I do remember the marketing build up before the reveal. Just tons of vague commercials with, “It’s coming.” I want to say the official release was during the Super Bowl. But I also remember when it was revealed that it was just this little economy car from Dodge and a lot of people were disappointed.

I’m always suspicious of someone who buys a “project,” spends a bunch of money fixing it and then tries to dump it a year later (probably for a loss.) Why? Did you find something even scarier that needs to be fixed and you’re just cutting your losses? Did you realize you bought a money pit?

Straight up God’s country up there. Reno has a bad rep, but it really has improved a lot and the surrounding area is awesome. I’ve got about 17 years before I retire, but I’ve already bought a lot just outside of Virginia City and I day dream about when we’ll live there.  Try to visit the area at least twice a year…

Maybe they can start using curb weight for their numbers.  That just seems to keep going up forever.

With girlies on standby waiting just to say hi.

Or like when Dodge just started naming their trim levels. “Do you want it in Express, Uptown, Mainstreet, Heat or Rush?” Uh, what?

I have been driving for 22 years and have been in a collision three times. All three times I was rearended while stopped. How exactly could I have driven more defensively sitting at a stop light?

The first few times I watched the impact, I thought the windshield didn’t even break in the 2015, but then I saw it spiderwebbed slightly where the door frame buckled a little. Amazing.

This reminds me of this one I think Red Bull did.

Ah, I’m in Santa Rosa and figured you were somewhere close with the “400 miles north of Los Angeles.”

When I was about 5 years old, I was absolutely in love with the Camaro IROC-Z and my dad was a mechanic at our local Chevy dealer. The manager was getting ready to put in an order for a new Camaro and let me pick some of the options. I was 5, so I pretty much just picked “red paint.” When it showed up, the manager…

Do you live in Novato?

I shuttered reading the word “Corsica.” I thought I had sufficiently blocked those from my memory.

Ha!  I had an ‘85 Cavalier (2.8 liter V6... ladies) with a sunroof that leaked like a sieve.  When that died, I got a ‘95 Suzuki Swift 3-door with a manual.  It was the hot rod version as it came with the four cylinder and the Metros came with three cylinders.

I walked onto my local Chevy lot to look at something (I can’t remember what now) and saw they had added markup tags on every single car on the lot, including Sparks and Malibus. I scoffed out loud, walked away and have never been back. The impression I got was that they were greedy and would have squeezed me for…

When driving in San Francisco, I use the pedestrian crosswalk countdown to know how long I have when approaching an intersection before the light is going to change. Being a larger city, the crosswalk signs automatically cycle regardless if someone is there to push the button.  If I’m still too far away and can see…

A lot of police agencies have learned that running social media accounts “humanizes” the police in the public’s eye and helps their image. They usually aren’t portrayed well in the media, so then everybody thinks they’re militant, robotic assholes. This is their way of showing, “Hey, this is some of the wacky stuff we…

I was looking at 2010 models and couldn’t believe how outdated and antiquated they felt.  It’s amazing how quickly we’ve adapted to the higher technology and amount of features even “economy” cars come with as standard these days.

Misery loves company.

In high school I detailed cars at a small used car lot. I know first hand how the majority of vehicles are treated and not maintained. Most people are lazy pigs and live disgusting lives in their vehicles. For me, buying a new car is an expense I’m willing to incur to not be subjected to crusty boogers on the shifter,…