Winter mode. Acura cars have a detent in their wiper transmission. It keeps the wipers closer to the defrost vents to prevent freezups. The older ones actually had an electric switch.

Okay, that's pretty godsdamned funny.

Wait until you need to get the crank pulley bolt out of that Honda. I have an Ingersoll-Rand 1/2 impact that was the most powerful one the tool truck sold. 1100 ft/lbs of axle-shearing twist. [insert Tim Allen grunt here] For the longest time, it was the strongest impact in my shops. Timing belt time comes and you…

Yeah, but wasn't the western world in the dark about it for a while? If I remember correctly, radiation detectors in Finland picked up the fallout. Then Mother Russia had to disclose what happened?

Same here. I was in kindergarten. I went every other day. So I was home when it happened. My mother was out of the room when it exploded. So I called her back in to ask her what I saw on the screen. She wouldn't answer me and turned the channel. I never figured it out until some time later.

Limited slip differential.

Good. Like most gingers, he was sucking the soul out through the nose.

Good. It’s funny. My other car is an Acura TL SH-AWD with a 6-speed manual. When you are taking off in a straight line, my Accord easily can best my TL. It is weird. That car is not fast, but it is plenty quick. She almost has too much power for the front wheels. It barely can keep the front tires from turning into…

Mine.

Good. I'll gladly watch LeBlanc, Harris, and Reid. It won't be the same as Jezza, Hamster, and Captain Slow, but it will still be highly entertaining.

They just had an active shooter exercise at Joint Base Cape Cod last week. I live here on the base. My wife was taking part in the drill. She told me there was a drill and to not freak out if I saw a shooter. This knowledge was handed out en masse here. Maybe others did not get the memo?

I used to be Major Wood over that car.

That damn thing looks like it is coming out of the Avengers Tower anyways in the promo. Does it come equipped with a baritone butler’s voice with a hint of smartass British accent as the Navcon UI? Or maybe a sassy Irish female? If those were options, I’ll take 2. Please.

Check out Layer Cake. Pre-Bond Daniel Craig, Sienna Miller, Colm Meaney, Ben Whishaw, Michael Gambon, and, of course, Tom Hardy. That film made me a Matthew Vaughn fan.

Nope.

Listen to that engine hunting. Wow.

Everything about this is so much win.

I have an idea where that air filter can go.

It’s not the unreliable cars so much. It’s the difficult to work on cars. The ones that an ordinarily simple job is made 75 times more difficult by crappy engineering.