Love Klip. I introduced my wife's readers to it about a month ago:

And now the kids know what sort of situation justifies such language — carelessly hitting a car that a man built with his own hands.

Absolutely nothing has improved my car control more than the autoX I did in college. The things I learned about FWD control at the limit in my beater DDs saved my butt more that once.

Take this, and shoehorn a modern "HEMI" 5.7 into the nose (instead of the usual GM LSx or FoMoCo 302), and you've got maximum awesome happening!

I concur. My dad bought one after years of owning domestics, and it has been his favorite, period. I just hope it lasts him until he dies, as it doesn't look like Honda is going to replace it, just kill it, as they did with the Element.

I'm amazed that you can tell its trim when the appearance has been so altered. Kudos!

Couldn't it have been the 3.0 Vulcan V6? IIRC those were notoriously reliable. Was that engine not available on the wagon in 1991?

It's.... gravity defying!

FIOWOTD?

Thank the gods my folks' taste in cars is cheap, and now that they're retired, their little-driven 2005 Accord and 2007 Ridgeline should last forever.

It's a shame you chose to abandon Moka all together. Why not instead check out one of DeLonghi's other fine products, the Alicia Electric Moka?

I see it being used as a new form of hybrid. Connect the bike to a generator that charges up the batteries used for slow-speed driving. Make people WORK for that extra fraction of a mile per gallon!

800hp, or thereabouts? Okay!

1st — BMW is back!

I had to go CP, because that price is just delusional for a car that, while apparently well-preserved, isn't yet a classic.

More like the Mach 0.1, eh?

In my experience, engines with good mid-range torque do well in autoX, not screamers. The 2.8 might do better than you think.

None, because this year, our substantial refund (single income family of 5 — we get pretty much all of it back) went to maintaining the damned Odyssey, which just rolled over 100k miles and needed a crap ton of preventative maintenance.

For us, it's not the passenger volume that matters so much, but the fact that we are a one-car family, and big on DIY home improvement and repair. So our one car doesn't just need to be able to haul 2 adults and 3 kids, it needs to be able to haul home big loads from Lowes and Home Depot. I have gotten very quick at…

Point taken. So what does a well-mannered, albeit out of his mind on paint fumes, drive down under?