About 25 years ago, I had a good-sized upper portion of an oak tree fall onto my car while driving down the street on a day with little wind. Nowhere to swerve with an oncoming car in the other lane, so all I could do was brake hard and I was able to contain the damage ahead of the passenger compartment. Creased the…

Don’t watch the video if you want to see what you think you’ll see. Woman riding on luggage is barely visible, but there’s some typical hard on who not only thinks we need to listen to his unnecessary narration, but who pauses the feed every time he opens his face to drag out a what should be a quick video to almost 7…

They just went/are still going through this with MA State Police. To risk throwing away a highly secure 6-figure job with great benefits and a pension that an average IQ person can do with less qualifications than a lot of (often more societally beneficial, more difficult, and thankless) jobs that barely pay a livable…

I think I was behind a Model Y that had this problem last week. It’s not too uncommon to be behind a tap dancer, but this dickmonkey was practically break-checking down 10-15 mph at a time seemingly several times a mile even though I was far enough behind him to barely need to lift to avoid a collision, so it wasn’t…

While some of those issues should have been pretty damn obvious before purchase, it is unacceptable for a 2-year-old car to have ANY quality issues beyond maybe some initial build problem that would be picked up shortly after purchase, especially one they’d been building for a while even if he did 50k/year and that’s…

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Bought my first car—a 240Z— for $750 from landscaping jobs when I was 15. It was rusted to shit (of course), but looked cool. It’s replacement that could pass inspection—’84 Subaru wagon in good shape needing nothing—was $500 or just under $1k in today’s money.

Last September, my Focus ST developed a bit of a cracked…

And liberal gun-owners, too.

Bunch of guys with plenty of money to waste on specialized toys, the fuel, the trip, and the repairs all hanging out drinking and they’re thinking and chanting about Biden? Yeah, it sound like they’re really being hurt by his policies! No, but, I’m sure it’s that they’re upset about the unconscionable abandonment of…

Relaxing NOx in the enlarging shadow of electric vehicles might make a lot of sense in that it effectively limits how lean an engine can run, so relaxing that would allow remaining gasoline vehicles to use less fuel.

I’m not a people person, but even I know you don’t launch right into an attack if you want something from someone as they’re liable to respond in kind out of spite (justified or not). Doing this to a cop with their notoriously often weak character and ability to arrest—or worse—over whatever bullshit they feel like is…

I don’t think those seats will take it. They look pretty dried out, so even a blanket over them will likely tear them apart. That’s what storage and replicas are for.

Get replica seats made for driving and store the originals.

When they weren’t easy to remove, I used to “fix” the heat shields on the old Subarus with stainless hose clamps. Get the real long ones or put several together and crank them around the offender. I even held a 270k mile muffler together for probably the last 50k that way.

Yeah, what’s that about going to war with the army you have, not the army you want? Same with selling this shit to the public. I honestly can’t figure out how some people manage to feed themselves and we expect them to understand the various degrees of self driving? Not only that, but the requirement of constant vigila…

I read this as they didn’t make a good car for the money.

My sister has an Ascent and I don’t find the CVT any worse to drive than a regular auto—maybe even better since it’s not always hunting for gears—but for me, I hate CVTs because a lot of them struggle to make it 100k, never mind the 200k or so a clutch alone in a manual would get me.

I just watched a video where a lightly modded 2018 STI could barely stay ahead of a new BRZ in a drag race, never mind the WRX. I don’t know where you are, but WRX insurance is very high in MA, then there’s the aesthetics and being a magnet for scumbags.

2006 Mazda3. Rusted worse than an ‘80’s Subaru and felt more fragile over bumps as if the front subframe was mounted using old condoms as bushings. I guess it was a little better to drive than a Corolla, though worse than that’80’s Subaru, so I’d say it wasn’t quite the driver’s car the press made it out to be.

So fucking stupid. Tailgating is not only unsafe and blah, blah, blah, but it’s very likely to just piss off the person in front so they block the tailgater and maybe it escalates as it did here. Keep a respectable distance and either wait for a reasonable opening or—surprisingly!—they might notice and move into the…