I am not sure about Ohio, but in PA you can't file a claim against damage from a plow truck, even if it's a plow trucks fault.  Their goal is to get the streets plowed, and at that they do a fine job, at least here in Erie.

MG and a few other British makes offered a system like this for their high end road cars in the 50s.

A lot of the crazy also came from the creative minds from AMC, particularly since Chrysler had budgets of which the AMC engineers could only dream of.

I just picked up an 09 Si to be my new winter beater. It’s a great car, fun engine, great transmission and surprisingly comfortable. I’m very unimpressed with the build quality and it has a ton of electrical gremlins. Have you had any electrical issues in yours? 

This is so true, as the owner of almost exclusively over 20 year old cars I've lived this.  Until recently I had a 99 Oldsmobile Eighty Eight and a 99 BMW M3.  The Oldsmobile was beginning to get extremely hard to get parts for as they didn't sell all that many and there was no aftermarket or enthusiast behind the…

I find this take funny, the most comfortable seats I’ve experienced in a truck was a rental Nissan Frontier in 2019. They were cloth seats with reasonably soft foam. I really liked that truck and made a great vehicle to run home from Detroit to Erie, PA when snow canceled my flight

I needed a truck a couple years ago to do truck stuff, purchased an older midsized truck and I haven’t found something I couldn’t do with it that I needed to do. Move a 20ft board in a 6ft bed, sure. Tow a 5000 lb trail, absolutely. Daily drive just because it’s fun, why not.  The big trucks are awesome, but I…

The first gen Cadillac DTS still offered a column shifter with the bench seat option. My grandparents 06 DTS had a column shift with a heated and cooled front bench seat.

As a former owner of an e39 M5 and current owner of an e36 M3, I agree with you. There was a time I kept up with every new BMW model, that changed sometimes in the late 2010s and other than a couple of years daily driving a 2013 Mini S JCW, I can’t say I have any interest in any BMW that is less than 20 years old.

Sounds like using the infotainment in my friends Cadillac ATS, it is all touch sensitive and very infuriating to use.  Super unresponsive and difficult to find when driving.  Buttons and knobs are where it's at.

I test drive a 500 Abarth and would consider owning one.  I have a friend who purchased a new 124 Abarth, it's a great car though it does have inexplicably short passenger leg room, like several inches less than my Austin Healey Sprite.

Tradesman appears to start at $60k according to the car and driver article I read.  140mile electric range for what I assume is unloaded range.

I'd personally prefer the late 80s style for Benz but their wheel game was on point in the late 90s!  Monoblocks are the Benz wheel.

I daily drive a 1999 BMW M3, and it’s the car I’ve settled in as being the car I appreciate more than any other car I’ve come across. I don’t plan on getting rid of it until it can no longer be driven. It has 190k miles on it and primarily is a winter beater, and summer autocross car as I have an Austin Healey and…

Having recently purchased a Honda to use as a daily to replace my Oldsmobile, I agree with your assessment. I was expecting a quality car with the reputation they enjoy, I was wrong. I believe that the mechanicals are extremely sound and reliable, but everything else is astoundingly cheap. The 09 Civic Si I purchased…

A good badge is fun. The Jeep name stamped into the tailgate of my Comanche is fantastic, full raised letters with contrasting stickers on the raised letters.

My understanding of one of the biggest challenges in burning hydrogen in an engine is actually metallurgical.  Hydrogen embrittlement is a real problem as it attacks steel and titanium, I'm not so sure on aluminum.  Hydrogen is an awesome fuel in many ways, it can theoretically be manufactured very greenly, it burns…

Heated seats. It’s the first control I go for when I start a car after headlights. My parent's Jeep Grand Cherokee has the heated seat controls hidden under 3 layers of menu in the screen, a big downgrade from the slider switch for the heated seats in their 97 Grand Cherokee.

I change my HVAC controls everyday as the temperature in the morning is usually very different than in the afternoon. A lot of the year I use heated seats in the drive to work and A/C on the drive home.  The exception is winter time when it's cold all the time so the heater is set on max.

I’m pretty confident that the cluster was recently swapped with a lower mileage one in the 09 Civic Si I just bought, do I care, nope.  The discrepancy in mileage made the car very cheap and I got a great car which the only fault seems to be many electrical gremlins.