Back in the late ‘70s or early ‘80s, I discovered (thanks to my Aunt’s inability to walk away from a dare) that sometimes it’s not the jump across the creek that gets you but rather the jump back.

I had an ‘84 Tempo in the early 1990s. It had belonged to my step-father who had put at least 100K miles on it in Massachusetts and Connecticut winters, leaving it more rust than Ford by the time I got it. But it still ran, and the 4-speed manual worked fine. I put about 25K-30K miles on it in the couple of years I…

Ermagerd!

I hope they just go “Not Ugly” for the next generation.

And over four tons if I’m the passenger.

Just don’t submerge your vehicle and everything will be fine.

I know because I experience it every day. Having the manual that tells you when it thinks you’re supposed to shift shows me that it makes bad decisions some times. Sure, once we hit the hill I know is coming, the transmission will downshift after I’ve necessarily increased the input to the gas pedal, but doing it that…

My current car lease isn’t up for another year, but the G70 is on my list of cars to check out (new) when I’m in the market again.

I don’t expect to be able to shift faster than a modern automatic, but I can anticipate better because I have eyes and know what’s coming which means that when I am driving, I can more quickly be in the gear I need to be in when certain situations arise (which sometimes includes not shifting).

I like the NSX in the looks department, and I’m sure I’d be more than satisfied driving one, but even at $140,000, I still don’t think the NSX would be my first choice.

I remember my wife wanting to buy a used car, and she went to one of those Hertz Car Sales places over by Love Field. Her credit was not perfect, but it was around 625 or so at the time. She got her mother with the 700+ FICO to co-sign, and they still came back with a rate close to 15% (and this was in 2014). She…

It was dumb to have phrased it that way in the past because “proved reserves” have never been “all the oil we know about” but rather “all the oil we think we can get using current technology and cost structures. When the price rises or when new technology comes along, reserves that we know or suspect were there…

I knew it went back a while. I don’t remember when I first saw one, but it had to be about 40 years ago. But today was the first one I saw with stick figures added (which has itself probably being going on for a long time, too).

My go-to with the kids when it comes to a question I don’t want to answer is to make something up. For a long time, I figured they were smart enough to understand that I was joking, but it has since come out that my older daughter believed a whole bunch of nonsense I told her when she was younger.

I mean, if I’m dating someone, I prefer that they have skin over the alternative.

I saw a BMW with a similar “Gas, Grass, or Ass” sticker, but it left out the ‘grass’ and added the ever-classy pony-tailed stick figure (with boobs) getting plowed from behind while she leans on what would be an extremely large BMW logo if the sticker were to scale.

Punitive damages are capped in Texas. There were no punitive damages awarded in this case (or even asked for by the plaintiffs). The case was decided in October of 2017. The wreck itself was in 2013.

He should buy this and see how the HOA feels about its paint job:

For a while, my Dad collected antique cars, and one of the cars he had was a Studebaker Hawk. Apparently, on this particular car, you needed to pump the brakes a few times before you got moving to build up a vacuum that allowed the brakes to work. If you failed to do this, you had no brakes.

I assume that at some point, BMW will realize that they can charge a monthly or annual fee for driver access to the various settings.