First gear: I run 87 on my bone stock ‘16 GTI, and I’m very happy with it (mostly highway commute). I don’t see any need for 93 on the car. If you have a tune though, 91/93 is almost always required.

Square cut is the best kind of cut for pizzas, IMHO. Some people don’t like the thick outer crust and won’t waste food by eating the middle pieces. Some people, yours truly included, loves the outer crust and will eat someone else’s leftover outer crust (after cutting off the portion where mouth/teeth met the pizza,…

Yes!

Why do you think USC is called University of Spoiled Chinese?

The French are known for their “business acumen”. Just look at Thomson SA: they sold off their medical imaging division to GE and got GE’s consumer electronics and RCA, but declined to get NBC/Universal when it was cheap. They then decided they want to be an end to end provider of content with Technicolor -> Grass…

Orange juice, don’t forget orange juice!

I crack open my sunroof and crank the heat up, which is even better.

Range anxiety is like F E A R: Fictional Events Assumed Real, and for those of us who actually owned one or more early EV/PEHV, range was a consideration but never an anxiety.

Can’t believe it took this long for someone to realize. I guess nobody cares whom they descended from anymore.

You mean the people behind the Pontiac Aztek.

My parents do that and it annoys the shit out of me. “But the iPad is easier to read” says my lovely mother. I sigh and pretend I didn’t know her, like I did in high school.

Unless you’re a single issue voter on guns then NRA is your man, er, group.

I get what you’re saying, and what you just stated is the central theme for both parties to point fingers and say “look, the government is broken!” and tries to get elected. The problem facing our government is a huge collection of these individual problems created by (I’ll use the veteran’s own words) bad decisions…

You hit the nail on the head. I commuted in a Spark EV for a year and it was perfect for 90% of my driving needs. For longer trips we had the Volt.

Go live there for 6 months. Preferably find a girlfriend/boyfriend and just immerse. Nothing motivates like hunger and libido.

You’ll realize eventually that the difference between being able to hit on a chick at some bar in Roppongi or order off a menu is far different than being able to communicate with the proper politeness/grammar. And the circular way in which polite Japanese society uses can be maddening.

4th Gear: having lived in China as an expat for a few years and a driver whose Buick GL8 (essentially an Oldsmobile Silhouette) took him and myself on a range of roads and road conditions, I say that China itself is a proving ground. One minute you’re on a smoothly paved road and the next you could be jarred out of…

Obviously someone who has never spent much time (if any) in China, nor speaks the language, let alone understand the culture.

What credibility?

Typical chaebol incest. And none of their heirs look anywhere near as good as Lee Min-Ho or Park Shin-Hye.