The Unipower GT is my favorite odd-ball English car. It’s the best.

Rented a Renault Logan in Brazil, not a bad car but that engine had no flywheel effect, very easy to stall.(My DD a the time was a manual). Others who drove the car said the same thing. Also rented a Brazilian version of the Panda, nice car too. But yeah, on a fast stretch of highway that thing was turning 4000+ rpm.…

I specifically requested a manual transmission rental car while I was in Italy. Instead, they hand me the keys to an automatic XC60. I showed them the original paperwork which had the box for manual checked, and a personal note in the special request category saying, “I want a 3-pedal manual.”

Back in 2001, my family and I went on a trip to the UK for two weeks. The first week in East Anglia was fine as we really didn’t need a rental car, but the second week we planned to drive west and see Bath and Wales and then make our way back to London. The first night at our hotel in Cardiff the car was broken into…

It’s a good excuse to post Taxi’s intro.

Between that rescue, the inevitable rust from all that saltwater exposure, and whatever other damage (electrical gremlins) all that water did to the Jetta, this is going to be expensive.

i mean it’s lipstick on a pig w/ a ferrari v8. right now a tesla is a fuckin huge vegan cellphone w/ a cute 0-60 time.

You Amuricans are funny. Anyone in Europe can drive stick. Some of my friends are even afraid to drive auto.

While I basically agree, I will add that I'm no fan of Google's business practices either. Apple = pay a lot of money, but at least they *promise* good support and privacy and the devices are good, Google = pay somewhat less money, get very tweakable, but otherwise so-so devices, while they invade the hell out of…