VinFast. When every car publication universally tells you “don’t buy a vehicle from them”, I am inclined to listen to said advice.

Slap RYLOS on the license plate and it’s a dead ringer

While there are a few obscure ones that come to mind, like License to Drive with the Corey’s Haim and Feldman and The Chase (the terrible Charlie Sheen one, not the Marlon Brando version), the movie that gets my vote is Excess Baggage. It was about a rich girl (Alicia Silverstone) who locks herself in the trunk of a…

While this isn’t a particularly inventive suggestion, I can’t help the fact that my knees still get weak some 30 years later when I see a first-gen Acura NSX in person. My friends all had posters of Lamborghinis, Ferraris, and Porches on my wall, but for me it was this all day long. To me, it’s simple, unfussy design…

Would need to add a couple hundred $$$ for whitewalls in the front to match the back, because a car like this deserves them on all four corners. Otherwise, if my mechanic gave it the green light, I’d buy it. NP

As the driver, if I don’t get to drink booze, no one gets to drink booze. When my college fraternity decided to go on a 13 hour Spring Break road trip from Missouri to Panama City Beach, FL, I volunteered to be the first driver. You can probably see where this is going. Guess who had to do the entire drive solo,…

Oof. Guess it’s time to spring for a Series S and an extra controller. Somehow this option is still cheaper than most LEGO sets, so it will at least let me save enough for my kid to attend Jr college.

The LEGO Movie and Mario Kart 8 are the two things my 10 year old and I most enjoy together. This sounds like a crossover made just for us, though I’ll wait until I hear more about the Switch port before pulling the trigger.

Yep, also from STL, and no surprise...gas is so cheap here, why not go big? Also, I feel like I can’t walk around a parking lot without tripping over some oversized knobby tire fitted to a mall-crawling Jeep Wrangler/Gladiator that will never leave pavement. Maybe that’s everywhere, IDK.

Is it just me, or do those double stacked driver and passenger vents look more cumbersome than useful? I checked the VW website and it looks like those are new for 2024. Maybe good for blowing air on your face and knees at the same time? I’m trying to come up with a good use case...help me out here.

The icing on the cake (pun intended) is that the TURBO button on those old PCs was to slow it down because the newer chipsets ran the software too fast. Makes me wonder if the engineers at Porsche were leaning into their “inner Elon” and trying their hand at being edgy with their tech names, where engaging the “turbo”…

AirConsole: the new battleground for shovelware formerly infesting the Nintendo eShop.

I’ll take the low-hanging fruit and nominate the Toyota bZ4X. The fact that I had to look up how to spell the “name” of this model pretty much says it all.

I saw a lot of this when I was in Guatemala last year. Not only do they get our leftover cars, but it extends to fleet vehicles like fire trucks, ambulances, and even school buses. When they are replaced in the States with safer, more fuel efficient alternatives, this is one of the places they end up because they’re…

For me, the right song can make a commercial great, even if the rest of it is merely okay. The Acura series “Chiaki’s Journey” is...fine, just some goofy “anime” story. What makes it great for me is that it features the song “Raitei” by the excellent all-female Japanese rock/metal band NEMOPHILA. Makes sitting through…

Technically, the first car I drove was the 1995 Chevy Corsica they had in my driver’s ed class, and it was everything a GM car was in the 90's: boring, plasticky, and ergonomically challenged. For learning the basics though, it was fine, just fine.

Hey y’all. Can we please be done with this? I understand your position and appreciate the feedback. I would unpost it if I could, and I’m not sure that continuing to tell me that I am wrong is going to change anything.

Turn off the cellular connection to your phone and put it in airplane mode. There is a reason airlines require it, and it’s a darn good reason: it is a matter of safety and can interfere with critical airplane systems. No, your insatiable need to monitor your social media feeds constantly does not make you special or…

I know, right? His dad was paralyzed, he was named after his sister, and his momma’s girl parts were busted. That’s the shortest end of the stick I’ve ever heard.

This reminds me of the Battletanx commercial from around that time, featuring a tank that ran over and blew up the (not) Snuggle bear mascot from the fabric softener of the same name. We need to bring back more commercials like these. If I have to watch ads on Pluto TV, I wish they were as interesting as these. I…