I want to see what it looks like when it evolves into a Carizard.

-as someone who’s seen first-hand what Taco Bell has done to people, I can confirm.

I was infatuated with MGB’s when I was little. Once I had the disposable income to add a British Roadster to the fleet, I ended up going with a Spitfire instead. I still love the way an MGB looks, but honestly, it feels a lot bigger than a Spitfire (and especially bigger than a Sprite/Midget) and if you’re going for a…

“Reimagined” shifters. We don’t want a dial. We don’t something shaped like a computer mouse that doesn’t move into each position. Just give us a lever that locks clearly into each position so we know 100% the car is safely in our out of gear and that we’re grabbing a shifter and not the volume knob.

The Renault R8 in the wild stalks its victim. He should have known better than to wear red...

Right now this is your best chance at getting an Audi with reasonable miles for $15,000.

Carjacker: Get out of the car!
Me: Ok, just make sure you throw it into first a second time before you try to get it into second. It can be temperamental.
Carjacker: What?
Me: Oh, and don’t twist the ignition key to hard. The lock cylinder comes loose.
Carjacker: Ok ok...
Me: And don’t open the driver’s side rear window.…

The one time it became abundantly clear for me was when I started stripping the paint off of a cheap 1963 Corvair convertible I had purchased. Underneath the paint, I found rust, more rust, variations on rust, bondo, poorly done metal patches on rust, and more bondo.

I feel like Chrysler’s insistence that “for” rhymes with “star” is all I need to know about where their heads were in the 1980's.

Yep. Based on the true story.

I had a short run at an ad agency. The classic Lucky Strike campaign was required learning. Basically, an ad agency guy asked a Lucky Strike exec how the cigarettes were made. He listed the ingredients and described the tobacco as being “toasted” during the process. The ad exec latched onto the word “toasted” and…

I knew it. Poor sales didn’t kill the Gremlin. Tennis Ball Tubes killed the Gremlin. Damn those bastards at Big Tennis Ball.

To be fair, a Snorlax with hyper beam is way more dangerous left out in the wild than a couple of armed robbers. 

I used to own a C4 and I never noticed or appreciated these features. I feel like I missed out on a precious piece of real life.

Glad you’re ok. And when I get home I am totally checking my Z-Bar.

My Gen 3 Camaro had the same problem with the shifter popping up and down. It’s the rear transmission mount. In the 3rd gens, it’s a liquid filled mount that’s prone to failure and expensive to replace thanks to relative rarity of manual transmission cars. Hopefully the 4th gen version has a more replaceable part. On…

Yep, I heard this is true in Maryland, too, where those things are out of control. Since it’s a private company collecting the $$, there’s really no legal ramifications to ignoring them. Can’t guarantee that’s true, though, but it would be nice if an activist lawyer went after them.

Should this guy go to jail thanks to GM’s odd choice of a factory counterweight to the clearly nose-heavy Avalanche?

Yep. That’s exactly how these companies make their money. Most of us don’t want to go through the hassle of fighting the ticket, even if they lack real proof. Early Virginia citations included pretty evasive language (which - to their credit - was later corrected) regarding how to submit an affidavit of…

I’ve successfully challenged every red light camera ticket Virginia has tried to give me because none of them were able to prove I was driving the car. (Maryland, on the other hand, doesn’t care about that, which I believe is in conflict with the constitution, but that’s a whole other discussion). I actually think…