I don't name my pen. I don't name my phone. I don't name my toilet. I also do not name my cars.

No. I know precisely where I am. The idea that your service experience with package delivery could somehow be lessened because the truck no longer looks like a "befuddled but determined old man" is mind-boggling.

First off, while it's since been sold, I wrote a totalled Jag XF just last week, same vintage, perfect shape and the repair bill for visible damage was a whopping $86.37. Yup, totalled. As I said in another post, many insurance companies have policies that make basically any recovered theft a total loss from jump. The…

The key words are "recovered theft". Many insurance companies deem those to be total losses regardless.

Frames and unibodies are repaired every day. Not all frame damage is created equally. People need to stop clinging to this inaccurate old saw.

You people are the sort that give your cars humans names.

I used to work for a major local dealership chain built up the hard way by a guy who dropped out of school in the 8th grade and basically bootstrapped his way up through the dealership food chain from lot boy to dealership-owner to chain-owner. When he sold the whole chain to one of the national congloms, he specified…

Steve Lehto speaks SO MUCH TRUTH here.

Volvo all but invented crumple zones. Look up any of the front end collision test and you'll see all sort of purposeful crumple zones. The motor mounts are designed to shear in a way to specifically drop the engine down in a hard hit so it would slam through the firewall. The hood has stress reliefs to cause it to…

Because it's been cold and snowy as hell the past couple of months.

I met a guy once who had some very serious health issues that had been around his whole life. He used a wheelchair to get around and had a full time caretaker. Really interesting car who was very open about his sexuality. In part, he was open to make clear that he was still a person, still a man, even though his body…

I tried to convince the airman at the cart to fire one up, but he said he'd get in trouble. Dude was a car guy, definitely. You could tell by the way he talked about the engines and how much he clearly liked them.

A noble purpose for a noble steed.

The one I saw years ago had a pair of oldsmobile 455 big blocks that were used for its' starter cart. There was some serious chrome on those engines too, edelbrock intakes, open-pipe headers, etc. I would have cheerfully built a car around one of those motors.

The panels sealed at altitude and flight speed.

(Note - My initial example of the getaway driving getting charged will not be accurate for every state.)

"Two street racers were unfortunately killed. Guys who were there to watch, guys who raced in that spot before."

Four men decide to engage in armed robbery. Three go inside while the fourth stays in the car for a fast getaway. The whole thing goes down wrong and people die. All four are charged with murder. "But the 4th guy wasn't even in the building!" Doesn't matter. He colluded with the others to take part in an illegal…

Please do not misread what I said as optimism. Quite the opposite, I am of the opinion that autonomous autos will destroy car culture as we know it, ruin one of my longest held loves/hobbies, and destroy my career. For me, it's all but an apocalypse. But I recognize that widespread acceptance of an effective…

These are some of the troubling ethical questions that I mentioned above. It is a conversation worth having, but no one is really interested because SELF DRIVING CARS GEE WHIZ WOW!