About 2 weeks after I got my Mazda3, I went back to the dealership to get an accessory they didn't have in stock at the time installed. It's about 30 miles from where I live. There are two options for getting home: highways or curvy, hilly back roads. I picked the obvious choice.

Runaway acceleration. Sue Toyota.

Also known as the "how much blood can we squeeze from this stone and how fast can we do it" strategy.

There's got to be some psychological phenomenon that causes people to cling to crazy beliefs in spite of buckets of evidence otherwise, or lack of evidence supporting their crazy conclusion. If someone believes that the last 10 presidents have been lizard people, nothing you say could possibly convince them otherwise.

CARB is ridiculous. It's way too complicated and seems like it creates more issues than it solves. It's 1000 pages of bureaucratic garbage that's had every lobbyist's hands on it.Scrap CARB. Figure out what the goal is. Is the goal to reduce reliance on foreign oil? Is the goal to reduce emissions? Or is the goal to…

I had a professor in college who was really into cargo ships. We spent a lot of time looking at the Emma Maersk and its sister ships, and looking at how cargo ships had grown over the years.

I'm hoping the camo is covering a window back there. The current gen Mazda3 has fairly large blindspots due to giant pillars, but definitely not that big.

It's such a murky area that it's interesting to talk to people and hear their thoughts on it, especially people who have strong opinions about American cars. I tend to go by where they were originally designed. Chevy Cruze? Korean. Ford Focus? German. Dodge Dart? Italian.

This is true. Baseball is not a particularly viewer friendly sport, especially when compared to basketball or football. If you're 8 years old, who's going to be able to hold your interest for longer: Adrian Peterson or Adrian Beltre? LeBron James or Robinson Cano? Who are you going to want to go outside and pretend to…

I've had a buying decision somewhat influenced by comparison tests. I was in the market for a fuel-efficient compact hatchback last summer. Reviews and comparisons narrowed my choice down to 3. Test driving narrowed that down to 1. I ended up with a Mazda3. Had I never test driven the cars, I probably would've gone…

Fantastic.

The Charger is a fine vehicle if you want a large, powerful family sedan without bland Camcord styling. It's still a joke compared to the original though.

I read the title and instantly thought of this.

Made me think of this.

The collective hivemind recovers the battered & bruised, but still breathing, brother Beetle.

Environmental pollution is an economic externality. It's an economic impact not immediately felt by the corporation doing it. Most of the hardcore libertarian/capitalist types I've talked to would be okay with the pollution as long as the corporation was also responsible for cleaning it up and paying damages. That…

I think it was a Ford Country Squire. Blue. With the wood paneling.

I know the plane connection was pre-GM, but if we look at the first car those aircraft designers made, the Saab 92...wasn't exactly something to be proud of. I'm guessing they had some people with automobile experience before they started making competitive cars.

I've got no words of advice to offer, but I hope you get your Beetle back in as good condition as possible.

I would assume it has to do with the cost of the guns themselves. Three of the countries in your example have homicide rates significantly higher than the US. Serbia has organized crime, but doesn't have particularly high violent crime.