Lately in NJ the bigger danger is the salt...there is so much you slide all over the place, even in an AWD car with winter tires (and lets not even get into the occasional mountains the salt trucks leave across the lane)! I get it, though, gotta get the bike home...

In the late ‘70s-early ‘80s, Pennsylvania State Police used seized vehicles for some patrolling...at least some of the higher performance cars, and for a little while. My guess is they were too expensive to maintain, so they used them until the broke and then auctioned them. I saw cars pulled over by a gold Trans Am…

No way, I’m sure it will totally be a ‘merger of equals’...just like Daimler-Chrysler was. And I am positive the result will be the same...Honda’s will get crappier, and Nissans will...um...wow...maybe a few will have better chassis (by using 2 generation old Honda platforms?).

Besides the fact that apparently nobody listened to a word Gordon Murray said at the time or since about the car...he wasn’t trying to make the fastest or quickest ‘supercar’ ever, he was trying to make the most performant DRIVER’S CAR ever.

Ok, I need to say that “Tires so bald you can see the air...” is the single greatest phrase I have ever read on this site.

OMG...nobody on this site has ever mentioned that 70s-80s VW aroma! It was rubber and metal and...motoring. Wonderful! They (VW) built cars for all the senses back then...the sound of a door closing on a VW of that era was so ‘solid’ and quality, it felt of a piece and made you feel like they knew something no other…

I’ve driven Miatas and I do agree that enthusiasts should at least try one once...and I drove a freshly restored Jag E-Type Series 1 4.2, which was sublime and oh so visceral (though not very comfortable as they were not designed with 6'3" guys in mind). Believe it or not, a long test drive of a ‘98 Subaru Impreza…

Except when it is always Florida.

1967 - the second year of the powerful 3.0l formula, without any wings or aerodynamic aids. The cars were insane, though they often are in Grand Prix racing (Silver Arrows, anyone? 510bhp supercharged V-16s with 4 inch wide tires? Yeah, pretty nuts.). It was also the year that an ‘Murrican won a race in an ‘Murrican…

80s as well...Karate Kid, Better Off Dead, etc.

My dad had a V8 SRX in Cadillac’s gorgeous Carmine Red...it was a fantastic vehicle, though the ownership experience was sadly marred by the usual GM issues (rattles/buzzes in the interior, minor stuff going wrong, the fuel lines rusting after merely 5 years requiring a $3k repair, etc.). The biggest problem was the…

They didn’t.

I had been averaging about 3 years turnover on my cars for 18 years until I got my 2016 S5...which I still have for two reasons, B) because of COVID and WFH, the miles are quite low and I’ve only hit 40k recently because of return to the office 3 days a week, and the more important #1) manual transmission.

Bummer...no Amoco stations around here (NJ) anymore, and I’ve never even heard of AMPM/Arco...and I refuse to give BP any of my money, so not much in this for me. Oh well.

Sadly, there are very few full-face helmets with buckles, but plenty of really good open-face helmets have them...which I always found weird because it’s so much harder to secure a double-d-ring on a full face than on an open-face. But whatevs.

The ‘wave’ has been around for a long time...but, as motorcyclists, we are often somewhat targeted by local constabularies (usually because of the ridiculous antics of some hot dogging idiots). Point is, if you wave to the left (which you kind of have to because A-that’s the side the oncoming traffic is on, and 2-your…

That was seriously well done...and the interior shots were all C5 Corvette! I saw the pedal first then made sure to pay attention every time they flashed to the ‘driver’, totally C5 Vette console, radio, instruments, etc. Cool!

Not sure if we are on the ‘popular’ or ‘unpopular’ swing on front-engined Porsches right now, which will determine if people agree with me or not, but I have to say that this is an abomination.

1st gen ‘neu’ MINI Cooper S...tiny on the ground, plenty big inside, quick enough (and not hard to make quicker), ridiculously excellent handling (the very definition of ‘tossable’, it just stuck like crazy), well enough equipped for most snobs, and just insanely, ludicrously, fun to drive. I had an ‘04 and it put a…

Came to post this...has all the elements of a great hot hatch, but with RWD goodness (and fun) added. Have been trying to sell a kidney to get one since I read the ‘short take’ (great pun) review in Car and Driver in the mid-80s, but sadly no takers.