Imagine that you had to pay $9.99 per month to enable your car’s “ad-free” experience. Note: this does not get rid of ads from signs, billboards and the like... nope, it just removes the ads for KFC and divey strip clubs from the instrument binnacle that seem to randomly pop up.

I’ll be willing to allow subscriptions like that as soon as the federal legislative body passes right to repair.  i don’t want to go to jail for bypassing the subscription to unlock a feature in my car that it came with.  Remember the old NES red blinky light?  Turns out you could snip a pin on the 10NES chip and it…

mitsubishi mirage... only weighs about 2100 pounds and has a measly 76hp. Take a 4B4, bore it out, slap a 2nd turbo on it, open the headers, give it high strength pistons, rods, crankshaft, better valves, and line the cylinder walls properly - easily good for 325 horsies and about 275 pounded feets. Put the GOOD…

It’s likely that the HUD still works, but weather most of the other in-dash electronics do as well is another story altogether. GM’s of this era were known for being engineered by the fine folks from the accounting department, and the electronics work about as well as any other homebrew hardware made in some poor…

I love this car... but $13k is just too much money given the age of the vehicle. You could by two similar yank-spec 300 CE’s for that price.  Although having it optioned with a 4-speed and not the 5, makes me think that this was truly the non-optioned base model here.  Might wanna dump a few cans of scotchgard on them…

I know that it is a cousin of the Aztek, but I had an ‘04 buICK rendezvous.  You had to lift the engine to change half of the plugs and wires.  That car had more electrical gremlins than a brit make with lucas electronics.  Absolute shitbox.

My Cadenza had taken the brunt of a hit and run while my son (who was borrowing it for the day) was inside of a marathon getting a drink. Suffice to say, while the ‘denza was in the body shop, my rental was a Journey. Between the incredibly anemic and wheezy 4-pot, a 4 SPEED AUTOMATIC (for a MY2020?  seriously?) and a…

I’ve rented some Siennas (previous gen) with the last two of them having the radar cruise control... This is when they were still the 6cyl - which, honestly is a surprisingly competent engine that moves the giant brick around with nary a complaint.  Indeed they are superb for what they are.  I still think that the…

Maveraptor!

just google “geo metro ls swap”  ‘nuf sed.

The “always-on CEL” is a feature, not a bug.  Similar to most GM vehicles past, present and future.

Vince McMahon is somewhere off in his ivory tower catching wind of a new profit opportunity. Quite possibly he is out there in the wild digging up the body of Mean Gene Okerlund to make this happen.  

So I bought a ‘94 Caprice 9C1 with the LT1 engine about 20 years ago.... that car was fun for hooning, but far too heavy to reliably drift. And as long as we’re talking about reliability, well, let’s just say this ain’t it. For those that don’t know, during that era, the Caprice and Impala were more or less identical…

The dealership was playing checkers whereas the customer was already a few moves ahead in 3D chess.  At no time did the dealer ask themselves “what if the guy refuses, goes to the media, reports this to the manufacturer, or files suit?”  The latter of which could be especially troubling for the dealer should law…

What about the Ford Contour’s stablemate?  The oft-coveted Mercury Mistake (or was it Mystique?)

Now, all rentals from Hertz are eligible for the random Hertz Donut™. You might have paid in full for your rental, but we’ll still be asking you “Hertz, Donut?™”

“No dice” is too nice of a term for the price asked for a meh 80's GM luxobarge.  Special occasions might necessitate temporary re-introduction of the former negative response type of “crack pipe”.  This is definitely one of those occasions.  Or as I might say aloud here “Not only no, but HELL NO!”

I had a 2002 Buick Rendezvous.  Ignition was problematic, so I needed to change the plugs and wires.  This had the big ol’ 3400 mounted transversely and a short hood.  that meant 3 easy plugs to get at (facing the radiator), and 3 not so easy ones to get to - basically you couldn’t even see them when the hood is…

I have family in Putnam County OH and am there a few times a month... I can say with a bit of authority here that it is definitely one of the most bass ackwards places on the entire planet.  The vaccine rate in that county is about in the single digits.  If there is one place that should mandate the vaccine, it would…

If a hacker takes down critical route/switch gear at the backbone, carrier hotels, or ISP/MSO’s, the hand of justice would be terribly swift to bring such a person down.  Both actions are disrupting different types of infrastructure.  Why are people more sympathetic about truckers doing what is essentially the same…