I now know what engine I want to put in my NB

Alanis, if there was ever a way to say goodbye, this is it. May the Heart of the Cards always be with you.

My first game system of any kind was that Atomic Purple Game Boy Color. Christmas Eve 1998, I turned on Pokemon Red for the first time. Haven’t looked back since. Had to sell it to help pay for college, and I miss it still.

Yeah, thermodynamics! Engineers represent!

I finally got a paying job with an automotive website!

While I do agree somewhat that the separation between pedaless e-bikes & mopeds is hazy, I don’t like the outright veto.

I still subscribe to a number of print sources—including Automobile, which...well—but you’re right: before the internet, magazines were the best way for people to get news and consumer info. Now, not so much.

I’m only a paid writer now because of what you told me at the BASF Design Showdown. But it was because of you and the site you helped cultivate that I could even dream of being there in the first place.

Patrick, thank you for taking the time to talk with this dumbass kid who’d just moved from Chicago and was giddy about talking with the actual writers from a website in a way-too-loud bar in Royal Oak.

How does this man keep getting cooler?!

There is apparently at least one in the Detroit area, if you ever find yourself out there. It’s been seen at a few Autoweek Cars and Coffee events, and there are photos, but I’ve never been lucky enough to see it in person.

Raph, you need to be a product planner. “This but taller” is an amazingly simple, brief, and clear direction.

I very very much want them to make a CT125. Then I’d have an excuse to go light-adventure riding for not a whole lot of money.

Flying to Kazakhstan to buy an old Daewoo and sell soft-serve ice cream out of it.

The ultimate in race efficiency: bring your tools and spares in the bed, then dump them out and race!

I know--I was considering getting an AWD kei truck as a second vehicle, especially for the Chicago winter, but I am now seriously thinking about a WRX ute

Hear me out:

I was at a Halloween party one year, and one of the hosts brought out a Ouija board—I think as a joke.

The world needs more rally 911s

If I can ever afford to retire, I’d like to live in Jackson, WY and daily an FJ40. It’s just about the only SUV I actually like