1. Wrong XJ. Wrong Jag XJ, too.

There’s also a section on how to complain “the right amount.” Can you imagine anyone ever telling a man to do that?

What’s an interior? The interior of all my cars is just the inside of the exterior. I’m very pleased with that arrangement.

Right there with you. :) And it’s tough, because a lot of these things are, by nature, not something I can control myself: I’m not choosing to be a dick with low blood sugar, but low blood sugar makes me such a dick that I don’t bother to eat anything to fix it. Sometimes, if someone wants me to not be a dick, I…

This kind of explanation is useful, and I don’t want to belittle the thought and intent that went into it. I would, however, caution that this kind of view - “Here’s how to deal with me when I’m...” - is inherently self-centered. If you’re a dick when you’re hungry, the solution isn’t only “you feed me,” but also, “I…

Almost any car will do, but you have to understand how the interior of the car goes together, and what space there is between the interior and the exterior. Older cars often have more unused space, but typically require some tools to break the interior down until you can get there; modern cars tend to have better…

There’s nothing wrong with isolating all of the radio, air conditioning, bluetooth, and navigation controls into one screen.

Twitter fascists will kill anyone who suggests there’s such a thing as movies with a gender-centric appeal because it argues with their non-denominational view of things in which everyone is everything...

That seems more “creepy” and “dangerously close” than it does “hilarious,” but I wasn’t there. Perhaps the two knew each other. Perhaps there was a poisonous snake on the girl’s sock and he just saved her life. But touching stranger’s children’s feet while riding down the expressway is pretty no bueno in my book.

I’ve never understood why more inexpensive cars didn’t borrow novelty features like this from higher-priced cars. Yes, I’m sure a Koenigsegg’s dihedral synchro-helix actuation system is substantially more expensive than two barn-door hinges, and yes, I know that there are safety issues to be dealt with in case of…

The same goes for off-roaders. I had a good friend who wanted to invest $40,000 in a diesel SUV to go off-roading in. As the owner of several sub-$1,000 Jeeps, I gently reminded him that literally the first day he’d do thousands of dollars of damage to his paintwork and underbody, unless all he wanted to do was mosey…

This process often clarifies communication for both parties: hearing your orders condensed and read back to you can provide you new insight into exactly what it is you’ve actually asked them to do.

Besides the obvious safety argument, some incentives for outlawing them in cities include lower emissions and less congestion (the former largely because of the latter). Autonomous vehicles will be able to work with traffic systems to produce substantially less congestion than we see with today’s human-driven vehicles.

I went 20 years without a dentist visit once. Seems to have worked out okay. Still have all my teeth, and no fillings, despite the half-gallon of sugary drink I shove in my face every day. I consider myself extremely fortunate, and recommend people visit the dentist something more like annually.

Once I asked a neuroscientist acquaintance of mine what effect my 32oz-to-64oz daily Rockstar habit might have, considering I’ve been doing it for a decade. “I don’t know,” he said. “No one knows,” he said. “No one has ever done studies on the effects of that level of these ingredients over that period of time,” he…

I rarely, if ever, look back, but despite having owned basically the same car for a decade, almost every time I see it, it excites me that this thing is mine, and I’m about to get to drive it. I don’t particularly like it - excitement is very much not my thing - but there it is, anyway.

While there is certainly a physical, mental, and emotional difference between birth mothers and all other parents, and while I’m appreciative of any company that provides non-birth-parent/paternity leave at all, the substantial difference between the two is a little wider than I would prefer. Gender roles are changing…

With the whole car being just 3,174 pounds...

1995, but my 3.5” lift is probably giving me more like 4+”, because there’s so much weight stripped out, and all the parts are so fresh [previous owner didn’t wheel, just wanted height]. And lord knows how badly either of our frames or crossmembers might have bent over the years. ;) The individual variance on these…

It’s amazing the variance you see on what should be identical vehicles: I have 3.5” right now, with an SYE but without rear axle shims, and I go through u-joints like nobody’s business, but some guys are running junkyard lifts higher than mine without problems. I know some of it is down to weight - mine is pretty well…