An hour on the GSP teaches you more about situational awareness and car control than a weeklong course at Skip Barber.

Truth. The only argument I really have against the Toyobarus is the motor...that FA24 has me pretty concerned in the reliability department, even as I keep looking at the trunk of the current Miata and wondering where on earth I’d fit anything on a trip.

That last sentence just about sums it up. The difference between a neglected Toyota and a well-maintained Toyota hardly means anything when both will get to 200k+.

Merchants Auto in New Hampshire pulls this exact shit on a scale of like 2000+ cars. They can go right to hell.

Ding ding ding. A $50K car may not be much in the grand scheme of luxury sport sedans, but treating a serious adult buyer (coming in on a scheduled appointment, no less) like a 16 year old who showed up with two of their friends the day after they got their license to go on a joyride?

Huh! I was wondering what car the Soleidad Wendover that was just added to beamNG Drive was based off of - this looks like a ringer.

I found out about the acronym nearly 18 years ago, about the time I watched this show and loved it. I cannot believe the joke flew over my head since.

Not gonna lie, the thought of a Ridgeline with a 4.7L V8 derived from the J35 V6 block makes me feel new things in strange places.

“This trip should have been a Teams meeting” happened to me twice even before COVID. After I wasted 4 days on the road for the first one I took some flak for teleconferencing into the second. Big surprise - the three day “workshop” they arranged to get everyone in the same room and hammer out a project’s design spec w…

As a huge Saturn nerd I have but one correction to point out - Pepsiman was an unlockable character in (the Japanese version of) Fighting Vipers, not Fighters Megamix.

Man, I would absolutely rock one of these for everything local.

I, for one, welcome the real-life equivalent of a Forza race on Xbox Live.

Can confirm - there’s a lot of incredible hackery that went on in the early and mid 2000s to compress >700MB games down to CD-R standards.

He’s gotta be one of those guys who gets annoyed his Model S doesn’t get let into car shows anymore.

I’d totally buy a roll of Confederate flag TP

> 7. Never trust your life to one of their jacks.

Yeah, there’s a second controller port for the games that support it. The “integrated” controller is the same as any other - there’s a couple grooves on both sides of the controllers that you can slot into the system then flip-up to store one away. Clever design for its time.

YES! I was waiting for this ever since you posted a preview on your Twitter a while back. I ended up getting one just a few months ago, saved from being driven off to a landfill by literally about half an hour, and it’s a wonderful little game system.

Seconded for the S80. My late father was a sales rep that spent 30+ hours a week driving between sales calls all over the Northeast. For 20 years all he ever leased were Volvo S80s - he'd driven dozens of BMWs, Infinitis, Acuras, you name it, but he never felt more energized after a long drive than he did getting out…

To add - I can’t remember where I read it (it might’ve been here on Jalopnik for all I know), but a teardown of the 1.8 V6 shows it was a highly overbuilt motor that was suspected to have been a homologation special for a racing effort that was canceled around the time the bubble era burst.