My office is a few blocks from the park where they shoot off the Rockville fireworks. There’s a band and party of some sort at the actual park but my wife and I are probably just going to scoot to the roof of the parking garage at my office like 20 mins before the fireworks are scheduled and avoid all that hubbub. 

On the DC Beltway in Maryland, there are electronic signs that have been saying “DC EVENT 7/4, EXPECT DELAYS” for the last several days. Except I have a feeling there will be way fewer people than usual, because the Trump admin has kept the DC government totally in the dark about what’s going on with their little pagea…

Road America and Elkhart Lake are just wonderful. One of my favorite places from when I lived in Wisconsin. 

I’m fairly certain slavery has been illegal for a while now.

I was all up in the import scene for a few years before F&F came out. I rolled up to see it in the theater in my cheaply modified red ’92 Integra GS-R. It was cheesy as hell, the decals on the cars were egregious, and they screwed up the tech jargon many, many, many times. But I didn’t care, because it spoke to me,…

When they were new the Prelude was more expensive than the Integra for equivalent trims (i.e. Integra GS-R vs. Prelude VTEC). 

You forgot to mention the 2ZZ engine in the GT-S in all the pics and videos here. It was a high-revving 1.8 liter that made between 173 and 180 hp depending on application.

The best wheel repair shop in my town is called Eurobeatwheels.

To that point, Subaru also loves cheaping out on OE tires. The very first time we drove that Impreza in the snow, it was all over the road thanks to the awful Yokohama S34D OE tires. I tried it one more time and then said screw it, we need proper tires for this thing. Luckily since they were practically brand new I…

My wife had a 2016 Impreza that was mostly trouble free, except the one time it went totally haywire while she was driving on a 2-lane road in rural Wisconsin. It shut off, she got it to the side of the road, and it refused to turn back on. It blinked some transmission faults or something at her on the screen(s).

Come on BMW, give us Android Auto dammit.

In the film days there were still cameras and movie cameras. Both used film. This is a film movie camera. 

Indeed. This also bugged me! A video camera uses an image sensor to convert moving images into data. A movie camera captures moving images on film.

Point of the article is that the specific stuff that automakers claim AA sends back to Google is not quite as extensive as they claim. Not that Google isn’t collecting some data.

This was an incorrect rumor spread by Toyota as an excuse for why they didn’t get off their ass and implement Android Auto. Google refuted it back in 2015.

Toyota & BMW, collaborating on everything including still not friggin supporting Android Auto. 

I’m also a big GLA45 fan.

The Clubman & Countryman weigh a lot more than the 2-door hardtop, but not much more than a Golf R.

The M2 is a 6-cylinder rwd 2-door coupe with a marginally usable back seat. Sure it’s in the same price/performance ballpark, but it’s kind of its own thing vs. the RS3 and A45 with their transverse 4-cylinders, awd, back doors, and back seats that fit normal size adults.

Mercedes and Audi both seem to think there’s a market for both regular hot and extra-spicy versions of their transverse 4 cylinder cars. But I’m not sure how many people are buying luxury brand 400 hp Mitsubishi Evo equivalents.