Ok, now I know how my neighbor now has a new Lambo Uris sitting in his driveway.  I live in a nice neighborhood, but it is 5-series and GLS nice, not Bentley and Lambo nice.

I have driven thousands of miles in Florida throughout the years and I can only guess that when a Floridian turns 16, they are handed a pistol and the keys to a pickup truck or midsize domestic SUV and are told to have some fun.

I am 100% on board with this as someone who in the near future will be in a position to begin adding more cars to my collection. I look at all the new Ferraris, Lambos, and whatnot on the market but would much rather find a nice 3.0 CSi to restore or restomod. Driving was nice during the pandemic, when I could let my…

You really hit the nail on the head with your statement about them both having the same daddy issue.

I have done this twice - once to move myself and once to pickup a roll of carpet from the shipping yard to get it to a client’s house.  I hope to never do it again.

I have been admiring German driver education, well since I started driving lessons nearly 30 years ago. Even back then I recall that it took 2 years of real training (and not some basic class, bullshit test, and a learner’s permit period) to earn a license. Having driven in Germany and many other European countries…

Yeah, it blows my mind.  Even full size pickups and SUVs should require advanced licensing but apparently the country is more worried about kids drinking Bud Light and becoming Trans.

Can we all get on the same page that drivers should have some large truck training before being allowed to rent a full-size box truck? These things take significantly more effort, attention, and anticipation to drive than passenger vehicles and it blows my mind that some random average (moron) driver can hop from…

I say this as a parent but I get a real sense of entitlement from other parents out there who act like they can do whatever they want just because they are parents. It rears its ugly face in school pickup and dropoff lines. When I used to do preschool dropoffs it blew my mind how many parents will do inconsiderate…

The early 70's charger was so bad my dad gave up American cars altogether and shifted to a Celica and then Supra when the Mk1 came out. The Supra was great until I came along and he soon realized how shitty it is to get a car seat into the rear of a tiny coupe.

Aside from rental cars, I haven’t ever owned a Mopar/Stellantis vehicle and aside from a 69 Roadrunner and early 70's Charger owned by my dad, we haven’t even had one in the extended family since then.  And there is a reason for that!!!

The Mirage certainly punches above its weight and is great at its intended purpose. I recall my parents, who are not small people, fitting in the back of a purple Mirage Uber after leaving a birthday party many years ago.

I also scratch my head at how crappy the body panels look on a $100K car. The waves and blemishes even show through most vinyl wraps that people add in an attempt to make their truck not look like a 30 year old vehicle and out of the dozens I have seen to date, only one with a matte blue wrap was able to hide the…

Thank you for the clarification. EVs tend to be much heavier than their ICE counterparts and more comparable to the weight of a full-size truck or SUV. Aside from less expensive and smaller EVs, they also typically have more power and/or torque, much like how a truck typically has a large turbo-6 or V8 and therefore…

Excellent Hot Shots quote!  (and Bowie and others)

Thank you for the much needed laugh! You win the internet today - that is hilarious!

Did the dear fly into orbit like they sometimes do?

I am just glad the two most recent owners of this car found out about the issue through the check-engine light and not after a collision. Imagine purchasing one of the safest cars on the road only to have the two most important restraint systems fail and turn you into a meat pancake during a collision.

I just spent one minute on Cargurus and found hundreds of brand new Civics near me in the $25K to $30K range which is a fraction of what this person spent on their premium EV.  And those are brand new cars with factory warranties from a brand that is known for reliability and affordable maintenance.  It doesn’t take a…

You are forgetting another major issue - the person purchased a car they could not afford. It is not that difficult to buy a certified pre-owned car with a factory-extended from a manufacturer with a good track record of reliability. Hell, they even could have purchased a new Civic for half of what they spent on the…