I just had the leaking thermostat replaced this week on my ‘17 GTI with 34K miles. This will be my first and last car from VAG.

It occupies both states at the same time! Look for it in the Quantum Realm.

I’m getting a gentle bulge looking at those subtle creases.

Sometimes the angry noise indicates an exit row seat, so the gate agent can confirm that potential duty with the passenger.

It’s a big game of Go. I’m pretty sure that all Taiwan has to do is to build their own island on the opposite side of China’s, and they’ll capture it.

After managing to negotiate the price, I’m picking up a 2017 VW GTI Sport DSG tomorrow. I used quotes from multiple dealers to get my target one to move down. 

I heard the store was trying to increase traffic, but this isn’t quite what they had in mind.

I played Wings of Fury on my Apple IIc in college!

Every car I’ve owned has had a rear window defroster.

Mexico is in North America, but we figured out what you meant.

If my dad was still alive, he could help them with upgrades to those ancient systems. He retired in 1984 as a civil service employee of the DoD, having worked as a programmer/systems analyst, who wrote in COBOL and assembly language.

4th to last paragraph needs a correction:

Villains don’t care about emissions.

No, we’re Americans. Most of us don’t know the value of a dollar, especially the elected ones that argue about budget appropriations. We love debt.

Radar detectors are legal in NY (for passenger vehicles) and in CT (the anti-detector law was repealed in ‘98). Only VA and DC prohibit them for passenger vehicles.

As a business traveller who has been to China twelve times in the past two years, you are absolutely correct. There is no way autonomous cars have a chance on roads there, unless they are confined to newer roads without much traffic, and without the multiple kinds of other things you see there: pedestrians walking…

On my business trips to China, my colleagues and I have frequently hired minivans to go across the HK-Shenzhen border and around the mainland, if not taking ferries. They’re better than SUVs for transporting small groups and luggage.

Did you mean liquid nitrogen? If you hit nitroglycerin with a hammer, you deserve a Darwin Award.