This, definitely this. Watching the ripple of brake lights resulting from one idiot always bums me out. Even in heavy traffic I do all I can to avoid using my brakes on the highway.

Look, person behind me who is usually in a minivan or SUV, I know you're excited to start going again, and this stoplight is the worst. I know you want to be as close to your destination as possible. But that doesn't mean you really have to be two inches off my bumper while we sit at this light, on a hill, with me…

The Red Sox will receive AAA pitcher Zach Stewart and pint-sized utility man Brent Lillibridge in the deal. And as you can see from the video, Mr. Lillibridge is pretty broken up about the whole thing.

Gumpert claims the Apollo R could pull off this trick while driving on the outside of the loops.

I'll bet Dave thought suggesting a completely disassembled Miata car-in-a-box kit would put me off. Wrong again! (As long as assembly instructions haven't been written in Japanese, translated to Swedish, and then translated to English, possibly with a few more steps in between. But hey, with enough pictures, I'll…

The Hornet, and not the Matador?

Is that old French policeman actually François Berléand? Boy, Luc Besson sure can pick inappropriate times to start viral advertising campaigns.

I was going to suggest the 1977 V8 Vantage, but by choosing that I have to say it's better than a Daytona, and I'm not sure I can. I'd have to be pretty lucky to ever get a chance to drive either of these, but I think I like the look of the Daytona just a bit more. Vantage drivers in the states probably have to deal…

Those with more considerable proportions may find it a bit unbalanced in the corners.

There are tons of North American boutique supercars that I'd love to see put through their paces, and they're all the sort of thing you'd never see on TGUK. Moslers, Saleens, the Hennessey Venom and the SSC, Rossion Q7, Mach7 Falcon, HTT Plethore (from our Canadian friends)- Top Gear Original Flavor introduced me to…

I like TGUSA and have been quick to defend it, partly because I know how many growing pains TG: Original Flavor had in the first few seasons. The first episode had advice on how to haggle with used car salesmen. The very first segment was a sensible road test of a French family hatchback (a van, actually, with a…

I'm currently going through some title issues with a motorcycle. In my case it's a 40 year old bike that hasn't been on the road in 25, that I was given for free. (By a guy who was given it as payment by another guy, who got it for removing a collapsed building, which the bike was in when the building collapsed. …

If you really hate a car, ask Adam Ferrara to drive it.

The single thing that most inspired people to seek out greener solutions, to develop alternative fuels, to improve efficiency, and reduce consumption: expensive gasoline.

Some people like driving in silence. I very rarely have any radio/music on in the car when I drive. I used to go from Chicago to southern Indiana or back in total silence- I could just make it on a full tank of gas, so I didn't have to stop at all. Time passes quickly on such journeys, and you can really…

It's impossible to fail emissions testing in Illinois. A friend of mine drives a Ford diesel van that's in bad shape for his work, and he's been dying to get them to fix it or replace it. Check engine light is permanently on, running on less than half its cylinders, fuel literally pours out the tailpipe, and it gets…

Yeah, that seems ridiculous. Especially when two expensive specialty courses made the list, but a free MSF course (or possibly not free but still cheap, depending on your area) that really illustrates a lot of the other things mentioned here (increasing awareness, assuming everyone else is trying to kill you, being…

Go to msf-usa.org, find a class, a take it. Good motorcycling requires you to think about things that you SHOULD think about while driving, but can get away with ignoring. On two wheels, that strategy doesn't work. And, if nothing else, maybe you'll start seeing bikers a little more readily. Plus, it's fun.

Now you just need to get with Lotus and ask them about dropping a Subaru EE20 diesel into an Elise. It wouldn't add much to the weight of the thing, would get great mileage in a car that only weighs about a ton, and would have just stupid amounts of torque. 150hp, 250 lb-ft, 2000 lbs? I'd buy one, especially if the…

In general, I agree, and I recommend to others to just have it done somewhere. But I like to do it myself- it's an excuse to get under my car and look around and it doesn't take much time, plus I get to inspect my outgoing oil and put in the new stuff that I want. I have yet to find an oil place that carries the…