I need to see a car if I’ve never driven one like it before. I’ve been in cars that physically didn’t fit me properly (couldn’t balance visibility vs controls vs leg comfort). I also have trouble with collar size vs sleeve length on cheaper button-down shirts, so I may be a little outside the average US proportions.

I thought roundabouts were just for the public to practice drifting. You mean I’m supposed to just pull on and turn off right away?

Uh, the cars turning right were in the right-most lane, the other lane just waited for the light. Oddly enough, turning from random lanes is one of the few dumb things I don’t generally see cars do in this area. Here they mostly turn in to the wrong lane, not out of the wrong lane.

Ford Pinto hatchback, which was then replaced with a Geo Metro hatchback. I don’t think I need to explain what was bad about any of that.

They only run red lights? Lucky you. I see things like pulling in to the left lane of oncoming traffic to go around cars waiting on a traffic light and make a turn against the signal or cross to the right in front of cars doing right turn on red. Or rolling down a poorly-surfaced 40mph road towing a child carrier even…

In fairness, I know that some of the older Prius models do have terrible tires that are damaged much more easily than you’d expect. But while that (and other safety concerns) might be a reason to wait for an exit instead of pulling on to the shoulder of a highway, it doesn’t quite cover continuing to just drive around…

What kind of fool has two 2015 S63s and one 2014 S63? You either want a full matched set or sequential years.

If you want to know who supports science in DC, you have to look at the funding instead of the rhetoric. Letting somebody convince you that it’s just a party thing based on flavor-of-the-week talking points won’t help the overall situation. I’m more surprised that this had Republican and Democrat cosponsors, the…

4th: I remember the old days, when people read books while driving instead of using their phones.

5th: Maybe early next year we’ll start seeing lots of strangely cheap cars appear at used car dealerships in the rest of the country totally by coincidence.

Is the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile a van?

I knew someone who worked at Microsoft when the Zune was released. His office made a big show of putting specially labeled bins out for people to discard their iPods after buying Zunes. The bins remained empty, iPods stayed big and led to the iPhone, and the Zune has been forgotten.

Oh noez, where will I ever find a compact car-based crossover of average build quality, there’s such a shortage of them on the market.

5th: I always thought EGR sounded like a bad idea.

“Your driver display would generally have two dials, one for the speedo and one for the tach.”

Do those 40 cars also come with wicker seats? Everybody misses those.

Pfft. You’re not really connected to the car unless you’ve stood in an open parking lot during a blizzard turning a crank on the front to start the engine.

If you’re really important you don’t need a plane because you don’t need to go anywhere. Everything comes to you instead.

It’s one of these older guys who has a barn full of small engines that don’t work. I’m sure what happened is that the Jeep either started wearing out or something expensive broke and he put it out of the way thinking he’d eventually fix it or sell it. And 20+ years later, nothing ever happened, and I suspect it’s a…

I might possibly know somebody who has a 1980s Cherokee/Wagoneer in a shed. From a distance it looks brown, but I think that’s actually solid rust over the entire body. Maybe you can fix it. You know you want to.