100%. My Jeep is full of chrome on the inside that always reflects the sun straight into my eyes, no matter where it is in the sky. And the outside (Summit) is covered in chrome because apparently Jeep thinks chrome means “luxury”. I absolutely blame the shitheads that put chrome trim on everything on their car that…

The adaptive cruise control system in my Jeep freaks the fuck out and slams on the brakes when a car turns in front of me, even when I’m 100% sure I won’t hit the car at that current speed. I’d expect a super advanced autonomous car with LIDAR to at least release the throttle pedal when it senses what might be a human…

No, you don’t. The shift happens as fast as you can move the shifter. You always have to go through N and R to get to P, it’s meant to mimic every mechanical console shifter made in the past 30 years. I’d argue that pushing a button for Park like in a BMW is more unnatural.

I’ve had my ‘14 GC for 3 years now. Never needed the video or little card on the shifter to show me how the thing works. I figured it out with no problems as did my wife. Both of my parents, who are pretty technologically challenged, didn’t have any issues using the shifter for multiple days without my help. I…

I don’t think this is the case. You can feel the detents in the shifter when it moves, so going from drive to park, you can feel bumps at N and R, then a hard stop at P. Once in a blue moon, my Jeep’s shifter will only let me go one notch at a time, meaning when I try to put it in park from drive, it only moves to…

How do these idiots not get pulled over every 5 minutes?

There is a guy that sometimes posts on here who is a member of that exclusive club. A couple of his/her cars are in those pics...

Yeah, but we didn’t know that until after we ate there 2-3 times on our trip. And the next best ramen we found happened to be in a train station. The spicy ground pork just makes ramen so much better than the bland slices. It was extremely hard to find that type, but we always ate it when we found it.

So glad my wife’s family told us about those places. I had so many onigiri in the 2 weeks we were in Japan. Plus the egg salad sandwiches were as good as the ones my mom makes.

BTW, you mentioned ‘secret ramen joint in a back alley’. I just had to shout out to Ippudo Ramen in Roppongi, Tokyo. Best ramen we’ve had in…

We used to make those Jatos back in the day. I also refurb’d a bunch of 50's era Jatos for the Blue Angels’ Fat Albert when I first started working.

Not giving a shit about what happens on Twitter is such an important key to making my own life decisions.

My workplace is in an area with very few restaurants, so we don’t have a huge choice of where to eat. However, there is a Wendy’s, McD’s, and BK in the area. My coworkers favored Wendy’s, so I started going to…

I just looked through like 10 articles about new cars with 100+ pictures and finally BMW is the only one to give us a full side view of their vehicle. Why is it so damn hard to stop being artsy for 2 seconds with your camera and take a full on side shot so we can see the side profile of the car?

So honestly, is this the decline of the modeling industry? Car shows, car races, and bike races are now talking about giving up the ‘girls’ that hang around and look pretty. That’s basically what all models are, people that look pretty and get paid for it, right? So we should start getting rid of all attractive people…

Same deal with every driver aide out there. Or every single car on the road. “User relies too heavily on adaptive cruise/lane-keep assist/cross-traffic alert/crash mitigation tech and doesn’t pay attention to driving, crashes”. My car has adaptive cruise, but I still pay attention and immediately turn it off when I…

Nice race baiting.

I’m kind of surprised Gilles doesn’t drive a Trackhawk or at least an SRT GC. But it’s probably safely in his garage while the Wrangler gets put on snow duty (shown in his pic of the incident).

Agree. All I ever did with mine is save a bunch of people the time, aggravation, and high fees of getting towed out of a snowbank or off the beach at OBX. And I gave one random stock wrangler owner the satisfaction of yanking out my built XJ that slid off the road into 3-4 feet of snow.

Sorta. Think about it: A car is riding on four wheels with tiny contact patches with the ground, but the wheels are on very low friction bearings. So if you aren’t putting power down, the momentum carries the car a long way and the bearing drag and friction on the rolling tires is minimal.

210? I drive the entirety of it from the beltway to Indian Head every day. Assholes tricking on bikes or doing 120+ any nice day out. I almost hit a bike once trying to go around slow traffic. Turns out traffic was slow because a guy in the slow lane was recording a guy doing a wheelie in the fast lane. Would have…

They could at least put a little effort into making the boat look like the car or use a few parts from the car a la Lamborghini. Mercedes just paints them the same color and calls it good.