ALL THE STARS. Read more

Have a nice day. Read more

LATE AAAAPEX! Read more

One of the cool things about the XL250 is that since it was phenomenally popular back in its day, there’s a sizable online community devoted to keeping them running up to the point of posting PDF files of scanned owner’s manuals and such online. Read more

Just for historical perspective, there’s two people getting it on while “The Tonight Show” is on in the background in the first chapter of Harold Robbins’s late-’70s sleaze-pulp epic “Dreams Die First.” Read more

Right. I was seriously thinking about buying a project-grade one of these a few weeks ago. Read more

Junior gets lifetime membership on my “I want to buy this man a beer” list. Read more

I’d still rather have a Scirocco. Read more

It’s like anything else in the world. Some people are going to do it right, some people are going to screw it up.

I somehow feel guilty that I actually like this thing. Yes, it’s kind of a creeping betrayal of the original Mini ethos, and it’s not like the world needs another crossover. Read more

All this. Read more

In the case of that particular father, yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Cuomo Read more

Say what you will about the man - and for the vast majority of New York citizens “mixed feelings” is about as positive as it gets - but he is a legit lifelong gearhead from fairly modest Queens roots. This isn’t that surprising. Read more

Okay, THAT’S where the first hit was. I’ve watched that ten times and took forever to figure out where the impact occurred. Read more

Maté and the rest of the Budapest staff got cut a while back. He’s over at Road & Track now. Read more

Actually looks like left elbow both times. RHP stands with left towards batter and everyone runs with left to the infield. Read more

Aw, c’mon. That’s the same night as the Tinariwen show at Brooklyn Bowl. Read more

Sportback or liftback are both cool here.

Little note for when someone is reviewing your traffic sources: I posted this as a comment over at the Washington Post. They went for it.