I’m not sure I’d call wrenching fun. Maybe more like satisfying after a job well done. Learn how to care for your own car so you can keep it in tip top shape, really understand what’s going on in there so you don’t get snowed by sleazy greedy mechanics, upgrade with parts that you have personally selected and…

I miss driving a stick. Most guys back in high school drove old American muscle cars with 3 speed slush boxes but a good friend of mine in high school had a 1975 Civic CVCC with a 5 speed manual that I thought was the funnest thing in the world to drive. That’s where I learned to drive stick and the first real car…

Bay Area? There are people willing to sell their current Tesla model 3 reservations for a couple thousand dollars. So for around $40k you can have a brand new model 3. Need more space? Older model S’s are now dipping under $40k. But if I lived 1 mile from work I would get a bicycle, Uber locally and rent when…

Feeling a little sensitive Russ? Nothing that winning a championship wouldn’t solve. KD, Harden and Ibaka weren’t good enough teammates to win it all? Fine, you got yourself PG13, Melo and Adams. But if you keep losing even with all that talent then at some point you have to look in the mirror and ask yourself who…

If I have access to 16 corn dogs at work, I would probably eat one or maybe two and allow others to share the rest because it would create a better work environment where everyone feels like they are important valued members of the team instead of having one selfish individual pigging up all the attention and corn…

If you watch Jason’s video he explains it, the typical luxury car buyer doesn’t care if their product lasts beyond the warranty or leasing period because they’ll dump it after 3 years and go buy the latest and greatest new one. The car manufacturer also doesn’t care because they’ve already been paid their $150k and…

A reminder that driving cars are a recent phenomena for most Chinese citizens. Twenty years ago nobody drove cars there. This person is truly a first rate card carrying prime example of a brain cell deficient moron with absolutely no common sense but is probably new to driving and just purchased their first car so…

Complexity is bad in an older car yes. I think that one is pretty obvious. But I think it’s also bad design combined with crazy expensive parts. If something goes wrong with a Subaru, you buy a cheap part off EBay or go for a moderately priced part at the dealer and you can probably wrench it yourself. No big deal.

I would be careful about asking a starter to throw relief between starts. Sure in high leverage situations in the playoffs I think you can justify running Bumgarner or Kershaw out there for a couple of innings if it gives you a chance at a championship. But in early April for a 50 degree night game against the A’s? …

So what happened to all the experts who were saying he should start his career at single A in the minors?

Not to worry guys, thanks to the Trump Trade Wars, China’s new 25% tariff on American made cars will help save the Korean car industry. Everyone will want to produce cars headed to China in overseas factories saving thousands of Korean and Chinese jobs. Well done.

So we’re in agreement, this world isn’t ready for totally automated self-driving cars.

Tsk tsk Joel, now you’re going to have to start a popup brothel business in your parents home to pay for the car repairs. Just watch out for Guido the killer pimp.

I think you’re missing the point. In a perfect world we would have perfect roads with perfectly striped pavement and perfect visibility so self driving car cameras can see perfectly down the road. But we don’t, it’s impossible for these cars to operate under perfect conditions all the time so as more of these things…

Weird.

Find yourself a nice well maintained low mileage 7 or 8 year old 9-3 and a good independent Saab mechanic in North Carolina. Probably still cheaper to repair and maintain than buying a new car, especially when you factor in depreciation, insurance, taxes and registration. A good mechanic should still be able to…

OK I see what’s going on. The car is tracking the adjacent lane line for the carpool lane to the left because the left side lane marker for the lane that the Tesla is driving in is faded and the autopilot can’t see it.

I like it. I hated the original Panamera and the redesign did little more for me. But this thing! It’s insane, it’s bizarre, it’s as if Porsche designers went to the back shed and did some peyote before scribbling this little beauty onto the back of a napkin and decided what the hell let’s build it. And it’s…

The Westbrook stat stuffing glory ball pig show is probably good for 47 wins again because if you don’t pass the ball then the it really doesn’t matter who your teammates are does it?