I’m still driving my 1999 Oldsmobile 88. I’ve only had it for 14 years, but it’s been in the family since new. I have no plans on ever getting rid of it. I thank my grandparents for giving me such a wonderful, simple, comfortable, basic car.

British car parts are surprisingly easy to come by and also surprising inexpensive. Moss Motors is a great resource, and there are other sources just like them.

I was traveling just outside of Millan Italy for work. Came across this.

Actually I drive my grandfather’s Oldsmobile. A 1999 Oldsmobile Eighty Eight. It’s a very good normal car.

I have an e36 M3 and my best friend has a frs.  The M3 is significantly faster in a straight line, period.  The FRS is more nimble and feels way tighter.  The FRS is fun, but the engine does not feel engaging to wind out like a the chassis deserves.

I really just want a two door Gladiator with a stick.  I will probably just buy another Comanche when I decide to get a truck.

Yep, the new Chevy is one ugly truckling. If I had to choose between the three, it would be the ram on style.  Though if I had to buy from any new truck it would be a Frontier or Gladiator with a stick.

It does help that the challenger is one of the best looking cars on the market today and definitely in its segment. The front end in them is brilliant and the rest of the car is nice and clean yet aggressive in an understated way.

To put it into perspective, the Mini dealer I frequented had 20 loaner Minis!  My favorite was the one manual one  they had in the fleet.

Cramped is not the way I’d describe a F56 MINI. The interior felt huge in the one I test drove. I have orangutan arms yet had to lean forward to reach the rear view mirror. That was one of the main reasons I seeked out an R56 Mini. That and the R56 was much more raw and engaging to drive. Fake engine noises in the F56…

When I was in Milan last, I saw a beige Town and Country with a manual and a diesel clattering by. I was quite surprised to see Chrysler minivans had made it to Europe. However If I were to import a manual diesel van, it certainly wouldn’t be a Chrysler van. More likely a Mercedes or Renault.

Eh not that quite. There is a lot of mechanical noise from the chain and tensioner.  The white M3 in the photo is also mine, the engine is much quieter in the M3.  I need to post up an updated video, since that one I added a bunch of fuel to idle so that it doesn’t pop and miss fire due to being lean.  It is quite a…

Check out my youtube channel for more.  Or search the article that Jalopnik did on it a couple years ago. 

There are a couple of these floating around town. A sparkly teal one with a beige top in mint shape.  They are strange.

Something to that regard is on my bucket list. A couple of years ago I got to thrash a top of the line turbo diesel 6 speed Opel Mokka (Chevy Trax with an awesome power train) through some of the French Alps.  Was a brilliant time.

I did the exact same thing in a cabin in Colorado and at Tail of the Dragon, 5 engineers, all talking about cars.

I quite like the Frontier. I had a 2wd one as a rental car last year during a Detroit snow storm when my flight was canceled. I agree that it sounds great, about the only thing it didn’t have that I wanted was a manual transmission. The seats were particularly comfortable, the visibility was good, and boy did it drift…

Managed to get the rotary valve e36 out to a car show! A big win considering the reliability of the vehicle. It’s finally able to drive 15 minutes without puking all of it’s coolant out!

I use a snow brush. Usually start the car too to start getting some heat into the cabin quicker.

This scares me, a lot.  I like having consistency with the control of my vehicle.  I had the auto breaking just about cause an accident on my parents Jeep Grand Cherokee.   I had a Trailer hooked to the back and when I hit the gas to back onto the road the system thought I was going to crash into the trailer it was…