If you are seeing your own car in the side view mirrors you are positioning them wrong, haunches or no haunches.

I can’t believe this question even exists, much less makes the social media rounds every few months. You’re right, it should take no more than six seconds for someone to process this, and should require no diagrams, formulas, or goddamn life-size Mythbusters experiments.

No, it’s not.

Fichtner looks like he should be carrying a bat wrapped in barbed wire.

What a tragic, mangled mess.
And then he had the accident.

I’ll back you up. I’ve known about the front-mid-engine configuration for approx. 36 years — ever since, as a fifth grader, I longingly memorized the dealer brochure for the first-generation Mazda Rx-7, which made a point of it.

“chicken fingers and grilled cheese sandwiches are what parents want—it’s what they’d ask for if even there was no kids menu from which to order. Bull.”

I actually don’t find this hard to believe. I’ve seen enough parents take the path of least resistance, placating their “picky-eaters” with a steady diet of hot dogs…

“Regarding privacy, we built the app to run your computer...”

Well that’s ambitious.

I’m not sure yet if I’m going to run out and get a stainless steel pan, but I thoroughly enjoyed this piece, and hope to see Burneko write more about things that are not sports. Great stuff.

I’d also love to see links to explanations of common sub-processes, like cleaning & degreasing the engine compartment and cleaning up the battery tray. How it’s done, which products were used why, etc.

The previous Pilot had a boxy, sturdy, sure-footed appearance that reinforced the notion of safety and stability. The new design looks top-heavy and ungainly. I really don’t get Honda’s current styling direction. I’d like to own another Honda someday but the last attractive vehicle they made was the 2015 Accord.

I suspect these are the same people who cross the chevrons to merge into crawling freeway traffic as soon as they damn well possibly can — then have a self-righteous aneurysm if anyone dares to proceed to the marked merging zone and get ahead of them.

I like a dash knob for headlights, but the example shown with the article (a Ford design, I think) is terrible. Besides being faux-elegant ugly, it’s very hard to tell what position the switch is in through either visual or tactile means. If you can’t see the tiny position marker on the rim, you have to move the knob…

Torch, I’m a little freaked out. Driving home from work tonight I was tailgated by an F-150. I got to thinking about how the headlights were so recognizable and intimidating. Then I thought of how GM trucks have developed squinty, angry headlights like the Camaro. And how design in general is getting more and more…

I *want* to want this sooo bad — but apparently what I really want is the sleek, classy, Opel Insignia wagon. The stupid US-spec rubber cladding is as out of place as a vinyl roof. I wonder if it can be peeled off..?

I thought the daily sleep survey section wasn’t working at all, until I realized it was presenting me with survey questions in tiny, *tiny* black text on a dark navy background. WTH?

Sorry Jimmy, I was reading too much into your dad’s story.

You’re also right about J. Jonah Jameson. My boss was a cigar-chomping hothead, and re. “ask them to take their business to a competitor” I was leaving out the expletives ;)

I sold cars for a while and encountered people like your dad. We didn’t use bogus fees but people would still get apoplectic over legitimate expenses like destination charges, and demand that we delete the $70 factory floormats so they could get some cheap rubber ones at Walmart for their $30,000 sedan. 10 out of 10…

Everyone crying about this guy causing people to brake and slowing traffic: did you notice the long line of barely-moving traffic? That lane was fucked before he got there, and he had to figure out how to safely get into it.

Fine, he was technically in the wrong for crossing the white line, but I think his behavior…

Yeah, super useful, because every user of these signs is diligent about attaching and removing them according to the presence of an actual baby, and in a horrific accident the little plastic sign will remain hooked to the suction cup on a shattered window.