Every time I visit NYC, I see these all over the place.

I usually call it “parking by feel”, but, yeah, it seems to be commonly accepted practice in the big cities.

My daily driver is a ‘96 Fleetwood. It might be the last passenger car made with steel bumpers. I don’t worry about parking that on the street as much, if I can find a spot long enough. But twice, now, I’ve had somebody back into the front of the CTS-V with enough force to leave a square hitch receiver imprint in the…

No, that is NOT what bumpers are for. I’ve sustained $7,000 dollars in damages to one of my cars due to multiple people thinking it’s okay to bounce off other cars on their way into or out of a parking space. People need to learn where the ends of their cars are, and drive without hitting other peoples’ cars.

Been there, done that.

If you go back-and-forth between LHD and RHD cars (like I do), this will likely be your biggest annoyance. The part that I almost always mess up after going from one to the other is using the wrong hand to indicate a turn and turning on the wipers instead of the blinkers.

I guess I missed the original post. One comment I received that stands out wasn’t exactly rude, but it was amusing. I was in Maranello, Italy, in a Cadillac CTS-V Wagon. I needed some oil, so I stopped at a service station. As I had the hood up, a mechanic comes out of the service bay. He was in his late-fifties,…

You didn’t even mention my favorite part of the car, the slide out trunk-drawer. The information on this car is out there, it’s just in print format. This picture is from my copy of Exotic Cars Quarterly, Summer 1991 issue. They did a full article on the car.

You probably don’t need windows to ride in an autonomous car, but they make it more comfortable. When they designed the B-1A, they didn’t include windows for the two rear crew stations. It made the crew members claustrophobic and airsick. So, when they redesigned the airplane for the B-1B, they added two small windows.

The idea that “trained professionals” are required to operate a gas pump boggles my mind, but the quality of the attendants, at least in New Jersey, doesn’t come close to professional.

I imagine you’re right. Cadillacs in general were a rare sight in Europe, even ones that were sold there, like the BTS. And I agree with you on the cargo space. Even my V-Wagon is a bit limited in that department, given how tapered the rear of the car is.

The X-Bow (pronounced ‘cross-bow’ not ‘ecks-bow’, just a reminder)

I beg to differ. I mean, given the numbers, they barely existed in America, but I came across this one with Swiss plates while I was in Germany. To make things better, it was only a few feet meters from where I saw an E61 M5 for the first time.

They’ve got you covered.

I got caught in the wrong car during an unexpected late snow storm. On Michelin PS2s, no less. It worked out better than I expected.

I had that intermediate shaft failure happen (as I mentioned in another article today), although instead of the U-joint, the shaft just worked its way off the column while I was driving. It’s a bit unnerving when your driving along and your steering wheel just stops working.

When I was in high school, I got a hand-me-down 1981 Chevy Malibu wagon from my dad. At the time, he was taking his cars to a local mechanic for maintenance, who, in retrospect, wasn’t all that careful about how he did his work.

At some point, he had needed to remove the intermediate steering shaft, and apparently…

Is it possible for one car to break an entire study?

What doesn’t?

These guys had the right idea. This picture was taken in Adenau, Germany, only a few hundred feet from the Nürburgring. All three were from the Corvette club of Norway.