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.

That WAS a pretty good near-luxury sport sedan...but its platform-mate, the Jaguar S-Type was even better. Better looking, better motors, and much better tuned suspension. The LS sure could fly ‘under the radar’, though!

Jaguar XJ? ‘First sport sedan’? I will give you Jaguar, but surely you meant ‘Jaguar S-Type was the first sport sedan’, right? I mean, it became THE car for criminals in Britain because it was fast, handled extremely well, and was roomy enough for a full crew. Such a good getaway vehicle that British cops started…

All of it.

The 2nd generation (1989-ish) Suzuki Swift GTi...a mini hot-hatch which was quite the insane little tin can. Called the Cultus elsewhere, in hatchback form it weighed about 1750lbs, and the GTi replaced the little 1l 3cyl (55hp) with a 1.3l 16-valve DOHC 4-cyl making 100hp. I almost bought one in 1988 but my parents…

“Is Bismarck a herring?”

Correction...’SHOULD have used...’

My girlfriend had replaced her beloved Jetta VR6 with one of these...she never really loved it but it was...fine. About 13 months in, she got broadsided by a van going 45mph getting punted 78 feet away (luckily not hitting any other vehicle) and not only walked away, but only had a small bruise on her wrist from…

I remember reading in Car and Driver years (decades) ago about how Toyota lost the Sienna minivan to a transport fire on the way to the...I think it was the LA Auto Show. At the show, the folks in the Lexus booth handed out press packets with crayons included in them. The color? Burnt Sienna, of course.

I would defend the Bullitt Mustang, because it is absolutely very cool looking and because Steve McQueen (the car was cool because he was driving it, period). BUT...it has always bothered me, every time I watch it starting from the very first decades ago...it was a peg leg. When he overshoots the one corner, reverses,…

Denial.

“There’s only two things I hate in this world: people who are intolerant of other people’s cultures, and the Dutch.”.

I thought the Citroen Traction Avant was the first uni-body car, not the Airflow. Though the Chrysler would obviously be the first American made uni-body.