I admire your bracket racing skills, as well as your evil technique for turning competitors into angry bracket busters in the other lane.

Embassy Suites gives you free breakfast in the morning and free booze in the evening - if you don’t mind drinking the cheap stuff.

It’s amazing how many people get engineering degrees, but are completely incapable of practicing engineering or even understanding basic engineering principles.

At the same time, do not admit to doing anything wrong. E.g., if the cop asks you if you know why he or she pulled you over, you should say “no”.

I was heading to [tire store] to get new shoes mounted on my ‘02 Miata a few years back. Had my son riding shotgun, and I’d lit the rears up at every stop sign along the way, and may have done a couple of parking lot burnouts as well, you can’t prove it! Anyway, we’re making a left onto the mostly empty A1A about a…

Meanwhile, in Japan.

What prices are you looking at?! Adjusted for inflation, $18k is about $20,400. The base price of a current Colorado is $20,055. The Frontier is ancient, but it starts at $18,500. The Tacoma starts at $25k but is arguably an even better deal because it doesn’t depreciate so if you stretch your budget to afford it…

Has your car fully depreciated down to nothing? No? Then adding in the full purchase price to your cost over 5 years isn’t valid.

Are you not using ear plugs?

I won the lottery when I was in my early 20s. Not as much as you, high 5 figures. I was initially going to buy a new camaro or sti but decided to get a simple used civic for 8k and a used motorcycle. Put the rest of the money into property. Since then those properties have made me exponentially more than I had…

The problem is that you’re on track with a bunch of other people. The dirty little secret of track days is that lots of people there aren’t technically insured while on track.

Yep, that’s a roughly 70hp gap between the two cars.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and disagree. I don’t think the GT-R is a good value in any guise. This car has long since been caught and passed by competitors. This car was game changing when it was literally almost half as much as it is now and offered performance that few other cars could match for any price. Now, it’s…

Actually there are number of perfectly good reasons to lease:

Blanket advice like this is useless. Whether or not leasing a car makes sense for someone depends on many factors and should be determined on a case-by-case basis.

I’m going to make two nominations:

While it may seem that EV’s are not the raging success one would hope for let’s be honest here: MUCH has happened in a very short time period but EVs are still a very new phenomena. It is only just more recent that the range and the prices have become more practical but there is still a long way to go. Give it time.…

I realize this article is largely tongue in cheek, but the discussion could benefit from a breakdown of what contamination is, what radiation is, and the three things that will help minimize exposure: time, distance, and shielding. Radiation is what kills you, through several methods of cellular damage; this…

My first vehicle was a 78 chevy pickup with a 350. I put on Edlebrock headers with glasspacks off of an old 65 Ford, so they were basically street legal straight pipes. I even used the time honored trick of using a garden hose to send water into the glass-packs to shatter the muffler and send the waste back out of…

Aha! I’m not sure I’d found Jalopnik in 2012, but that explains it very succinctly. I consider myself duly educated - thank you!