I test drove a Civic Si recently and the very young salesman had me pull it out of the very tight corner it was in and then asked me to back it into a spot on the lot when we got back. Unusual because they usually just have you park it somewhere up front and they park it back later. It didn’t dawn on me until later…

If you think about it, at least in America, there is little opportunity to learn how to drive a manual. You have to know somebody that has one and is willing to let you learn on theirs. You can’t rent a car with three pedals anymore and the ones you can are high performance, expensive and not the best option for…

I learned on my dad’s Mazda B2200.  However, I also worked at a used car lot, so I got plenty of experience on different clutches and torque levels.  My boss had a ‘53 Ford Coupe with a built up engine and a three on a tree column shifter.  He let me move it around the lot when needed which was a bit nerve wracking. …

When I was a kid we went to a monster truck show and got there early. I remember watching them unload this off the truck and park it in their pit. There were two or three track-based minivans at that time if I remember correctly.

Wall Street is a cancer to modern business.

Apparently you pissed off all the people that tow bulldozers seven days a week.

I had a similar scenario. I had been shopping (online) for Ford Focus hatchbacks with a manual and knew the average price. I happened to check my local Ford dealer and they had “specials” that were scrolling across the screen, including a Focus hatchback manual for the best price I’d seen yet. I had to wait for that…

If I was that salesman, I would have done the same thing.  And I’m not in sales.  You don’t work for free, you can’t expect him to work for free either.

Maybe they’re trying to make one of those Jalopnik sales report articles about how Pontiac managed to sell a leftover 1998 Trans Sport in 2019 and somebody bought a new 2004 Oldsmobile Alero.

$40,000 is also too expensive.

And there it is in a nutshell.

What is this “outside of America” you’re referring to?  You mean like Space?

My wife literally put an Amazon Echo Dot in our house that listens to our conversations just so she can ask it what the weather is every once in a while. I showed her the articles of some of the shady shit these things have been caught doing and she simply doesn’t care.

I have to admit I scoffed at my new truck having a back up camera, but I’ve really gotten into it. I was never a slouch at reversing or parking (I worked at a used car lot and had to make sure all the cars were perfectly aligned in the rows,) but I can get much, much more accurate a lot faster using the camera. Just…

Toyota: Here is a cool, racing oriented sports car.

I drove home (a different track day with my own car) three hours with cooked brakes. The brake pads felt like they had the stopping power of cheddar cheese. Stop signs and stop lights were quite unnerving when you have your foot to the floor and you just kind of slowly come to a stop, hopefully before the limit line.

I rented a V6 Mustang from Hertz and did my first road course track day about a decade ago. Even though I had plenty of oval experience, no road experience so I had to be in the beginner group which required a “coach” ride with you. We were explicitly told that if a faster car came up behind you had to let them pass.

How long until the roads are clogged with CUV’s and somebody “lowers” one and everybody gasps at how cool the lowered CUV looks?

I’m the same way, I’m not brand loyal.  I choose the best option (that I can afford) in whatever category I shopping for at the time.  If Ford doesn’t offer what I want, I will gladly pass them by and go to who does offer it.  I’m not “settling” for an Escape because Ford won’t build a Focus ST anymore.

Apparently the guy asking for car suggestions wants a manual.