Northern Michigan, where most of these speed limits were raised, had a very arduous cold, snowy winter last year. I’d wager that was a bigger factor than the speed limit change.

Yeah, of course speeds rose. Most of the freeways in Northern Michigan (the ones that got raised to 75) are comfortable at 100-110 cruising speed. There aren’t that many other motorists, they’re wide, and not arduous under ordinary conditions.

Sad, but true.  Many manual offerings over the past couple decades suffer from it.  

Ah yes, the person who wants us to believe they did no stupid or crazy shit ever in their life.  Sorry, ain’t buyin’ it, heck off with your fake moral busybody nonsense. 

I discovered Rush when I was in high school in the late ‘90s, courtesy of hearing Freewill on the radio and my dad’s classic rock collection. The sound was so different than anything else, and the lyrics were so much more thought-provoking than anything else I’d heard. I listened to more, and I was hooked.

Star for posting Red Barchetta.  If I could, I’d offer several more for posting on this, the day of Neil Peart’s passing.  

Ding, exactly. My 30-something brother-in-law bought a souped-up muscle-car era (1970 IIRC) Duster and ended up in the hospital within a week.  Back in the time, when “that’s how it was” and the cars hadn’t been modded to hell and back, I can see how someone might have made it through (although all the gearheads that…

My X-Type, which the XE replaced, was a 5-speed with the 3.0 and full-time AWD. If it wasn’t starting to succumb to rust I’d have put some money into it and kept running it. That car was a ton of fun to drive-took it down the Tail of the Dragon last year and had an absolute ball! Great balance of power and handling…

I, oddly, find myself understanding the gist of your argument against the F-Type here. I just bought a 2017 Jaguar XE 35t R-Sport. With just the supercharged V6 and automatic, that car feels too fast. I don’t know if it’s because it’s my first automatic in 15 years or that it’s legitimately way faster than my X-Type…

“My take is that IP laws are bad. Bad for people. They’re great for making the rich richer but fuck everyone else. People were making music and inventing things before patents and copyrights and they’d continue if they went away.”

I still think fondly of mine and wonder if I was wrong to trade it in (for a 2014 Fiesta ST). It was an ‘06 with the manual that I bought brand new in ‘06. Thing did 8 years and 144,000 miles for me and was a great little car. Hauled bikes and everything else. Made a great mobile hotel. Zippy enough. Not the best on…

“Old ass” = debuted in 2013.  That’s not old.  Also, the fundamental platform is sound-good space utilization, good handling attributes, etc., so there’s no reason to axe it at this point.  Refresh the damned car that’s basically the same as the 2013s were, and they’d ramp those sales back up over 250k easily. 

Serious question:  If they have the big sign that lights up with “Overheight-Must Turn,” presumably when some series of sensors detects an overheight vehicle, why couldn’t they also install a gate arm that comes down?  Seems like a big gate like a railroad crossing gate might help convince the drivers they need to…

The Fords were right there too.  The 5.0 in my ‘95 F-150 has 212,000 miles on it.  Last year I ran a compression test to see if it was worth doing some other work that was coming up.  ~150 PSI, with only 4% variation between high and low.  Made 195 hp from the factory, and it’ll keep making that same 195 hp until the…

There’s so much great happening in that one picture of the two Rams and the Ramcharger on the trailer.  The best looking trucks of the ‘80s, all just doing truck stuff.  Fuck yeah! 

I’m convinced that the orders came down from the top that the guards were to take a break, cut off the cameras, get something to eat offsite, maybe even have a bit of sake, you know, for their health and well-being. Of course, once they were full and returned to their posts, Ghosn had Ghone, and *of course* there’s an…

My husband’s on his second Taurus now, this one a 2017.  He had a 2017 Fusion between the two Taurii.  I genuinely do not understand how people think the Taurus has no room in it.  It’s a huge car, inside and out.  No, it doesn’t have room like a Lincoln Town Car, but it absolutely feels bigger inside than that Fusion…

Read “Car: A Drama of the American Workplace” by Mary Walton. Great book, easy read-it is the backstory of the development of the third-gen Taurus.

My husband’s on his second Taurus now, the first a 2013, this one a ‘17 that he bought to replace the ‘17 Fusion that just got totaled. Really don’t understand when people go on about space in the Taurus. It is a bigger car, in every dimension including interior, than that Fusion was, and it feels more substantial as…

Oh I dunno, I think the New Guy memes were a) more original and b) earlier than Tom Hanks at an irrelevant event making a face.