Recently I helped my parents list a 4Runner for sale. I was astounded by how many people asked if we’d take x amount per month or week. So, at least in the area in which I live, a whole lot of people expect that.

How about a Mazdaspeed 3, if you can find one that hasn’t been badly abused? I’m not sure what insurance would be on one, however.

Oh, man. My first car—for a week—was a brown AMC Matador. A friend of my dad’s was selling it, so I got it with the provision that I could return it after a week or so. The thing rattled everywhere, the headlights pointed in two different but similarly useless directions, and the wipers would turn on or off when going…

Also my first thought. My sister had one. Although I would have never admitted this at the time, It was more fun to drive and an all around better car than my much more powerful ex-police Plymouth. I think she sold the Toyota for parts after an accident.

I think the sixth paragraph sounds a bit too much like the police beat Boos’ head against the patrol car. I suggest adding a “he” and removing an earlier comma:

So she’s been paying for the vehicle for two years but still owes more than its value? I think another issue here is the failure of a significant portion of the populace to understand the risks of very long term loans. However, I also think someone at the city level should be willing to give the owner a break and…

So the ticket was issued by camera and mail rather than being handed to her by an officer? If so I’m going to take a wild guess that this lady’s grandson will be more than happy drive her anywhere she likes for the next few months, as her taking the rap saved him a whole lot of grief.

The Legacy GT wagon wasn’t far off from this idea, but hardly anyone bought one. Although the US public, at least, seems generally appalled by wagons but in love with crossovers, so maybe this would work.

Personally, seeing Musk tweet that he likes floors the other day and get 56K likes concerned me as a very, very, minor, minuscule stockholder. I’m a little wary of CEOs with cultlike followings.

These were 80s club kids. Even if they were and are normally very intelligent people, the exposure to high volume Roland TR-808 drum sounds and clouds of Drakkar Noir neutralized most higher brain functions.

It doesn’t seem all that long ago that people predicted “manufacturing on demand” would soon be commonplace, often using cars as an example. They thought we’d be able to pick the exact engine, transmission, features, color, nearly everything we’d want, and the factory would make it. But instead we’re moving more…

I reread the book late last year, as watching a Trump rally reminded me of the “Two Minutes Hate.” I found it even more disturbing this time. One of the quotes that most hit home for me was this:

Hopefully we don’t find out some programmers just wanted to give them a thumbs up in encouragement. Sorry, couldn’t resist.

Maybe with a blue resurgence, dark green will follow. I’ve always wanted a dark green car, preferably called “British Racing Green” as that would make me feel cooler. But I’d also want it with a manual transmission.

A sleeper car I would have bought if it hadn’t been so thirsty is the Subaru Legacy GT Spec B. Not easy to find, especially unmodded. It’ll have an older Subaru engine with the inherent issues and probably have been driven like it can defy physics, but if you find a good one it may just be the stealthy dash of…

I haven’t bought a PS4 nor XBox One partly because I figured I had to be full-fledged adult at some point. Now I see this and realize, No, I don’t.

My Mazda dealer/service center always mentions the surveys and says Mazda considers anyting less than 10 a fail.   I’m fairly happy with them but not astounded, and they have done some not so great things. So generally I never really feel they deserve “10s” but then answering honestly would evidently be seen as wholly…

But I think the GT-One holds a special place in the hearts of anyone who played Gran Turismo 3, however many years ago now. It does for me, anyway, and sparked an internal debate on whether the sound of its blow off valve was more spectacular than the banshee wail of the Mazda 787b. (I decided no).

I think the most heart wrenching race breakdown I’ve seen is Toyota at last year’s Le Mans. But this year’s race is only 11 days away; maybe they’ll make it the whole way this time. 

I once had a turquoise car which really stood out. I recall attending a funeral and feeling a bit silly as my car really wouldn’t look right in a funeral procession, so I rode with someone else. At that point I thought maybe I should grow up a bit and choose more sombre colors.