Late to the party... I always had great luck with the Gislaved Nordfrost tires on my 9-5 (two different sets). Great conventional snow tire, even without studs, surprisingly durable in warmer weather, good in the wet. I had mixed results with Blizzaks (great when new and on ice, but not enough tread life for the…

"...annnd, the seat cushion can be detached and used as a flotation device..."

What turns into "O" Street in Lincoln (US 6 and 34) starts a couple miles west of the Missouri River in Cass County NE, and goes on and on... The pavement ends in Seward County, NE, then it's gravel. The first jog in the road's somewhere near York, NE, and it finally ends a few miles SE of Grand Island, NE. 131 miles…

errrr.... it's I-76, and I consider it worse than I-80 across my home state any day.

Had that driver not backed up he would have been in... deep kimchee.

Iowa needs something more along the lines of a John Deere tractor. In reality, I think the best seller is the F-150.

Having just sold a car that I bought new, loved, drove the snot out of (all over the US and Canada) and thoroughly enjoyed for 11 years, 11 days and 325k miles, there often does come the moment where one wakes up some morning and knows that it's time for change, to savor the memories, and send it to (hopefully) a…

Another great big, cosmic "duh" goes along with the map showing consumption by county: Outside of the major metro areas, one can pretty well "see" many of the major interstate highways in the counties that are in rural areas, especially in the central third of the US. One can easily pick out I-94 across Minnesota,…

"Damaged Cougar Claws Jaguar at Car Wash, Trips out on Treads"

A narco-tunnel trolley might be the way to get him out... eventually. But since we're talking motorized vehicles here, he needs to go big to go home, or at least to bob past the bobbies. Let's go with a tunnel boring machine...

Of course the police can't ID this car, if the commercials are to be believed: