I’m just tired of driving boring cars in the winter because I’m afraid to rust out cool ones.

I’ve decided I’m going to drive cool cars all year round; life is too short.

I’m just going to make sure that the cool cars I drive in the winter are already too far gone. Yes, this Valiant has good main frame rails, but… Read more

The shirt and pants were the only clean clothes I had left after the road trip. Read more

Listen here, kid. I’m gonna need you to grab that feeler gauge over there and set the points gap while I drain the rear diff. Read more

Bring it. Read more

Timing chains shouldn’t need maintenance after anything under 200,000 miles, and my friend's clutch hydraulics shouldn't have failed anytime within the first five years of ownership. It's just sad.  Read more

Feel it in your heart. Read more

Sure, though whether Jason knew beforehand that the car had been poorly engineered doesn’t take away from my point that...the car had been poorly engineered. Read more

They are great cars when they work! Read more

Yes, yes I do. Read more

One was a new GTI that within three years lost all clutch hydraulics, leaving my friend stranded on the highway unable to depress the clutch.

One was my colleague Jason Torchinsky’s wife’s Tiguan, a 2011 vehicle whose engine literally blew up despite being meticulously maintained.

Two of my friends had Touaregs, and… Read more

What you need is some Pennzoil Synchromesh: my go-to. Read more

I just know far too many people who have been burned. Read more

I appreciate you watching that!

I just think saying someone is an “XYZ hater” is essentially writing them off as someone unable to think critically about the topic due to their own blinding biases. Torch doesn’t fall into that camp. Read more

Jason is not a Tesla hater. Stop with the nonsense. Read more

For the record, I put that term in there (I think Torch had the term "traffic" in two consecutive sentences, which doesn't read well). So it’s on me. (Sorry Jason!). Read more

It really makes no sense... Read more

...we really should stick with metric units. Read more

Right. Oddly google says a cwt is 112 lbs! (which makes little sense given what the “c” represents). It’s a fair point. Read more

I’ll admit that I sometimes use synthetic or synthetic blend oils in my winter vehicles. Read more

I’ve driven MORE in the last two years. I put around 5-10K on my J10 and manual ZJ. The rest get just a thousand or two. Read more