oldmanmckenna
OldManMcKenna
oldmanmckenna

Crack Pipe. 

The downside of turbos.

Don’t you guys get tired of whining “sTiCk tO cArS” year after year?

Are you new? There are airline stories, maritime stories, industry stories, and media-personalities using transportation stories.

After all these years I honestly can’t recall if it was her or if it was me, but a girlfriend and I were on a spring break road trip from Pennsylvania to Florida and we broke up around Fort Myers on the way home. Man, that was a long, quiet and uncomfortable 1000 mile drive home...

The TRD Pro’s starting price of $72,130... With very few options (just $295 worth) my tester rang in at $74,295.

But you get a potentially explodey engine tossed in for free!

Thing*

Over-engineering used to be a good think for Toyota back in the day.

Don’t buy these deathtraps under any circumstances. They’re unstable, dangerous, and buying one simply funds a fascist oligarch.

I too was dissappointed by that redline spec. This looks like a great little car but more of a slight step up from the “sport” trim than a full-on si. I guess they don’t want to encroach on the type R, but at these days you can’t even point at the Toyoburu twins as an excuse for only 200hp.

There is a special place in hell for websites that let you hover over one thing, then jump around so you end up clicking on another...

The point about people who need a truck to do truck things not buying Tesla’s is spot on.

The literal one time in history that a Ram driver did anything good for anyone else on the roads.

Comb the desert, you say?

1st generation Saab 9-5 Aero.

Pontiac G8 GXP. A 4.5 second 0-60 in grandpa’s old luxo-barge.

1st Gen Ford Taurus SHO. You’ll have to try to get pulled over...

Obviously biased, but I’ll nominate the 2005-2009 Subaru Legacy GT. WRX powertrain in a better chassis with an interior that was actually pretty nice, and of course Subaru’s awesome symmetrical AWD. Mine was a 2005, and I was one with that car like it was an extension of my mind and body, in a way I’ve never been with

Anything from Saab. The Viggens were obviously the most hard core, but really all of them felt far sportier than anything people in America were used to driving. A friend had a 9-5 turbo which was pretty dang awesome.