Ok, you can hear that something is very, very wrong before the Porsche even comes into view. That's your chance to back up away from the guardrail a bit, and quickly.

Even really great racers can make a mistake.

>Every Friday night there is a car show at the Dave & Busters parking lot in Farmingdale, NY

Woo-hoo! I feel so special, I got TL;DR'ed!

Mine has to be from two Christmases ago, a two hour trip between my parent's house in southeastern Wisconsin and my husband's parent's place in north central Wisconsin.

Clean up in Aisle Alfa, please. Clean up in aisle Alfa.

>There is something appealing about elegant minimalism.

Probably. I'm about an hour outside of any city of even moderate size, in the land of F-150s and Cummins diesels, surrounded by hundreds of acres of biodiesel and crapthanal fields (soybeans and corn, respectively.)

I have a hard time with it, too. I don't think it does teens any favors AT ALL to *give* them a car. But then again, I think most parents these days suck at parenting, so...

We're in very (culturally, socioeconomically) different areas of the central Midwest, then.

It wasn't the fault of the GPS.

The man is 6'-5".

Wrong.

Oh, gosh, what a mess. Hahahaha.

No, no, no. It gets dumped on the gravel driveway, to keep the weeds down.

We use them on two of our cars. In our defense, we change oil more frequently than the current recommendations of oil-change intervals.

All the comments and the various model-specific addenda below are really making me love my Mercedes W201 even more.

>another is to run the motor, double checking all seals

Someone's already beaten us to it, I think.

MINI's 10 year Development plan: