I often wonder how these cars sell in numbers to justify their existence. It seems to me that at those price points, the people with the means to buy them, meaning “older”, are looking at more “sophisticated” or understated cars.

I’m 36 and I feel like a boy racer in my Focus ST sometimes (but I’m secretly six years…

It’s my understanding that a car disintegrating during a collision is a good thing. Think about how race cars come apart. The car absorbs and transfers the impact energy around the occupants. Here, the Lamborghini is destroyed front to back, while the Buick is intact. The Buick transferred the collision energy to the…

I have a 2014 ST with the ST3 package, and I’ll definitely second your comment about the seats. I’m a smaller guy at about 5'7" and 140 pounds, and I love them. They fit me perfectly, but my buddy who’s 6'4" and 320 sits on them rather than in them.

I was going to take it on a road trip with him, but he flat out…

I did similar things when I was a teenager except I first got busted on my learner’s permit when I was 16 doing 78 MPH in a 45 zone. It was in my Porsche 944, which I thought was the fastest car in the world back then. The fastest I’ve ever gone on public roads was about 140 in my Corvette LT4 a few years later.

I was…

I used an S2000 to move to California from Ohio. With my stuff. And my dog. And a bass guitar. In the winter. As far as I know, an S2000 has never been used to move cross-country.

I think my skill at Tetris was the only thing that let me get enough stuff to survive into that car.

Thanks! I loved that car.

I had a 1915cc air-cooled VW flat four. It put out around 130 horsepower, which hauled that 1300 pound car around nicely.

Reliability was good as long as basic maintenance was done. Those VWs are pretty solid. I found I needed to change the fuel filter pretty frequently and blow out the…

I bought a factory-built Beck Spyder and daily drove it for four years. In Ohio. In the winter, too.

It had no radio, no heater, no A/C, lap belts only, etc. It’s about as basic as it gets. Finding one with a Speedster windshield and a top goes a long way to making it decently practical.

My mom had a 1989 Taurus wagon for years. I loved the rear facing seats in the “way back” since I could chill with a buddy out of earshot of my mom and talk about the girls in school. That is, I did love them until a pickup rear ended us. I always had the “He looks like he’s going to hit us, but he’ll stop” feeling in…

My Corvette should have been called a “lift back” since after the girl got done doing coke off the dash at 2:00AM, that’s what her dress looked like in the hotel parking lot.

Fun fact of the day: So do cruise ships!

When grandma kicks the bucket after a wild night of bingo and too many Pina Coladas, you’ve got to stuff the old bag somewhere until you can get to shore.

On the average, three people per week die on cruise ships worldwide.

This goes for selling connected cars, too. When I bought my car used (2014 Focus ST), I found a list of the prior owner’s contacts, his phone number, and a call history in the system.

He had programmed his home and work addresses into the on-board navigation system. He also didn’t bother to delete his search and…

Absolutely. Anyone who does something good first helps us all. Who was the first to figure out how to make bread? Who was the first person to make beer? Who was the first person to look at an oyster and think “I should eat that”?

I’m a little hungry and could use a drink right about now if that weren’t obvious.