Sir, this is a Brookstone.

“Mom, can you tell me about the Trump election?”

And it’ll cost about as much in maintenance every time it breaks, which it will, with alarming regularity.

Is making 60-second chit-chat with cashiers really that excruciating?

Are you seriously arguing that removing waiting in lines and talking to cashiers (or worse, making me bag my own shit) is anything but a net positive?

Yes. This is a million times more efficient, especially now with customers bringing their own bags. Scan the item. Put in your bag, and go. What’s the problem?

I’m actually very excited about this. I hate waiting in line, unloading my cart, then having some one bag the groceries in a less than ideal way. If I can bag as I go, and get out with waiting in line I’ll be the first one to visit this store if it comes to my area. 

That’s dumb. Just because you drive a shitty car that drives shitty doesn’t mean the rest of us should have to put up with that. Seriously hope this is a joke.

Who knew running twin turbo engines in everything from hot hatches to half ton trucks giving them 13,000lb tow rating or pushing that TT V6 to 450hp in a 6000lb Raptor would be expensive warranty down the road.

2nd Gear:

“That’s a running Porsche for the price of… well, I can’t think of anything out of category that might cost that much right at the moment”

I learned to drive in snow thanks to my mom’s RWD compact sedan in Connecticut during a bad winter. That thing would fishtail around the slightest turn, and struggled for traction in two inches of slush. Driving in snow strongly reminded me of riding a jetski, with worse handling. Some key lessons I learned:

Had an ‘84 Elco with a swapped 350 after dumping the tired 305.

This entire article and linked video is terrible advice. The editors should remove it out of concern for public safety. ABS braking systems are specifically designed to reduce stopping length in slippery conditions and the proportioning is actively changed when you are using a four-channel system designed anytime in…

Let’s be honest, the only real time we need to use the handbrake in winter driving is when pretending to be a rally driver in an empty parking lot. All other situations get good tires and drive conservatively. 

Look, I know a lot of people who’ve gone to the Team O’Neil for training, and I’ve heard nothing but good things, but this whole video series has been hard to take seriously.

They last forever if you use the parking brake as a parking brake, since there is effectively no wear on them. Start using it as a regular brake, and that shoe material wears down rather quickly!

I’m pretty sure that every car produced today has multi-channel ABS, including your Corolla. Mercedes started putting it on the W116 in 1978. If you have as few as two channels (front and rear, most have at least three (FR, FL and Rear), your advice is just nonsense.

This. Way, way back drivers ed (at least in the Adirondacks) taught to keep your speed down below 40 when driving in slick conditions.  You start to hydroplane at speeds ove 38mph  

This seems like great advice if your goal is for people to needlessly wear out their parking brake shoes in the winter. A better solution for most people is to use winter tires, let Electronic Brake Force Distribution (on more modern cars) do its job, and call it a day. If you aren’t driving like a Muppet, you won’t…