My daily driver runs a junkyard pullout LS motor with a 2.3 liter Magnuson supercharger. To keep the a/c compressor from lunching itself we rigged an rpm-sensing shift-light to trip the electric clutch and disengage the compressor above 4000 rpm.  So, if I’m in a big hurry, yes, but the car does it for me.

Some of it is purely financial. I live in Santa Rosa, CA, a city of almost 200,000 people about 90 minutes north of San Francisco, and today’s paper pegged the cost-per-unit of building affordable housing at $500,000. Throw in zoning laws and city planning that favor single-family homes and it gets really unprofitable…

It’s the most cost-effective way for former Mustang owners to get back into the Cars & Coffee & Mass Casualty game!

Until penalties include both financial consequences that significantly hurt shareholders AND penal consequences that see corporate officers and executives serving actual and substantial prison sentences, nothing will change.

I’m a one-man econ wrecking machine!

Subscriptions are fine for consumables like magazines and streaming services, but for features of durable goods?

It’s not a WILD exaggeration, but it’s more than “a bit” of an exaggeration. It scarcely constitutes aggression, either.

There is nothing tackier than Germanic tackiness.

They’re just plain terrifying. I was working in an ice cream factory when someone’s leg was torn off by machinery; it was utterly horrific.

Mopeds.

Oh, I must have missed the bit where the four cops were all that asshat driver’s PASSENGERS. If you’re going to nitpick, you’ll first need to be accurate.

Looks like a two-speed.

Muffler cement?

I like you, and you would probably like my 1979 Olds Delta 88 Royale Brougham coupé with coil-overs and a supercharged 370-inch LS.

I put 140,000 miles on a two-door 2003 Ford Focus ZX-3 with the 2.3 liter PZEV and a 5-speed stick. Averaged about 32 mpg lifetime; the only thing that broke was the driver-side window crank. Sold it to a friend who put another 60,000 miles on it without any problems. It was actually more successful as a cheap car…

But those metal lids are easily detected by metal detectors, unlike hand-thrown ceramic pots sealed with tar, which means that your new-car funds are more likely to be stolen by weirdos.

Cool your jets, crankypants - there weren’t any passengers.

Turns out Motorolas don’t beat, mace, shoot, and Taze people nearly as well as roided-up former high-school bullies.

And the $2100 savings would buy two or three sets of Toyo Proxes R888Rs in a 205/55R16, which should stick like really needy, codependent glue.

Seriously - this is THE most important question!