If you’re a licensed mattress repairman whom I’ve called to diagnose an intermittent problem with my box spring, then sure, knock yourself out.

Crashing cars in the Taco Bell drive through?

No kidding. Back when I owned a less-reliable car, I practically had to beg the techs to drive my car enough to reproduce whatever intermittent problem I was reporting that week. I wanted them to drive it to lunch, even take it home, if that’s what it took.

(Shrug) You can be the best at building missiles and win against everything else, even if you’re flying a Piper Cub.

In my experience, yes. I bought an admittedly-expensive car a couple of years ago by writing a check for it. The dealer insisted on running a credit check for a “backup financing” application, to be activated in case the check bounced.

Why not just print off a spreadsheet that charts the payment versus a wide range of FICO scores, based on the interest rates currently offered? Then tell the customer, “If you’d like me to run a report, I can tell you exactly which of these figures will apply to you.”

Stupid bright with lots of spill

Stupid bright with lots of spill

Speaking from experience, there’s no reason to rent an exotic for a PCH trip. You are just going to spend the entire day trapped behind one slowpoke or another. It will only be more frustrating if you plunk down the big bucks to rent some fancy German or Italian iron. Just take the POS Sebring or whatever other…

It does seem like a paradox, and no, I don’t know how to reconcile it with relativistic terminology. Either there’s an invisible conceptual wall that remains intact, and each driver experiences an independent 50 MPH collision with it, or there’s no wall, just as in the real world, and each driver takes only 50 MPH…

Just poking a bit of fun at your unfortunate use of present tense. :-P

The acoustical losses would be significant, but they’re on the wrong side of the equation — the problem is that there isn’t enough energy to allow each driver to experience their own 100 MPH collision force, not that there is too much.

You should probably put down your iPhone and concentrate on the road, then...

Ironically, those two-lane roads are where virtually all of the deaths happen. Speed limits and other traffic laws that encourage people to get off the Interstate and try their luck on undivided highways are, themselves, deadly.

Physics doesn’t work that way.

The ones driving around in Washington with Oregon plates, yes.

There’s some precedent to these shenanigans: the Jerrari.

Exactly. C4s somehow look leaner, more tastefully designed, and less overwrought as time progresses. C7s, on the other hand, are certainly not going to look any less ridiculous 20 years from now.

You seem to have a DNS issue, might want to talk to your ISP’s tech support about it. Tell them that apparently the IP address for consumerreports.com is showing up as 104.156.85.64, which is actually assigned to jalopnik.com.

Try a Porsche.

I’ll bet you still have his old high-school art class trophies in the garage, too, huh, Mom?