While we’re on this subject, something has been driving me crazy since, seriously, the 80s.

I’m no engineer, so all I have to go on is anecdotal evidence. I have two cars with EPS - my 2005 RX-8 and my 2016 Outback.

I’m a little disappointed to not see a Diamante in any of the pictures. A friend of mine had one nearly twenty years ago and it was really quite great. A relatively large, well-made understated Japanese wagon.

I am horrified by your logic, but...I will abide by it.

I have always preferred the separate amber turn signal / red brake lights of European and Japanese cars. I just makes sense. Different colors for different things, and don’t ask one light to do two jobs.

Typical or not, it’s wrong. Speaking that way about other humans is not okay. Excusing it as ‘normal’ only perpetuates the problem.

Finger paint and foam brushes. :)

Before I head to the track each time, I have my three-year-old daughter and six-year-old son paint my car. They spend a hell of a lot longer than 24 minutes on it.

Disclaimer: I think that what this guy did was a bad idea.

Thanks to you, I now have Raisin Bran in my sinuses.

About a month ago, I sold the faithful family wagon, a 2005 Subaru Outback. We bought it nearly new more than ten years ago. We brought both of our kids home from the hospital in it. It protected us from a pretty savage t-bone accident, as well as multiple rear-end collisions. It took us all over the Eastern US.

You’re really not paying attention. When I have said over and over again that mental illness can cause a person to do things they wouldn’t otherwise, I’m also referring to the murder.

I didn’t excuse anything, and if you weren’t assuming things instead of asking me, you’d recognize that.

I didn’t say either was okay with me. What I said was that suicide is not the ‘cowardly’ decision that some people claim it is. The OP made a judgment call without any actual understanding of the situation, other than ‘this is what it looks like.’

That is a shockingly ignorant attitude towards mental illness. It assumes something like suicide is an entirely rational decision. It is usually not. It is a symptom of an illness, not a ‘cowardly’ act.

I had a first-gen MR2 for a few years. It was the first car I bought to compete in (for autocross). What a hilariously fun car to drive.

I loved Garth’s book, and I had never read an interview of him. Thanks, that was fun to read.

I just watched that whole twenty-one minute grinder video.

Nope. :)

No. But I’d also really rather not say who it was. :)