If I’m dreaming? Taycan or the E-Tron GT. In the realm of actual possibility, I am very intrigued by the Mustang Mach-E and would love to test-drive one. The BMW i4 also piqued my interest as it just looks like a normal car that happens to be electric.

I went from a 2013 Mazdaspeed3 to a 2017 Audi A4. I loved the MS3, but commuting 80 miles on Michigan roads every day was downright brutal with a 6spd manual, rock hard suspension, and road/wind noise. I was waiting for the turbo hatch to come out, but the Audi checked almost every box for me minus the hatchback form…

Seriously, 40 grand to get a 1% improvement in time when driven by a professional driver. Reminds me of my coworker who bragged about the carbon fiber cranks on his bicycle saving ounces when he was 50lbs overweight.

Hard disagree. Here in the land of cratered roads (MI) a real spare tire is a must. Imagine my frustration when my girlfriend called me at night saying she hit a huge pothole that blew the tire off bead, and I arrive to find that her Volvo only has an air compressor and a can of fix-a-flat in it. Living with low…

I can’t find a picture of it or remember the brand, but when I worked for a city maintenance department we had an ancient old street sweeper. It had some Ford 4 cylinder attached to a 4-speed manual with a 2 speed transfer case. The clutch was the heaviest thing I’ve ever felt and the gearbox was unsynchronized.…

That’s what you got out of this song?  It (like many Gin Blossoms songs) is pretty depressing if you listen to the lyrics. It’s about a drunk guy showing up to his ex’s place trying to rekindle their failed relationship.

My 2001 Saab just always had the low beams on if the engine was running.  The headlight switch did nothing.  You could pull a fuse to disable the DRLs, but the default was headlights always on.

Wants: V8 (maybe V6 turbo), RWD or AWD

Bought a used Nissan Altima SE-R with a “clean title” and 55k miles at a buy-here-pay-here lot. In the span of 18 months replaced the timing chain guides, camshaft position sensor, oil pressure sensor, fuel pressure regulator, and ended up trading it in with rod knock at 70k miles.

III. You forget the power of orphaned enthusiast models.

Are we still doing #COTD?  Cause damn.

So because you work for a shitty company that exploits you, everyone else should be happy with what they get?  Maybe you should be fighting to improve your situation.

So Guigaro, Gandini, and the creator of Tron get drunk in a bar and have an idea...

I really like how my ‘17 A4 has it laid out. Physical knobs and switches for the HVAC, I can put CarPlay on the entertainment center, and have other info on the digital dash.  Seems like the right compromise.

I would have bought one of these new were it not for a timing mismatch. I owned a 2013 MazdaSpeed3 for 7 years and 80k miles without a single problem save the fact that I went from a 10 mile round trip commute in the South to an 80 mile round trip in SE Michigan. It was not suited to my new drive. I wanted the turbo…

This is what I did last summer in the thick of the pandemic. I bought a CPO Audi when they were offering 1.99% for 66 months. I could have paid cash for the car, but why use my own money when someone else is offering to let me use theirs for essentially free? In the mean time I can invest that money in something…

Yet when Arkansas TRIES to destroy a bridge, they can’t do it:

Drove by this every day on my way to work, before Covid. At that time it was sitting in the lot at the SE corner of Trumbull and Holden and was much less adorned than it is now.

Seems I like my cars quite a bit more pricy than my bikes...

My 2013 Mazda would let me program new fobs to lock and unlock the car as long as you had one working key, but to marry it to the immobilizer you had to have 2 already programmed keys. Which kind of defeated the purpose because the whole reason I bought a second one was losing my spare.