That’d be about the best time for it.

Hey, I’ve made that drive quite a lot. A few times non-stop, too. (I really shouldn’t do that.)  Do you take the southern route, or did you brave Chicago traffic?

I gotcha covered, at least for Europe. I did a little write-up after a trip in 2015.

I don’t think we got Fancy Kristen today. I think we got normal Kristen. I don’t think Fancy Kristen would care about a Toyota Corolla at all, let alone the cost of the seats.

Agreed.  I often find someone camped in the left lane.  Maybe 12 miles go by, and I’d really like to pass.  They finally get over and I start to smile, until I realize they are exiting the highway directly from the left lane.

Taking a racing line on a residential road to make a right hand turn, thus making all of us having to slow down (those of us going straight) vs. you getting over to the right in the hash marks of the bike lane to make your right and not impede the flow of traffic.

If you are SECOND waiting at the light PAY ATTENTION to the car in front of you AND the light and GO when the light turns green and the car in front of you moves.

The issue that most infuriates me is the tendency for cars in all lanes of the highway to match speed with each other. They form a wall across two, three or more lanes that creates a rolling no-passing zone. Of course, faster traffic collects behind them, so when one of them finally moves out of the way, it still…

When I lived in Michigan, I thought it was just Michigan drivers. Then I moved to Texas and thought it was just Texas drivers. Now I live in Pennsylvania, and those drivers are awful, too.

Came here to post this.  I saw one in the Porsche museum in Stuttgart a few years ago.

But what makes these billboards so awful now is the sheer number of them.

I do, fairly regularly. I’ve put spare tires on several people’s cars, and helped with other minor mechanical issues. The worst issue that I stopped for, though, was a Lexus SUV that was on fire on the side of the interstate. It was a small fire, so I called 911, grabbed my fire extinguisher from the trunk, and ran to…

...so we’d put headphones on when the other was playing, so that we wouldn’t see anything...

Don’t forget the integrated rear wing.  That made it into the fourth-generation Camaro, too.

I told the dealership I wasn’t in a crash, and the bags deployed during a hard left turn. They replaced all the necessary components under warranty.

...cars registering enough G forces to trigger Onstar’s crash alert system has happened before, notably in modified Cadillac CTS-Vs.

Pretty sure that’s a Lambo, dude.

“Supposed to.”

I got some of the last bumpers sold. I think the ‘96 Fleetwood was the last passenger car in the US with proper bumpers. I’ve replaced a couple of the bumper guards, but other than that, it’s been very sturdy. The V-Wagon, on the other hand, has had about $7,000 in repairs due to other people parking poorly.

Ah, I wrote that a bit poorly. If it’s permanently a installed component, that’s fine. What I meant was, if you have something like floor mats, you won’t have a problem, but even something like a suction mount phone holder shouldn’t be left in the car. The factory jack would be okay, but a toolbox or spares in the…