And Dodge, the muscle car brand, is not listed as one of the worst? WTF? All those Hellcat owners are safely driving while hooning?

Excuse me: Texas is not on the list?

And now that you’ve popped for big-ticket items, I’d be willing to bet you’ll be saving buku bucks over at least the next two years by addressing those issues.

The average car payment (half above the number, half below) for 2023 was $738.

Yes, electric motors have instant torque versus internal combustion engines having to build up torque so the ICE car can then accelerate. That advantage absolutely works to the electric motors’ ability at wiping ICE cars off the record books. It’s pure physics at work.

Keep the cars waxed. Your other maintenance tasks mentioned are continual.

You make an excellent point.  Go to the incredible (yet correct) trouble of decreasing the engine’s compression before slapping on the supercharger?  Yes, I doubt it 100% also.

My least favorite car on NPOND: the high-end Germanmobile that’s got some years on it—one of those cars where if something goes kerblooey, your credit card is gonna melt from the swiping it’ll take to fix it.

I feel like we’re arguing two sides of the same coin.

Too droll—thanks for sharing.

Ted Cruz: the conniving scumbag who will say anything if it keeps him in power. Being a complete hypocrite, a two-faced liar: not a problem. Here’s a politician who would rail against the Ivy League to his ignorant cracker audiences when he’s an Ivy League grad. A man who had a brief moment warning about Donald The…

Quite the artist half of the time—those still-lifes of flowers are incredible. Those portraits of black men with their dicks hanging out of their pants I can do without.

Regarding this gen of Volvos, that 1990 movie, Crazy People with Paul Reiser comes to mind. Reiser plays an advertising exec who has a nervous breakdown and gets into advertising truthfully. Thing is, they used real products in the movie’s ads. And there’s Reiser showing off a full-page Volvo ad: “Volvos. They’re boxy…

You’re confusing simple declarations with actual aesthetics.

It always creeped me out about visiting Burlington, Iowa and crossing the Mississippi River as a small child. The “pavement” of the bridge was thick grating—I assume so snow and ice could be more easily removed or accumulate less. When you travel across that bridge, the grating blurs and you literally feel like the…

No kidding...that was exactly my thought. And it’s actually happened—yeesh. If I was the passenger, I don’t believe I’d ever recover from what I experienced.

First World problems...so “awful” for you.

Pffftttt! All I see is a self-aggrandizing jerkoff seeing what kind of a braggart he can be as he smushes the Firebirds together. Really? This is his big “statement”?

A Boeing plane so the Jalopniks are busy pissing ‘n’ moaning...what a “shock”. So the questions are:

Crossing a bridge and for whatever reason: bridge collapses due to earthquake, a cargo ship runs into it, poor maintenance due to incompetent officials skimping on that work...whatever...and the car is thrown into the water.