Probably a typo. The one that gets me is the use of “lead” when “led” is intended. 

Yes, all dads hate everyone. Very insightful.

In principle, a dealer can add a ton of value to the customer experience as you’ve described above. In practice, way too few of them add that value, and as the saying goes, one bad apple spoils the bunch (let alone 99 out of 100 bad apples). Car dealers have been shitting on customers for so long, they don’t deserve…

I’d go further and say dealer salespeople not only don’t add value, they detract from the experience. No car salesperson has ever seen a potential customer walking up and thought, “how can I help this person?” No, their instinctive thought is, “how can I screw this person over to raise my commission?”

There was a link in there, but looks like it got Kinja’ed out. Just search “pioneer nex parking brake bypass” on eBay.

I have not installed this specific system, but have recently installed a pioneer system and you can use a bypass harness that takes care of the parking brake actuation

““The worst car for a city is the car you most love, independent of the price.”

Good write-up. I had a 2001 Integra GS-R and my wife had a 2002 RSX. Loved those cars and have had little interest in an Acura since then. This car is intriguing.

Boxster S gets my vote because it’s the one in my garage and an excellent driver’s car.

We’ll see how many of the base model are actually available, but at least Nissan puts the same engine in both models. That was true when I bought my 350z nearly 20 years ago. I bought the base model.

I think faced with the possibility that you might fail if you try and the certainty that you will die if you don’t, I bet you’d give it a shot.

You would think this would be true about big, public layoffs, but any layoff still carries a stigma of, “yeah, but not everyone got laid off, so why did they pick you?” 

No direct experience with the DeLorean, but agree on the Fiero. By the latter years of its run, Pontiac had the Fiero figured out, and even the early years - my buddy had a 1985 or ‘86 in high school with the Iron Duke - the handling was far beyond any other economy-priced commuter car.

Don’t leave out Honda. The 80s was a golden era for Honda. I’d also say the 80s at its worst was better than the post-1972 70s. 

Naming oddities aside, I still think the CLS and A7 are great looking.

Probably not your expected response, but the dumbest thing I’ve installed on my cars are cheap brake rotors. They warp if it sprinkles on a partly sunny day.

Fun watch. Would have been even better if they’d have gotten Tom Cruise to play Checo.

“These days it’s getting to be that the cool editions like this 1984 Tercel SR5 wagon are getting fewer and farther between.”

Well said. Came here to make the same counterpoint about the lakefront-wasting airports for the 1-percenters like Burke.

This is spectacular.