I’ve been biking to work a lot more the past two weeks. I’m enjoying it, I’m saving money on fuel and I like getting stronger.

But what I’m saying is that we just leave the lights on our Subarus on at all times. Then you never have to worry about it, ever. It’s perfect.

That’s my point - the stalk should just never be in the off position. Just leave it there and your lights will always be on, and the car will always turn them off for you.

I’m okay with low riders, because who cares?

I wish I could star this a hundred times.

This is what all Subarus do. There is no reason, ever, for a Subaru driver to get caught with their lights off when they should be on.

I spent a weekend driving F430s around IMS a few years ago. I never drove the 360, but I bet it’s great. The 430 felt so alive and taut. It wanted to go.

Better to dissipate energy over time than all of the sudden. I rolled my race car last year and, despite it looking like a horrific accident, I was totally fine.

When we were in college, before my wife and I were married, I told her a ton of lies. None were very consequential. I just made shit up on the spot because I found it funny. Lobster fever. Exercising in front of the TV can cause seizures. Why I wouldn’t wear corduroy pants.

I have an RX8, and I’ve had one for ten years. I have driven it as a daily, autocrossed with it and now I compete in NASA TT. It’s one of the best-handling cars of the past fifteen years. And it has electric power steering that literally nobody complains about. (Granted that may be because the engine provides enough…

I like using a Sohn adapter - it gives you a visual confirmation that the engine is using oil, and you can see how much you have left.

People make a big deal out of the oil consumption. They’re used to consumption meaning the engine is ‘bad’ or warn out. It’s just different.

“These companies are still viewed by Wall Street as old-school dinosaurs who needed bailout money...”

People who drive with only one wrist draped across the top of the wheel. You’re not cool.

It’s possible the manufacturers are (understandably) unwilling to take some of those cars off their lists. I keep getting recall notices for my previous RX8, which I have told Mazda again and again that I destroyed.

You still get to, when you follow my plan. You don’t have to sweat individual side seal clearances, grinding them by the thousandth at the correct angle. Hell, even lose a couple pieces. Whatever.

Here’s what I recommend. When your engine fails (or the next time you decide to do a compression test and find that it failed a long time ago without telling you), tear down the engine.

I’m gonna take the unpopular position of backing you up on this a bit. With traveling at speed on the freeway comes the responsibility to look ahead and be able to react.

I have a roll of duct tape autographed by Red.

1. Buy this car.