I average 24-25 around town in my C30 T5 on 91oct. Not exactly a Prius to be sure, but only about 2 mpg worse than I was getting in the Cooper S JCW that I had previously (which wanted 93oct).

Thank you for confirming my shaky memory. Could have sworn I'd seen KHL on ESPN3 before, and given that the KHL didn't exist until around 2008, the math didn't work for it to be the first on ESPN since 2004....

Don't think they'd have me.

That's the "race to the bottom" that so many corporations love these days when it comes to pay/compensation issues. Company A gets rid of a benefit, so Company B sees that as a green-light to do so as well, and then Company C does it too because "that's the direction the marketplace is going", and pretty soon every…

"If there is passion and integrity in the game, the money will follow."

+1

No, you need to grow up because you're being childishly literal about a piece of nomenclature that is so well understood, so widely accepted, and so far past "settled" that it staggers belief. You want to play with dictionary definitions? Fine. What does the term "stick shift" mean?

Oh grow up.

Lighten up, Francis... 99.7% of the English-speaking world understands that calling something a "stick" or "stick shift" means a manual transmission. I sincerely wish you good luck in convincing the 99.7% that they're all wrong and you're right.

I have no doubt I could spend hours compiling a list, weighing the pros and cons of various approaches (eg. one big ticket item, or a few medium ticket items, or a ton of small ticket items), seeing how many of the 1:18 cars I've got I could get in 1:1 size, fulfilling childhood "poster on the bedroom wall" dream car…

Possibly the best put together, best looking Fiero conversion I've seen. Which is a bit like being the skinniest kid at Fat Camp. CP.

These are my own personal "issues" I've run into, YMMV. Some of these are assumptions I've faced from non-gearheads, some are assumptions I've faced from other gearheads who figured that "true for them = true for me". When it comes to my status as a "car guy", don't assume:

Indeed, I thought Sbarro reserved their tasteless creations to just bad pizza in the food court at the mall....

Hmm. I'm over 5'9" and fit fine in my MGB with the top up. Go figure. And the GT has a higher roofline than the roadster, too. Unless one's proportions are unusually short-legged and long-trunked, headroom isn't an issue.

Well first off, what is being described here isn't simply a matter of scraping the fender on the garage door frame. If you damaged your van bad enough that it would be a hit on a carfax report, acted to avoid the carfax hit (and thus, in a sense, willfully obscured/withheld info from whomever you ended up selling it…

Indeed. I work in the procurement side of huge multinational, and doing what he did (masking true contract values by splitting the spend up across multiple budgets) is Business Controls Failure 101. It fundamentally violates the basic principals which are drilled into the brain of anyone in a position to control the…

Missed the last generation Ford Thunderbird. When that thing came out, the car mags were falling all over themselves to lavish praise on it, Motor Trend COTY, etc. Lots of buzz, dealers charging way the hell over sticker, all that jazz. Then people noticed the meh interior, meh performance, and the high price, and…

Update from a local (me): Dude is a farmer, got bagged last month for possession of marijuana and resisting. Apparently decided the best solution was to take his 15 ton tractor and go all "Bigfoot" at the sheriff's dept, took out five liveried cruisers, an unmarked cruiser, and a transport van. Also nudged the…

Because they have a deeply ingrained bullshit mythical notion of Colin Chapman as some sort of automotive saint whose venerated spirit is sullied by anything approaching practical business sense or profit. The elements of his character which aren't so saintly (his willingness to let his drivers be killed for the sake…

So as a graduate degree holder and mensa-eligible human, I assume you realize that an f-body with 88 hp and 132 lb-ft of torque to move it's 3000+ pound ass is indeed a piece of shit which carries with it all the negatives of Camaro/Firebird ownership (redneck stereotypes and such) but none of the positives (large…