That would not be weird, if not for the well-deserved reputation of the mkiv Golf for being total crap. I gambled - I had friends who’d owned mkiv’s going, “stay away - they’re terrible and impossible to maintain,” and they were probably right to think that. I thought, “I just finished grad school, I’ve got a great…

My ‘09 Rabbit (called the Golf in the civilized world) has ~115K on it and it still does everything it’s ever done as well as it’s ever done it. I’ve had to do rear hubs and control arm bushings, everything else has been typical wear items or upgrades. It’s the first car I ever bought new, and still the best car I’ve…

Not sure about the springs. The reason I do that is so that they don’t get buried under snow and/or frozen to the windshield. With them up like that, you run your fingers down the blade, dislodging any ice that has accumulated there, flop them back down and you’re done.

We had a few springs you could drink from in the town I grew up in. They were unmarked, and I’d be scared to death to be the first person to try them, but they’ve been known to locals since before my grandparents’ time. People would fill jugs there because the water tasted so much better than the egg water they’d get…

Have we reached the “wake up with fleas” part yet? I’m excited for that part.

You can, of course, but don’t lose sight of the fact that the tires are the important part. Our CX-9 is basically worthless in snow on its stock all-seasons when compared to my Rabbit on snows. Mount the studded snows on it, and suddenly it’s marginally better than the Rabbit when accelerating or where additional…

This totally makes sense for small hatchbacks, but what about mid-size sedans? I love my 2009 Rabbit S, but I’ve had a bias against fwd in anything larger, or with a trunk, ever since briefly owning a 2000 Impala. What’s really available in that sort of package that’s any fun? I’ll be interested to see if Mazda will…

I had a feeling that inventories of Golf R’s are being artificially suppressed. I’ve been looking for a CPO’d one with the manual and DCC for the better part of two years now. On the rare occasion that one comes up in my area, it basically costs the same as a new one. I can’t even find a new one to test drive (what,…

I, too, gleefully cackled with glee.

Well, in its defense, it’s not like Infinity has done a whole heck of a lot better since. Have they even made anything not hampered by a transversely-mounted engine or lack of an available manual transmission since the G35? For a brand that was supposed to be Nissan’s answer to Mercedes, Audi and BMW, the…

Those are beautiful. But really, if you choose the right summer tires, anything this side of a racing seat is “of the brace-against-the-door-while-cornering variety”

I’ve got Android Auto in my car and I love it. For one thing, voice commands actually work so I use them. That’s a new one on me - maybe OEMs have improved in this regard but I’ve never seen one that worked. This is, in my opinion, the only way to use your phone’s functions safely while driving. Also, Google Maps is…

How high was Chris Hogan for this game? His eyeballs looked like he bought them on a joke shop.

I was thinking more like the love child of a Subaru SVX and a Fiat X1/9...

Safety tip: don’t make fun of the blue anodized shift knob and the stupid farty coffee can until you’ve been safely dropped off.

I think it would also be useful to compile a list of RNC and Trump dodnors so we can figure out who to boycott.

Heaven forbid? I’d love to see it.

I was just thinking he’d make a good ventriloquist dummy if you gave him a monocle and a tux.

In the battle of yourself against the world, you should root for the world. Or something like that.

“Given everything we know about Trump, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that an impulsive, insecure, and emotionally stunted narcissist would be livid that people think more highly of his supposed number two”