So will the hoped for increase in sales on the front end of this deal offset the increase in operating costs on the back end (when the expense of making repairs start to add up)? Maybe this shortens the turn-around window for Cerebus from 5 years to more like 3.

I've taught my 14-year-old daughter how to properly torque lug nuts, taken her to the Indy 500 a couple of times, and she's now convinced that she should use her math skills to become an automotive engineer...have I doomed her to a life surrounded by mouth-breathing geeks, or will the future be bright for her??!??

Not really a bumper sticker, but back in the late '80s when those yellow caution "Baby On Board" signs were suction-cupped to rear windows all over the country, I was driving on the north side of Indianapolis when a Mustang passed me with a "Babies Made On Board" sign in the rear window. It wouldn't be as funny now,…

When I was in high school in the early '80s, a friend's mom bought one of these as her daily driver (replacing an old Civic wagon). My friend and I took it to town one weekend to go cruising, but we didn't get the usual attention from the members of the opposite sex that we had grown accustomed to. After driving…

My neighbor had a habit of letting his dog run loose on our street, and invariably he'd crap in my yard. One day I got fed up and having noticed a particularly large deposit while mowing my grass, I sneaked out on a moonless night on our unlit street with a plastic baggy, scooped up the pile of excrement, and…

Years ago I was teaching a lab portion of an audio production class in the telecom dept. of a large university. I needed some albums to demonstrate cuing records (like I said, it was YEARS ago), so I went through my collection and picked what I thought would be the least likely to be stolen by college students -…

If you want to watch the unveiling live, check out [kotv.com] (Tulsa TV station). Per their website:

It's the Skoda AcCORD!!

How am I ever going to manage to keep driving my 2000 Impala until 2010/2011 when these cars and the RWD Impala bow? Or will I be impressed enough with the 2008 Malibu that I won't care?

Back in high school I was driving my parent's '78 Caprice Classic, and had driven the 18 miles to the "big city" to cruise Cherry Street with friends one Saturday night. I had a midnight curfew, and I don't remember exactly what I was doing, but I glanced down at my watch and noticed it was 10 minutes 'til midnight. …