1st: I’m actually surprised that cars don’t automatically shut off if you go too far away with the fob. Seems like that would make perfect sense, or the car would shut down after a certain time. That said, anyone who would leave a car running indoors, on purpose, probably needs supervision.

You lost your argument when you decided to start throwing the word “hipster” around. It's a tired insult that gets trotted out whenever someone can't think of a real argument.

You played a lot of Test Drive back in the 80’s, didn’t you.

Mmmmm....French complexity with a high strung Italian engine. Delicious. Please pass me a glass of still water and an Alka-Seltzer.

Ha, I saw one a couple of months ago! I liked it so much that I started looking into them, for shits and giggles, but came to my senses soon enough.

Tgats clearly not what’s being said. The fact that you think this makes me think that you have a lot of customer service complaints.

I’ve decided that any F-Pace I see will be pronounced “Pface”. I’m tempted to get a 3-D printer and do up a run of replacement badges that say “Pface”.

See, I’ll have to try that next time. I haven’t had a car with an AUX jack till recently, so it never occurred to me to try it.

FWIW, I prefer to use some other nav system than my phone, for a couple of reasons. 1.) its never loud enough for me to hear turn by turn directions, and 2.)more importantly, I can’t read a map on my phone when it’s up on the dash.

My old ‘96 Miata had an aux button to nowhere as well. I’m told it was for a dealer fit CD changer, although I’m not sure where it would go.

This sounds like the steering wheel volume controls I have now. One click is one step higher or lower. I have to admit I rather like that system, but I think I just like the precision.

Supercharged by Amherst Villiers, no less.

Nope. Looks a little too amateurish, particularly the interior.

You’re the one who tried to tell us that the Prowler was a lightweight roadster and should be compared to cars like the Z3 instead of more powerful cars. The comparison falls flat on every level, because you can’t actually do anything in a Prowler bar drive someplace, then go home. You can’t travel in it because you…

The difference is the fact that you could use a Z3 as a car. To take a weekend trip in the BMW (or a Miata, or an MG Midget, or just about any roadster, modern or old), you open the trunk, pack some luggage, and go. To do the same in a Prowler, you needed the optional $5000 trailer.

You can quote all the power figures and neato tech pieces you want, but your comparison ignores one important thing-you couldn’t use a Prowler as a car. The Corvette, Boxster, and BMW were vehicles you could use for actual transportation purposes. They had things like luggage space and weather protection that didn’t…

I think Nick Mason won this contest by apparently doing the school run in his Ferrari 250 GTO.

Not really. A large part of it was the fact that the descendents of Dominick DiMatteo Jr. didn’t really have much interest in running a grocery store chain. Dominick died in 1993, and a few years later the family sold the chain to Safeway. They put a stop to the “Fresh Store” concept that the DiMatteos had started up,…

Just jumping off from your comment, but the most common complaint you see about Starbucks is something along the lines of “I ordered a medium coffee and the kid behind the counter refused to take my order till I used the stupid size names!”, and it almost always includes something about how the barista was snobby.…

My favorite SBX experience ever was one Christmas, I went into the one across from work, where I went every day, and ordered what I almost always ordered, which was iced tea of some kind. I waited in line behind like three people with overly complicated orders, got to the front of the line, handed over my money, was…