And on an unrelated note, I’m going to drive a Ferrari 458 Italia around a track next year, and I’m annoyed that it’ll have paddle shifters instead of the classic Ferrari gated stick.

Also, I test drove a Juke. It’s ...fine, but weirdly small inside. Also not quite the fun car it’s advertised to be. A CVT is just...why.

I’m a VW fanboy as much as the next guy, if the next guy is a VW fanboy, but there’s a definite “flip a coin” thing with VW’s reliability. I’ve found that you either get a rock solid car that’ll last you for years with no trouble, or you get something that’ll spend more time in the shop than on the road. My current…

It’s always been assumed that minivans are terrible, boring mom cars. What this article presupposes is, maybe they aren’t?

I’m going to try my damnedest not to run my car into any more curbs, walls, or bump other cars while parallel parking.

They also tried to be a taxi company, but they regularly fail at that as well.

I use premium in my 2012 GTI, because she is a precious girl and I love her and only give her the best.

Dark but accurate

The one that I can’t stand is “SIMPLY HAVING A WONDERFUL CHRISTMASTIME”

Kewl

Ok, am I the only one who thought: “Hey, the Nazis have a time ship. That’s a problem. Oh, they’re just using it to shoot up our heroes instead of, oh, I don’t know, going back and giving Hitler a nuke??” Wasn’t the whole point of having a time ship to, um, travel through time? No? It was just to have a random flying…

Is it at all possible to acquire this today if you’re not in the UK? iTunes only has it in their UK store, and for some reason as a Yankee, I can’t buy anything from the UK store. Is it anywhere else?

We had an LW200 wagon for a few years. It was gold, huge, and ugly, but it was comfortable and...fine, I guess? We used it to carry stuff and pets on a move from Oklahoma to Oregon, and then it died of dysentery (long story short).

Neil DeGrasse Tyson? Is that you? (This is exactly the kind of thing that would annoy him)

Oh fuck off. It’s fun. Quit whining.

Something similar happened to me on my scooter once (at a slower speed). It was late at night, I was wearing reflective gear and everything, and this lady just...turned left directly in front of me (from the other direction into a driveway). No stopping distance available, and I couldn’t veer left because I’d hit…

I would have done the same. I don’t need another car (and I don’t want to pay the taxes on winning one). I can always use $1,500.

I can get behind this, but I don’t think Portland will ever consider it. I-84 is already a fairly tight three lanes in each direction through downtown, and I’m skeptical they’d be able to find the space for a moto lane on the side.

I commute to work on my Vespa GTS300 when the weather’s nice and sometimes when the weather’s not nice. It’s about 40 minutes crawling on a highway or going slowly on surface streets if I’m not feeling the highway.

I hate that guy. His moustache-twirling Victorian evil guy routine gets old SO FAST.