All 4 way signalized intersections should be replaced with roundabouts. And if you can’t figure them out, you should not be driving.

It also says later in the book that Stuart pulls into a gas station and gets a fill up via eye dropper. More evidence it was a real car. 

Just tack on one of those box taillights you love so much! 

I’m glad to know that I’m not the only one that the new Camry’s cut line/fake vent nonsense bothers the s$&!t out of...

The implausibly long cranked shift lever was a feature on other Chrysler’s of the 1970’s. I learned to drive stick on a 1976 Plymouth Volare wagon. The throw on that lever was so long your elbow hit the back of the bench going into 2nd and 4th. 

The subway in Paris runs on rubber wheels. 

And it is because of this trademark— the Model T equipped with front skis— that the term “Snowmobile” was not officially applied to the original predecessor of today’s off-road snow machines until much later, these original snow machines having to settle for the far more awkward term “motor toboggan” http://www.eliason…

Own a Highland green with saddle interior and tan top. Definitely!

I had one as a rental car in the Swiss Alps in October (the diesel, but still). Damn near the best driving week of my life.  

Isn’t it time the destination  fee went away as a separate line  item? What purpose does it serve at this point? 

The’res a farm themed attraction in northern Indiana that has a series of groaner billboards and roadside signs along I-65, although the execution is somewhat better than South of the Border.  Who can pass up a roadside attraction that features among it’s delights a “Birthing Barn” where you can actually watch a calf…

So do the switches in Chicago.  The kerosene rope is for places where the gas heaters aren’t present.

The parade at the end is a thing of beauty! I can just imagine the employees at the debut of this film cheering when their product marches out. Here’s the link if you want to start watching only when the parade starts.

When everything about today’s consumption trends is aspirational, there’s nothing appealing about owning a brand you associate with your parents or grandparents. The only exception to this is when a product is co-opted by the Instagram/social media culture, which explains the enduring appeal of the Escalade, which is…

I look at that dashboard (and everything back to the B-pillars) in the current generation Imprezas and have a seizure. There’s just so many things going on- seams, inserts, different materials, swoopy lines going every which way-- it’s like they designed 3 different dashboards and then said, “We can’t decide, let’s…

My daughter saw a gold TR7 like the one in the picture parked on the street the other day and she said: “Ugh, it looks like an E-Cigarette!”

The basic mathematical simulation models for the SR-71 and the space program are still in use to this day— we can just iterate faster. This plane was an absolute beauty. I count myself privileged to have seen one in flight at the EAA convention in 1989.  

The oil actually had to be heated before they can put it in the plane because it was practically solid at ambient temperature.

Dear Mr. Musk:

I like roundabouts in general-- have never seen one like this-- great solution to the space problem.