Wow, I would have bypassed the dealer immediately upon learning of that, contacted someone reasonably high up at Honda corporate, and threatened to turn it into a freaking PR nightmare. What fucking douchebags the dealership is, to me what they’re doing is tantamount to bait-and-switch.

You might be interested to know that “caspita” is an Italian word, an expression of amazement, and it most closesly translates to “Wow!”

All I know is that Thermistor is perhaps the lamest-sounding comic book superhero ever. What is your power, Thermistor? “I can read you’re temperature! (albeit-somewhat-inaccurately-due-to-placement-so-it’s-not-really-my-fault)

Stalk for turn signal/wiper/cruise control, knob for lights. Anything else would tear the fabric of the space-time continuum, right?

I know aesthetics are subjective to a great extent, bhe Civic R is actually uglier than the Subie, and I didn’t think that was even possible.

Of course she’s not marrying him, because then she’d be just a Regular-Schrader, and no one wants that.

Anyone else here beside me think that the Escala is an Audi A7/S7 ripoff? Kind of like the similar issue with Lincoln and Bentley?

Years ago I took the Hiram Bingham, which is also owned/operated by Belmond. (along with the Orient Express, and other famous trains) It was pretty darn fancy, although it was just a day-long ride, so no sleeper cars. Belmond has acquired some spectacular hotels as well. They are kind of like a mini-Four Seasons.

Macche, non ti preoccupare. Succede a tutti! Saluti!

Pssst, “Guidiamo insieme”, not “Giudiamo insieme”. Other than that, nice piece, hai fatto bene, figlio mio.

If the damaged truck is in fact from the same Koch industries, you have to love the irony of a truck belonging to a company owned by fossil-fuel fans like the Koch brothers being felled by a renewable-energy device.

Fiat 500 Jolly. End of discussion.

+10 points for using the word “cromulent”, well done old bean!

My neighbor is in love with them, he has 3 right now. I do like the chunky, all-of-a-piece look. I think the design has held up well.

The dog bone, obviously.

Meh. That’ll buff right out.

Congratulations to new F1 winner, and part-time Husky Valtteri Bottas! My two favorite parts of the race were Alonso telling his engineer “I already tried that, why don’t you try it?” (I want that on a t-shirt like Raikonnen’s “Leave me alone I know what I’m doing”) before parking it on the track and walking away in…

I liked this last season much better than before, and mainly due to the chemistry between the three hosts. After all, that chemistry was the secret sauce of the original show with Clarkson et al. Chris Evans was a disaster. I will say that I think either Rory isn’t a good fit, or the producers and writers haven’t…

Yes, my 1989 Alfa Romeo Milano Verde 3.0, I can still close my eyes and remember the sound of that V-6, arguably the best-sounding V-6 ever. It came with Recaro seats, a ZF manual tranny, and didn’t weigh much at all. I remember the day I picked it up, it had rained and the streets were somewhat wet. I was coming from…

Whither Macan?