I think Honda and McLaren should seriously consider forming a partnership with, and backing, Sauber.

I bought my first new car ever in April. My E-class wagon was totaled, and I went straight to the Subaru dealer and immediately signed for a new Outback. I put as much down as I was comfortable with and financed the rest for five years. We bought a lower trim level, so the price out the door was a few grand under the…

High five.

Here’s my car.

Sure, people can totally be trusted to carry guns in public. Absolutely.

This is the first time VW has made me wish I owned one of their cars.

Is this really ‘hipster?’ It seems to me that everything ‘good’ and ‘great’ is labeled as ‘hipster’ now, and that’s too wide a net.

A 1996 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS-T. The front-wheel-drive turbo one. I was tired of autocrossing my old Mk1 MR2, and my friend offered to share his car for a season.

I did not inherit a love of cars and driving from my dad. While he’s been supportive, he’s just not a ‘car guy.’ When I was little and I asked, ‘what’s that button do,’ his answer was almost always, ‘it’s there to make little boys ask questions.’ We didn’t always see ey-to-eye, my dad and I. I was a difficult kid.

Space-X has made the most effective anti-robot-barge missile ever.

Do you know what else I miss about those engines, even the V10 era in which I started watching F1? The percussive backfire during gear changes. You can hear it in this video clearly, but it reminds me of how I could feel it in person. Glorious.

It’s a shame none are wagons. I just bought a new Outback and would have considered a Caddy if there was a good deal on something similar.

Man, probably like everybody else I have injured myself in the most astonishing ways.

Since that meet happened before digital photography was really that popular yet, this is the only picture I can find online at the moment. I’m sure I have tons of prints and negatives from that meet in boxes at home.

In early 2000 I needed to catch a morning flight in Manchester, NH. My coworkers told me it would be a three-hour drive.

I had an SVX (a 1993 25th Anniversary special) for nearly fourteen years. Honestly, for most of that time I thought I’d always have it. That car was fabulous. I sold it, however, in 2013 when I decided I’d rather drive cars than polish them. I found that right now I’m a competitor, not a curator.

I think the drive-through thing is way over-blown. The windows weren’t the postal slots you see on other contemporary Giugiaro designs.

I had an E350 until recently, when it was totaled by a driver who ‘failed to yield.’ I loved it. I put my kids in that rear-facing third-row seat occasionally, but I worry about the utter lack of any safety standards or crash tests for them. Yes, Mercedes has a reputation for safe and tank-like (if not…

My only point was that assuming the driver is wearing a seatbelt is not reflective of reality.

But the reality is that not everybody wears seat belts. Stand on a street corner some time and watch the cars go by. Depending on your location, you may see 10-50% of drivers not wearing belts. You can either say, ‘eff those people, they’re dumb,’ or you can use a standard that is more reflective of reality.