“Voodoo Cadillac” by SCOTS (Southern Culture On The Skids)...it is, hands down, my favorite car song, my favorite rockabilly song, and one of my favorite guitar songs of all time. It is impossible to not tap your toes or sway your hips when this thing plays. Catchy as all hell and great lyrics...

I have loved the Imperator since I read about it in Road & Track Exotic Cars 3 (I think, might have been 4). But I agree, the earlier ‘periscope’ version is prettier...it didn’t have those odd cut-outs on the front fender sides or ungainly headlight covers. Might have been a little shorter as well. Back in the 80's, I…

These idiot companies are going to keep messing with the basic, well known and obvious, controls until somebody dies. Oh wait, that happened already with the Jeep idiotic shift lever. I only occasionally drive an automatic, but when I get in my GF’s Tiguan, I know exactly where Park, Drive, and Reverse are...when I…

Doesn’t it being off to the side drive you insane? I’m not OCD but the asymmetry made me cringe when I had tried one on my A5. Of course, the Audis have a gaping maw of a grille, so the plate actually breaks that up a bit, but still...

My heart wants me to say my VAG-COM, that I’ve used to tweak things on all of the Audis I’ve owned, and my girlfriend’s two VWs over the years...it’s a nifty tool, but complicated (it is a pain to use) and a trifle dangerous. Plus, it requires I keep a Windows system handy and I hate that.

I’d love to see more historic F1 cars in modern racing games...with their greater reliance on mechanical grip over aero I’d think they would be well suited to some of the game engines. My favorites would be the mid-50s (Ferraris, Lancias, Alfas, Mercedes), late-60s (Lotus, Ferrari, BRM, Eagle!), and late-70s…

I’ve always had the rather unpopular opinion that Vettel just wasn’t THAT good. BUT his driving style was perfectly matched to the Red Bull chassis that he found himself in for several years. It’s like Schumacher at Benetton...that car just suited him really well (it was nigh-undriveable for some of his teammates at…

Oh my...some of these are great, and I’m almost (but not quite) ashamed to admit that I’ve been guilty of a few of them as well (the revenge road rage, the puddles...oh, I love me some puddles!).

I’ve been watching that, hoping for a good episode. The first one about the Dale was particularly interesting, being it aired right when HBO was finishing their mini-series about that whole fiasco...it was sensationalized crap, to be honest. The next few episodes haven’t been good, either. The show is done like those ‘…

Now, don’t be mean about the Chevette...it was designed when the Detroit idea of a ‘small car’ was a land-yacht shrunk down.

So when I am visiting my girlfriend and we want to watch Netflix I’ll no longer be able to use my account there, as she is in a different town (and county)? I’m not buying a second account, and as we barely ever use this one to begin with, I’ll just cancel it. All of the TV shows we want to see are on different…

Interesting...and the bit about being susceptible to wind, well, that seems to be a VW trait. My GF’s Tiguan is tossed like the SS Minnow in a stiff breeze, and my ‘86 Golf (and brother’s ‘81 Jetta) was all over the place in the wind. I had a Q3 as a dealer loaner for a week and it was fine, in spite of being…

I hope you are also going to do a ‘best street name’ QOTD...I bet there a lot better submissions for that one. My personal favorite: Shades of Death Road, which is in Independence, NJ. Turns out they featured it on Weird NJ once, and there’s a Wikipedia page for it! I just use it as one part of my route on my weekend…

Always loved these...and the prior 412, to be honest...and seeing one with a stick is nice. Also, this one has been driven a bit...I’ve never understood the point of owning an excellent car and not driving it, but I’m an idiot like that (I have 30k miles on my Harley, when you constantly see similar models with 3k).…

I’m a little conflicted on this. We’ve all probably said, and have definitely read, the opinion that EVs won’t be mainstream until they start making mainstream EVs...EVs that are just...vehicles that happen to be powered by electricity. Then we start getting some and we’re all like ‘meh’.

Good timing...this was on ‘My Classic Car’ this past weekend, along with Leno’s ‘Jet Car’, which they actually took for a (really loud) ride. I always thought this looked like a less pointy Thunderbird (64-66 model) and it turns out that the same guy designed both (according to Leno). Cool stuff.

<sigh>...As soon as I read ‘...liking the old one a bit better’ I was muttering to myself, “Please don’t say no soul, don’t say no soul.” and then you went and said it.

I think you’ll find, if you look back at posts about manual transmissions and look at the comments, that many of us who both ride and are car enthusiasts have made this point several times...I know I have. And it goes both ways, too...for those intimidated by riding, one of the biggest things is the belief that an…

Knee-jerk answer: the one that the company won’t f—k up. (sadly, we know they will ALWAYS find a way to f—k up, so that means: none) More serious answer: something that they will actually just modernize, not ‘reimagine’. For example, your DS will look vaguely like its old self, but they’ll ensure it is entirely…

Since my dad doesn’t post online, I’ll post his as well...my dad bought (or his dad bought for him) a brand new, 1965 Pontiac GTO. Tripower. Convertible. 4-spd, posi, etc. It was gold...a particular color gold that was only available in the midwest (or something) that the dealer actually had trucked across the country…