The death of wood steering wheels is a story of pioneering new materials. I tend to define automotive evolution by the cars at the top: supercars. By that metric, the decade between 74 and 84 was possibly he biggest change in the history of cars.

When I was shopping my first car (in 2007) the first car I looked at was a red 318is with less than 8K miles, going for $8K. I test drove it and actually got pulled over because the owner hadn’t kept the plates current. Since I didn’t get a full test drive I went home, slept on it, and called the next day to try to…

I think you’re right to an extent... Honda saved a lot of weight, cost and complexity by not investing in a fancy AWD system. They instead put all that into old-fashioned engineering and as a result it is generally considered to be a better daily driver, a more rewarding driver’s car, and a hair faster around most…

This is all well and good, but I can tell none of you have kids.

On the flip side, I’m glad Aston is’t footing the R&D bill for things like this. I’d hate to have Aston or Ferrari or Porsche go bankrupt because they were developing a submarine or super-yacht that nobody would buy. Much better to have them make amazing super/track cars, regardless of who will buy them.

They told me that if I followed the rules, kept my eyes on the road, and used my blinkers then other drivers would do the same and we’d all be safe. Ha.

I don’t hate them. In fact I would really like them if they were one color. Most manufacturer wheels are too complex and I like a simple thin spoke design.

I have toned down the looks a little by wrapping the bumper bar and swapping a ST spoiler on:

The suspension is more annoying than uncomfortable. There is lots of bouncing but no hard edged bumps that make you cringe. Now if you are the wrong body type the Recaros will be painful. I feel ok in them even for hours at a time.

You guys have asked for a Crosstrek WRX before, well I would like a Focus Active RS. That is maybe the only good thing that could come from this news. And it probably won’t.

“We care, and we wait to buy wagons and sports cars on the used market”

Dealers got $5K ADM on the FoRS for maybe 6 months. Then they started selling them for sticker. I bought mine for $2.5K under sticker and now you can get one below invoice.

Yeah, it’ll probably go like hell for about 10 minutes and then take hours to charge.

A silver 97 Prelude was my very first car. I drove it until the transmission case cracked and I couldn’t shift it anymore. Somehow the pics of the gauge cluster and the sunroof button brought the most fuzzy nostalgic feelings. Thanks for those!

2008 was the best season in my memory. Massa wins the final race and thinks he is champion, then Hamilton makes a pass for 5th on basically the last corner and wins by 1 point...

There you go again, trying to stick your wankle in a wankle shaped hole...

A long ways back I decided I was going to collect all the production cars that were the fastest in the world at their debut. I had no idea how hard it would be to define production car (I don’t count the Venom) or how hard it would be to get accurate top speeds for pre-80s cars. Anyway, here is my collection:

Scottish police speak millennial way better than ours do. I bet they don’t ever say “rate of speed”

I trust that there are reasons but I don’t buy either of your explanations. In a round chamber with half devoted to intake valves and half to exhaust, two large oval valves (or even hemispherical) would give a more efficient use of space than four small round ones.

You are right about how many apartments don’t have dedicated parking spots. That is another way that tickets disproportionately affect the poor. The rich people can afford gated private parking.