A friend had a beige Chevette when I was in high school. It may very well be the worst car I’ve ever been in.

The right answer is to give your kid whatever you’ve been driving, and get yourself something new. My 5-year-old already knows he’ll be driving a 21-year-old Tacoma one day and Dad will be driving something fast again. ;-)

having grown up in a town full of rich people in the 80's (and near NYC), there were a lot of kids who got Z28s and Trans Ams on their 16th birthday (often before they even had a license). many of them were totaled before their 17th.

I grew up in the school district where Sung Myung Moon’s family lived, and his son…

This is the automotive equivalent of a mystery box or loot box that all the kids are fond of these days..... Basically a roll of the dice. Yeah, it could just take some small service items and run like a dream, or it could be a total mess and require double what you paid for it to get it running. Are you feeling…

You’re kind of underselling what a fuck up this almost was.  The stock was trading around $22.  Had the deal not been approved, the SPAC would have simply returned the $10 they originally received for each share to the shareholders -- so the holders would have lost over half of the value.

How did I never see the smiling dolphin that is the front of this thing? Not that that’s bad, I’ll take smiling dolphin over angry fish mouth anytime.

My front neighbor got his pilot license last year, bought a Piper Cherokee and I flew with him with his instructor for a few hours round trip. At some point his navigational skills were off so he was heading nearly 60 degrees off path for 5 minutes before the instructor chimed in essentially saying “You’ve been off…

Tires. Don’t buy the cheap Chinese/Taiwanese tires that are extremely hard and increase your braking distance. They lack grip and tend to handle abysmally in the rain. There’s plenty of cheap tires made by proper tire manufacturers you should buy instead if you’re working with a limited budget.

I love Harbor Freight for what it is, but it’s definitely hit-or-miss. I have some amazing tools from there - like a $25 2-in-1 brad nailer/stapler that I’ve probably put 25,000 fasteners through without one jam. But I’ve also bought the worst set of spade and Forstner bits I’ve ever used - completely dull. Replaced…

Except this happened in Canada, so I’m imagining more of a Bob and Doug McKenzie dialogue...

This episode of Drive to Survive is going to be LIT.

None of us can quite grasp the panic Torch must have felt after damaging his favorite part of his most cherished vehicle.
I’m glad to see that he was able to fix them.
Although, obtaining replacement Pao tail lights would have made a great series of articles.

I vote Mazda3. Our ‘14 has been good to us, it’s a great little commuter and fun to boot. I wouldn’t hesitate to buy another. It’s now my DD and I’m returning 41.5 mpg, but before that it was always around 35.

Also true, but them’s the rules.

And the loud exhaust, pointing mostly behind them doesn’t help at all.

The key difference now is that almost half the country is fine if it literally burned to the ground. So long it was their side that carried the torches.

Look here people, if you want to be free from liability for your customers hurting or killing people just make or sell guns. (snark and joke) 

Can the state be culpable for providing the highway on which  the accident occurred?

I’m going to get flamed into the ground for this, but I actually don’t mind seeing these spaceflights. It is cool to see the progress that is being made on it despite the progress not being THAT useful for more than tourism for those that can afford the ticket price, but it will eventually lead to more useful things…

Maybe it’s Electrek, maybe it’s Maybelline....