I'm with you - two feet in when you spin is a cardinal rule, especially for noobs. To my eyes, however, the drivers in this video could have avoided spinning entirely by being less ham-footed (just made that up). While I'm up here on my soap box, I believe I saw several mid-apex engine-braking clutch dumps, which are…

I've seen a couple comments on the right track...hand position, countersteer, etc. But here's the biggie...if you're in a front engine, rear drive car, your first response at the first tingle of oversteer should NOT be to jump off the gas and stab the brakes.

The nail: you hit it on the head. Just to add fuel to the fire, buying used also means that most recall issues have been fixed (or at least they're known) and is a solid history of service bulletins for the vehicle in question.

1st gen Prius. Toyota didn't twig to the fact that Enviro-crusaders wouldn't want a hybrid that looks like every other shitty subcompact. 2nd gen addressed this with LOOK AT ME SAVING THE WORLD styling. Plus the 1st gen looked like a shoe.

First, plaudits: Stella is indeed shit, as evidenced by the fact that it occupies the same place in the European marketplace as Natty Ice does here.

I heard a great story once, I wish I could properly attribute it, but it goes something like this:

I've told tales of my hand-me-down, official-nineties-teal Aerostar previously here. We would corral wayward shopping carts with it, and I even got good enough to put them into the cart corral. It was even better after I ran into a huge brick mailbox, after which I tooled around town without a front driver's side…

Just to add my two cents, as a native of Blighty, "air con" remains a rare option in the U.K. When you consider a "hot" summer day would be anything over 60, and that temps in the 80s are treated as signs of the apocalypse, there's not much call for it.

Also came to post this. Smaller, better handling and more maneuverable than a minivan. Still has sliding doors, which are the tits for putting little tikes into car seats. I'm 6'4", and while I'd like a bit more legroom, if you crank the seat height downward, you gain a few more critical inches. I've driven ours on 12…

Incorrect. The answer is "any oval." Possible exception for Bristol.

Ever watch SPEED Channel at a time when racing isn't on? It's basically crap reality shows. And I mean real crap. Velocity, which is a channel on the TV, has a new workshop show called Fantomworks, and guess what? It's a car reality show that doesn't blow chunks.

Good call - missed that detail.

In the words of Fletcher Reed, "QUIT BREAKING THE LAW, ASSHOLE!"

As a Mazda5 (Mazda MPV) owner, I love that it p3wned the other minivans. Can haul shit and haul ass at the same time.

It came down to the fact that the intake and exhaust cycles occur in two chambers of each rotor simultaneously. I lack the engineering prowess of Mr. Coleman, so I'm at a loss to explain it any better.

I believe Dave Coleman - of Sport Compact Car - proved mathematically that a 13B actually displaces 2.6 liters. So, a 4-rotor would be 5.2.

There is a complete lack of connectivity between Chicago's CTA system (the "L") and the RTA Metra commuter rail system. If you fly into either major Chicago airport, you basically have to book a hotel right outside one of the two major train stations downtown. They all suck. All other hotels requiring dragging your…

As a former Charlottean, please, please let's learn something from the Hornets/Bobcats debacle. Let's not build a new stadium anyway 1o years from now for a terrible expansion team.

Don't remember how old I was, but I was riding my bike from the neighborhood pool back to my house. The chain started making a clicking sound, so I looked down as I kept pedaling. Rode right into the back of a parked Chevy Astro van. Broke my nose and pretty much bled all over creation. The best part was that this…