Came here to say this. 

I had just learned to drive a manual and bought a car with a five speed. Not long after, I went to downshift from 5th to 3rd at around 50 mph... And hit 1st, wasting the engine in the process.

Supercharged LS in the spirit of Roadkill’s Draguar. 

Guardsman tires.

Years ago in the dark ages, I sold tires for a store your grandparents knew as Sears. I once answered the phone and the conversation with the guy went something like this: 

Shift your automatic into neutral when slowing down in inclement weather conditions. I’m not sure of the origin of this myth but I distinctly remember hearing it from an old-timer when I first started driving (in the mid-90s). Perhaps it’s related to rear-drive cars and early attempts at automatic transmission lockup…

My interest rate on my car loan is lower than my mortgage. That’s insane. 

I just bought a car through Carvana in September and was overall pleased with the process. I financed through them for simplicity, then refinanced immediately through my credit union (where my rate was 2.5% lower). Overall, would recommend. Because in-person dealers are garbage.

The exotic tailgates that flip out and become stairs. For the very few pickup buyers who actually use their truck to haul on a regular basis, they can probably get up into the bed when they need to. This is just added cost and complexity to an already violently overpriced vehicle. 

Um... The Miata, of course. 

Some still exist?

This is clearly anecdotal, but the 2007 Ford Focus SE hatchback we had was amazing. The only thing I did to it in the 10 years we owned it was basic maintenance (oil changes, wearable items). I think it had 135,000 miles when we sold it. 

Albeit hideous. 

Holy crap, it has cassette?!?

The Buick Encore. Every time I see one of these things on the road I just cringe at how ugly and pointless they are. It looks like someone took a regular SUV and just scrunched it up into a shorter, albeit just as tall, SUV.

I feel attacked. :)  

If nothing else, maybe we can all agree that it’s just... Hideous. It’s scrunched up and looks like a deranged roller skate. I judge the person driving whenever I see one because... Ew. 

It was all due to the jingle.

A company where I used to work would scrap any measurement tool that was dropped, so I began collecting them to donate to a local high school, but I held back a set of Mitutoyo digital calipers for myself. I checked them against gauge blocks and there was nothing wrong. The company’s policy was my (and the high…

Pretty sure it was a 5.7L V8, not a 5.4.