“We had to add a $200 surcharge for towing equipment for your extra large pickup. You can come get your truck any time between 9am and 9:05am on alternate tuesdays and the fifth wednesday of every month. Storage is $100 per day for the first seven days, then $200 a day after that, plus a $499 processing fee on the…

That’s the corollary to “this job is only going to take me 45 minutes, an hour tops.”

A Jeep Wrangler would make a good drag racer because of low gearing and a torquey motor.

had the opposite problem with the wheels. When one breaks, those hammer-on end caps are damn near impossible to remove.

it’s a tie between a Lotus Elise and an 88 F-150

the steering wheel desk would have been really useful back in my days as a field insurance adjuster. My company car was my office, complete with printing station in the trunk, but using the computer was awful because my lap was my desk, and the front seat of a Fusion just gets pretty cramped with a giant panasonic…

I mean, if he joined at 20, that would only put him at 52, which is significantly younger than the retirement age, and really not that old when looking at people who are senior leaders in their respective fields.

I’ve got a 2016 Cayenne S right now, I’d like to add a convertible back to the garage, another Miata (something newer than the 2003 I just sold) or a Boxster would work well.

This is an admirality slideshow, you can tell by the black borders at the top and bottom, therefore it is invalid to be used upon my personage.

“Click here to learn more about living with identity theft!”

Where do I exchange my new-found jalopnik fame for valuable prizes?

We went to unlimited PTO this year. Which has its own pitfalls, no doubt, but it is nice that I don’t have to worry about catching the flu impacting my ability to go on vacation.

they always look backwards to me.

As a fun aside, when I was growing up, lots of my friends thought my dad’s MGB was some kind of classic Porsche because of the headlight lumps.

I’d accuse the 914 of just being a copy-paste of the British roadsters that were the rage of that era as well, but at least British roadsters were a good-looking template to work from.

The 924. It has every appearance of being a generic hatchback that everyone seemed to pump out in the late 70s/early 80s. Nothing about the looks sets it apart from its contemporaries at all.

it’s always the non-parents trying to tell me how I’m raising my kids wrong. Sheesh.

You’re right. I probably just peg it as 90s because I got my first car in the 90s (a 91 Honda Accord, albeit I got it in the late 90s) and it had them. Was not teal, though.

Anything in teal with automatic shoulder belts.

Please don’t conflate mental illness with people who are just idiots.