From my experience if you want to drive a car for 200,000+ miles it’s hard to beat a NA Miata. Mine has 305,000 miles on it, looks and drives like new and easily has another 300k in it. Indeed with simple repairs I think you could put a million miles or more on a Miata. The only other vehicle I’d put in it’s league is…

I’ve had two yellow cars (Dodge Colt RS and the pictured Solstice GXP) and it’s definitely my favorite color. The Solstice in that color looked like a supercar and really got people’s attention. I really wish you could get the ND Miata or 124 Spider in yellow, that would be enough to get me to my local dealer even…

Jesus I doubt that I can remember every car I’ve had but I’ll take a shot.

I think the ‘79-’84 Colt hatchback is pretty spiffy looking and it’s far, far from the ugliest car ever made. The earlier Colt coupes on the other had won’t win any beauty contests, that’s for sure.

If you’re going to try and get air in a car either add a bunch of weight to the trunk or use a Corvair, they jump very well and land on all 4 wheels simultaneously like the automotive equivalent of a cat. I tested and verified that was so back in high school more than once and I’m still driving the car 40 years later…

If we decide to arm Ukraine giving obvious western armament is the wrong way to do it. Give them weapons that either replace their losses (ex-communist Polish tanks for example) or that could conceivably been stolen/bought on the black market from the Russians. That’s the approach that Russia took with their “little…

I’m not completely familiar with the laws but as I have never heard of that sort of thing happening I have to assume that that too would be illegal up here.

Thank you! Here’s a bonus shot of the Dunlop bridge from 5:00 am or so.

But does Delorean count as dead now that they are going to be producing new cars in 2017?

I believe the lower four brake lights are 1965 Corvair lights or they sure look like they are.

At least here in WA option #2 would be illegal, you can’t require a purchase to enter a contest. But they can give you some almost worthless prize as second place so that’s what most of these car contests do.

The most legit car giveaway I’ve seen are the Fiesta give-aways they had the car’s first year. At each city you simply had to play a game like Simon Says or Twister and whomever won the game got a new Fiesta, no strings. In Seattle they didn’t even do that, they just had a big coffee can of key fobs and whomever…

At least Eddie Braun proved this year that if it wasn’t for a parachute that released early Evel would have made his Snake River Canyon jump with no problems.

Maybe it’s me but the car appears to have a lot fewer miles on it than the lady does and likely fewer modifications too.

There was some discussion of this on “Q” on CBC One this morning and they were rather perplexed as to why playing Nickelback would be considered a punishment.

Hopefully part of VW’s overhaul will be to finally bring Skoda back to the USA. It’s going to be a long time before the VW brand recovers in the USA and that would be a great way to stay relevant in the US market.

I think there are some areas where the jobs could come back and those are the areas where the flow back to US manufacturing has already started. Major appliances for example where cheap foreign labor is counterbalanced by poor foreign productivity and quality. Steel is another, Nucor Steel here in Seattle is one of…

I just saw the date, I was probably right at the time then! :-)

15 minutes and someone couldn’t come up with something 12" thick that could stop the extender? (or more likely cause it to rock the train instead if it’s that powerful)

It wasn’t months later, it was literally hours later...