The folding windshield is the one feature of my Jeep that I truly don’t give a damn about. If they were to get rid of it, it wouldn’t bother me in the least.

The street on which I grew up in Indiana consistently flooded after rain of more than 5-6 inches, and I also had to park my car in the street more often than not (important because my driveway was at a 30-degree incline). One night, we had eight-plus inches of rainfall, and I woke up to a very wet interior in my 1993…

I grew up in South Bend, but neither of my parents are from there, nor am I Catholic. For my entire life until I moved away at 19, Irish football was a club that I couldn’t belong to. I still relish a Domer loss more than anything else throughout the course of my typical week.

The purists of any brand are usually unreasonable. Comparing a TJ to a JK, the JK has more power, more comfort, and is wider (a positive for most). I have a 2-door, and my dad just bought a 4-door. The back seat in the four door is more comfortable, and the length of the 4-door makes it a better towing vehicle.

Isn’t it incredible how one person can be wrong about so much on so many varying subjects?

It is really damn annoying when someone references something that happened with their team multiple generations ago as a reason for a current event or to assert dominance. Also see: Notre Dame fans.

I DD a stick, but I fully admit that it is a pain in the ass in stop and go traffic, and that driving stick is not for everybody. I recently moved to Massachusetts from New Mexico, and I try to avoid driving between four and six as much as possible.

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I would be curious to nee if the oil brand matters in a turbocharged engine, or in a luxury car, comparative to a naturally-aspirated one. I use full synthetic in my ‘11 Wrangler just because I change the oil myself, and the cost difference is negligible off the shelf.

I see nothing wrong with that. In five years, when my ‘11 needs replacing, I can easily find a mint example that has depreciated.

Last June, I was driving a rented 26-foot Uhaul truck that had a nasty habit of dying of total electrical failure. Unfortunately, the problem couldn’t be duplicated, and I was stuck with it. It died while going 60mph in the left lane at the Mass Pike/495 interchange at about four in the afternoon. Luckily, it…

Stalk. All else is blasphemy.

Don’t most people complain about their commute? Why is the commute of New Yorkers so special?

My dad bought a Four Winds 160 Freedom in 1989 (a small 16-foot boat), and towed it the hour or so home with his already-underpowered 1984 Dodge Caravan with the small four-cylinder and 5-speed stick (maybe 80hp). Getting it home was the easy part. Getting it up our 30 degree incline driveway was not. I’m pretty sure…

Agreed on the wind, but that stretch of I-10 sucks under optimal conditions.

I agree with you about Kansas. I am driving from New Mexico to Massachusetts in two weeks, and I am looking forward to it, with the exception of the first day of driving through Kansas.

-Dents in the doors.

Don’t forget Jeeps and vintage VW Beetles. It is impossible to be unhappy driving either one.

My dad’s biggest automotive regret was not buying his 1992 Honda Accord after the lease was up. He was thinking about it for my seventeen year old brother at the time, and my brother wouldn’t/ couldn’t drive a stick.

About fifteen years ago, my parents were dropping me off at college, two thousand miles away. The “Worst Timing Ever Award” goes to my mom for scheduling my wisdom teeth extraction appointment for the day before this journey was to begin. The surgery went fine and we set off the next morning for the first seven…