The Kizashi was a middling car in retrospect, but what car isnt? They were shockingly good for their time. Theres a lot of “weird” cars that are great too.

The Ford Flex and C-Max shocked me with how good they were when I started working at a Ford dealer in 2013. There really isnt a better do it all vehicle than the…

Id imagine its rather difficult for a company of Mazdas size to compete for the batteries needed to make these vehicles have competitive range while remaining in any way affordable. Gonna need that generational leap for batteries to happen soon so companies like Mazda can survive. 

Having had multiple of this generation of Grand Cherokee in my family since they came out (moms side came from Colorado, they were all the rage) and getting one of them passed down to me over a decade ago, no. No no no no no no no with the fire of a thousand suns no. ND. 

Theyre entirely necessary. Ones palms would be incredibly sweaty while trying to do what he did in the vehicle he did. 

Well played, sir. 

Yeah, the yellow light thing still makes me think it was some sort of road janitor with no authority to actually ban me. But he was wearing a vest and armed, so I dont know why a road janitor was armed. 

2007, my first weekend back after a year and a half deployed to Afghanistan, some friends and I headed up to Kingston from Ft Drum to partake of their gentleman’s clubs. After a rather raucous night we headed back, 4 of us in our DDs rental Monte Carlo. While crossing the bridge back to the states, I had my hand out…

It is really quite simple: people like two doors but dont buy them, and people like the handling a low center of gravity gives you but dont buy it. Customers are the worst people on the planet, no matter the industry. 

Not yet. Gotta keep it smooth at first. Then in a couple years, bigass wing and crank the air intakes up to 11. 

Definite NP. It is certainly no canyon carver, but 80,000 miles on that engine is just breaking it in. It can be a wonderful lazy cruiser. But if you want to pep it up a bit, you most certainly can. A drop top combined with a tasteful aftermarket exhaust gives you so much of that sweet sweet T5 music. Throw an ecu…

Lawdy, I cant even count the times Ive had to have that exact same “Dont buy that car because youll have given up on life” conversation. I tell people they will drive that car every day, just like they eat every day. Why someone would want to eat plain oatmeal for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day is…

I feel like a couple decades from now theres gonna be at least one old person who makes that big enough to use as a model train village. 

Legitimately one of the most beautiful and timeless cars of the last 30 years in hard top form. I wish I could have one, but the center console strut tries to saw my leg off.  The convertible top kind of kills the soul of the car losing its roof line and adding the extra weight and chassis flex, so I wouldnt buy this…

It certainly is an idiotic rule, but Ive seen first hand how not respecting rules like that opens the floodgates to the feckless death of a union. Fuck the CWA by the way. 

If it actually was invisible, it wouldve been a lot better. Unfortunately, it was hideously ugly and stuck out like a sore thumb. At least while driving it like an asshole, youd be too busy to notice that the nav screen was supplied by Toyota engineers going dumpster diving for them after Pontiac shut down.  

It is no coincidence. Modern vehicles and WW2 tanks were really developed with many of the same purposes and constraints in mind. Tanks were designed to get 2-6 people from point A to point B safely, while still needing to fit on roads, bridges, railway cars, and train tunnels and such. Thats exactly what modern cars…

Those statues guarding the river couldnt even stop water from catching on fire. 

You sound like an NRA lobbyist. 

My brothers and I have been using the same internet names since the 90s. My youngest brother goes by kaizer(name), and has a kaizer custom plate. He also drove a 2010 Passat for a long time, and had a big Bundesadler sticker on the rear glass. He had to spend a lot of time explaining to people that its not anything to…