Any survey that tells me Dodge has the best quality in the industry is absolutely not “as good a snapshot as any on where manufacturers’ build quality currently stands.”

There is no purer, simpler, or more wholesome pleasure in this world than putting your keys in the ignition and starting your car.

I realize much of this issue has to do with property values, but I’d like to pose this question: Why is it that a broken car reduces property values? (Particularly if those cars aren’t dangerous or leaky in any way). Why do people see broken (but safe) cars as “ugly”?

Ultimately, it seems like a socioeconomic thing.…

I’ve had good experience with Tire Rack themselves in the past, but be wary of which installer you use. I once chose one based purely on location and convenience, not knowing the shop’s shitty reputation and ended up having to get everything re-balanced and aligned at another because they did not only did a shit job,…

I’ve had good experience with Tire Rack themselves in the past, but be wary of which installer you use. I once chose…

I actually snorted a little at Fred & Shaggy. Did not see that one coming, but holy shit it has my vote all week long and twice on Sundays.

Yeah I’m with Torch. If the question is best cars” and nothing else, it’s the Southwest by a mile. I don’t necessarily love all of the aspects of the local car culture (though even that is largely because there’s so much car culture that of course there are some parts of it I’m not into), but just for the preservation…

Yeah, “enthusiast-owned sports car with an aftermarket supercharger” is the absolute polar opposite of “owned by a little old lady who only drove it to church on Sundays.” This thing has been driven hard. Which is great! It’s what the car was made for. Love that. But even allowing for the fact that enthusiasts on…

Seriously. He’s one of those people that whenever I see his name in my news feed, it’s like a breath of fresh air. Human decency, empathy, humility, reason, and common sense: he basically consistently offers up everything that somehow disappeared from the a huge swath of the rest of the world somehow over the last…

Real talk: I tried re-reading it again a year or so ago and actually had to put it down, simply because our current reality feels even more surreal. Modern America made Catch-22’s absurdism seem understated. (But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s still one of my two or three favorite books of all time.)

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Even knowing and having dealt with many of the potential headaches of that vintage BMW, that price seems too good to be true. I have two young kids and a demanding job and have been planning putting off the purchase of a project/fun/weekend car for a few years at least. But hell, even with that said I’d buy this thing…

sTiCk tO SpRoTs

My God, his apology was the fucking worst. I didn’t think anything could be more irritating than the original bullshit statement but man, he managed to one of himself. “It breaks my heart.” Get the fuck out of here.

I have an irrational aversion to non-functional hood scoops/vents/louvres. In high school there were a handful guys who covered their cars in the kind of plastichrome faux performance shit you’d get from the discount parts bin at Pep Boys. Portholes, hood scoops, you name it. The worst thing was they weren’t bad guys,…

I will just never get over the fact that 2020 Republicans chose an anti-fascist protest group as their boogeyman of choice. That continues to say everything you need to know about the American right.

Pretty much the only thing that is singularly amazing about Trump is how he continually tops himself for how fucking awful he is. My expectations for Trump are “always be the worst possible person and do things the worst possible way.” And yet, even with those expectations, Trump still manages, on practically a daily…

Ah, sweet, we’re into the “dipshits offer lukewarm pleas for civility, and the implicit argument that a few thousand bucks in property damage is equivalent to a few hundred years of institutional racism, so let’s just call it a wash and let’s all settle down” portion of proceedings. Cool. Least surprising thing of…

It’s been said before but it’s always worth repeating: no acquisitions editor worth his or her salt would fucking touch a manuscript with a character written like Trump. He’s just the shittiest, laziest caricature of a shitty, lazily-written character in a shitty, poorly-planned made-for-late-night 90s cable sci-fi TV…

This was my first thought: Trump’s reaction to this is going to be delightful. First he’ll do exactly as you say, he’ll claim that Floyd was very thankful and said he looked forward to voting for Trump again. Then ten minutes later he’ll post another tweet complaining about how disrespectful and ungrateful and un-Ameri…

Man, we can’t connect socially during this crap, so being able to do so virtually—even (or perhaps: especially) with a complete stranger anonymously—is kind of a necessary thing. We’re all people, we’re all going through this together, and connecting with each other is the only way we’re going to come out of this…