

Not sure there would be enough high-test gasoline along the route to actually finish the journey. Pack a good pair of boots.

I'm actually more worried about my suit jacket getting wrinkled. Can I get a coat hanger off the co-drivers seat? If not, then no, I wouldn't drive it to a job interview. :-P

LOL. Hilarious. And here I couldn't have named even one of their drugs even though I'm sure several are household brands.

Actually, I live in downtown Chicago and I've visited Indianapolis a number of times. My wife has friends there. It's quite nice. There are excellent restaurants in the downtown with fantastic cocktails. It's also home to offices of major banks, consulting companies, and a huge Eli Lilly campus. And I've only spent…

Hi Ric hard - we know you must have an awesome job because of all the fantastic (and horrible) cars you get to drive. But - has fame made your life better or worse?

Yup. That's what I'd say. Unfortunately, there's a million of those crap cars out there. :-(

I work in an industry that provides communications for government public safety agencies. There's an story about a customer "cheaping out" on their dispatch center and buying the cheapest possible computer monitors. The system experienced intermittent problems that prevented the dispatch center from operating…

My interpretation of "making the kessel run" in units of parsecs is that the hyperdrive engine in Star Wars spacecraft travel faster than light relative to normal space-time. That is, they're not actually going that fast. What the hyperdrive engine does is distort space-time in order to create a wormhole from one…

When I lived in California, I didn't even own a car. A motorcycle was the only thing I needed. Now that I live in Chicago - they just don't make sense. I would get at most 3 months a year of riding weather in the Summer (and another three months of Summer where it's raining and thunderstorming) and then 6 months of…

You'd be hard-pressed to not go for something mid-engined. Any takers for the Audi R8? I'm more of a Bimmer guy, but the R8 with AWD and a somewhat reasonable 6-figure price is probably a good bet for less-than-ideal roads.

I lived in a nice apartment complex in Arlington Heights, IL, a few years back and walked outside one morning to see the neighborhood Acura TL-S on milk crates. Same kind of story - lug nuts where there, but the wheels weren't. I felt bad for the guy - as I walked to my rented garage where my car was parked out of…

It isn't compared to the hit-and-runs and murder crimes we've been asked to solve on this site. There is a reason that there are different penalties for different crimes - some truly are worse than others.

I see a major flaw in this study - what about women on birth control? Also, I have to agree with salient1, they've got the reasons all wrong. Attraction isn't about having kids. And they're completely ignoring that women can be attracted to how a guy smells because the guy's immune system is complementary to hers…

Yeah...I'm not so sure that stealing gas is that bad of a crime. I'm going to lose interest in this thread really quickly.

I see lots of that on my commute around the Chicago area, but almost never by Bimmer drivers. Which is almost odd considering the high number of Bimmers in Chicago. The worst culprits are cab drivers. I swear, they are far and away the worst. Cab drivers will weave through traffic, hop on on-ramps to pass, and then…

So true. I drove a Prelude for years. That car was quick, but it still strained to do some things - like pass at highway speeds. Put your foot down in a 335i and it's over in a flash. No fuss, no drama, just up to speed, lane change and back to speed. Yeah, it's a little too easy sometimes. But then, I'm not the…

Ride a motorcycle.

I wish the judgement had been broader - so that Hyundai would have to stop copying the designs of other automakers cars. It would be nice to see something original.

Yup - that's exactly how it's done. I manage my money well and have had my eyes set on a BMW 335i for a couple years. Just got it - and she even prefers it over my old car. Expectation management FTW.