Actually, I believe the answer to that is “yes” because turning a key involves lighting a fire.

What can I say? Driving manual is

Although I practiced on a few different manual cars before buying mine, the person who actually taught me to drive stick shift was my rabbi. I bet not too many people can say that.

It would appear he does, yes.

How about the Studebaker Gran Turismo? Grill is already kinda there.

Fair enough. I also can’t say I’d rent my car out at any price, even though it’s not worth much.

I dunno. As much as I loved the RX-7, I can’t say I would’ve rather driven it for the week than had an extra $4,500 in my pocket. Shit, I could’ve bought a first-gen RX-7 as a souvenir with that money.

I really can’t believe this car is 32x more fun than the stick shift Mini Cooper S I got from Turo in Malibu for something like $30/day.

Not really a story but here’s when I discovered a suburb near my college uses speed cameras:

Saw one of these street parked last year. They’re so incredibly kitsch that it just increases their charm.

I actually came on here to suggest/ask about the Aero since I just bought a silver 5MT. I pray that you are right.

No picture, but Sunday going Westbound on I-80 somewhere between Davenport and Des Moines I encountered a truck loaded with new Range Rovers lying on its side, a victim of the snowstorm.

Taking the general consensus of “They’re bulletproof and will run forever!” without doing enough research and buying a cheap, high-mileage 100-Series. It was surely my own foolishness that let me down, but still, as much as I liked it, I regret having ever owned that truck. Sold it less than 6 months after buying it.

headphone warning

I can say with reasonable certainty that nobody older than about 14 has ever ended any series of sentences, written or spoken, with the phrase “shut the fuck up bitch.”

This ‘97 S600 I saw yesterday is the perfect example of the sort of complex European machine I lust after and could afford to buy, but not maintain/repair.

Much like an alcoholic friend who has gone from being a dumb goofball at parties to losing his job because he keeps showing up drunk, disheveled, and hours late, this has gone from cute and funny to sad and ridiculous. I hope that you go up from here if you truly have hit bottom, but not it a “tune in next week to see…

Now this is interesting, because it turns out I was wrong. Many other states have regulations regarding how to merge at a construction zone like this. They all ask you to zipper merge. Iowa is one of two states (the other being California) that hasn’t really pushed the zipper merge all that hard. Why? Well, as you so…

In that case, “Iowa nice” disregards both traffic laws and common sense. Perhaps we should change it to “Iosa” because these idiots were not out wandering around, they were out sitting around.

I was surprised too.