What’s the alternative? Holding your lane arbitrarily and playing police officer, while containing someone who clearly doesn’t care about the speed limit (and by extension, complying with at least that law) behind you?

Do you live in a slow state? In the desert southwest, the majority attempt to go the speed limit, and many seem to be perfectly capable of exceeding it into the upper 80mph if they want to. I mean, I’ve been passed by an 18 wheeler when I was doing 85mph.

All that slowing trucks down is going to do is instigate more road rage. What they need to do to reduce emissions from trucks by 25% is find ways to get 25% of the trucks off the road. Same goes for cars.

Meh. The 4c is cheaper, and it’s infinitely better because of this thing called character. It’s probably the best-sounding car you can buy for the money (or up there, it sounds fantastic). It’s also a raw and expressive driver’s car - it omits everything that doesn’t add value. Power steering is too bullshit for the…

Well, you can turn up the wick on any turbo car, and get stupid levels of fast out of it. And it will be glorious very, very briefly.

Gary was the governor of a state with very liberal attitudes toward everything about cars - early age to license, cheap to register, no inspections. He's at least not a total hater when it comes to vehicle ownership.

Looked up, and they're a 1 to 1 fit with no BS. I mean, not sure if there's a good reason to do it, but you could.

I’ve wondered for many years if it would be possible to fit Opel badges onto the Regal, because I likes me that six-speed stick Regal turbo, and it would be fun to rock Opel badges stateside.

Well, Trump’s recent treasonous statement gleefully asking for Russia to hack other Americans probably has done him in, aside from all of his other horrid racist and sexist bullshit. And even if he somehow were to win, he’d probably do something impeachable in the first 100 days anyway. I don’t think we’d have to deal…

Manual shift iterations of the Yaris, please. This kind of shitty driving and poor awareness seems to be enabled by the proliferation of the automatic.

People who do this or make this excuse should have their license revoked. There’s no reason for it, at all.

They totally do, and it makes no sense. Were people ever taught to drive an automatic shift car in that manner? It seems like an unsophisticated way to drive. I can only think of having used my left foot to brake when driving go-karts.

I want to preface this by saying that I’m in favor of lanesplitting. The ask of “managing space predictably” is just that, however. Driving is unpredictable by it’s nature, and does requires moving around in the bounds of a lane. What I always feel is lacking in the discussion of lanesplitting is the expectation for…

Absolute fucktardery. It’s a sure fire sign you’re dealing with a smug dipshit. I say this as someone who has an MBA and routinely is subjected to dealing with other people who think their MBA is a title. It’s not surprising to me that this crowd would be pro-Trump.

Did you notice how I said it’s not about stuff? I typically think of people like rapists and murderers, and those perpetrating mass fraud as being among those with the least value or purpose to society. People like lousy thieves are simply grouped in as part of a net cost to - and drag on - society.

For sure. Whenever I see these kinds of cars, I assume they’re a hit-and-run driver (maybe) and probably seriously under-insured, if at all (almost always). It was fun to experience being on the other side of it for a while. :)

This is also a very true statement. I had a coupe painted in bright blue that was always waxed and shiny. Said coupe was tagged in a big hit-and-run, and I decided to fix it myself. Driving it around for a few weeks with massive cosmetic body damage, shattered windshield, and blown airbag hanging from the dash…

“Look how much holier than thou I am for merging at a time I have arbitrarily decided is correct based on no logic whatsoever.”

Hey man, it’s “fair.”

A personal pleasure is seeing cars with Minnesota plates on the interstate in my state. Where traffic routinely is traveling at 90-100mph in the fast lane and maybe 80mph in the slow lane. The Minnesotans always look absolutely terrified by us.