Side note: Am I driving the CVT wrong? Is that possible? Hit the gas, go forward. Do I have the music too loud? What is the deal with this loud engine/transmission always talked about? Maybe I just haven’t been in enough better cars.

I'm not a car guy. I mean as an engineer I appreciate the engineering of better vehicles. But I like my Patriot. I like the way it drives (yes it's slow, I don't drive fast). I like the way it looks (reminds me of the '88 Laredo we had as a kid). I like its features (nothing fancy, just enough to be practical and…

Town next to me...it’s pretty awesome/scary seeing the weather along the lake on that stretch (Route 5). Route 5 heads into downtown Buffalo, via the Skyway, where you get some cool views of whitecaps pummeling the break wall. This location (Hamburg) also flooded from the wind pushing the lake over the road. Do not…

If this doesn't have an 8' bed (as many pickups don't), it actually becomes less useful than even a Jeep Patriot for things like, oh, I don't know...hauling 8' lumber. I guess you get the extra length with the tailgate down, and can strap the load down, and put a flag on the load...

Frank Reich is why you make the change.

Poor Jim Schwartz.

Man, the peer pressure to not like this is immense

Non-Hispanic blacks (as of 2014) make up 12.2% of the U.S. population. I never understand the outrage when employment numbers that roughly follow national demographics are made to look like the whites have all the jobs. Yes, 86.7 % is high, but that’s not telling the whole story. Who are the other 13.3%? Are Hispanics…

My buddy has a supped-up Camaro that started as an SS and says the same thing about it with winter tires.

*...like not having sex with your supermodel girlfriend...

I don't see how that's strange at all. Pucks aren't spherical and bounce in all sorts of weird ways. Or was this a joke?

Not the GTO, but related...my buddy had a G8 GT, and although only available as an automatic, it had decent power and was a comfortable car. He's got a manual Chevy SS now, and is happy to shift again.

Ok so who wants to restore a Wagoneer for me?

and listening to The Tragically Hip,

I've never seen that commercial. I like it. Is that douchey?

This is a good side point. 73% of licensed drivers have no idea how to operate a car other than turn key, press pedals.

Town I went to school in (Lewisburg) has two drive through beer stores. Anything you needed...cases of Natty Light, kegs, cups, ice. Very convenient.

Damn that is sexy.

So now that they're no longer new cars, we can let depreciation do it’s work and look for them on the cheap, right?

Buffalo here...definitely WNY, a subset of Upstate. Because downstate is just NYC and Long Island, which should be different state.