When I was a kid I couldn’t understand why Dad didn’t share my obsessive fascination with exotics. Read more

Just about anything Jeff Buckley ever wrote is at least brilliant, and an unsettling percentage of it is otherworldly.

“Feed the Tree” is one of the most strangely peaceful songs about dying ever written. Read more

Matchbox was better - not as trashy, more connected to reality - back in the day. Lately, though, Matchbox has sort of become the neglected stepsister in the arrangement, which is just sad. Read more

Conversion factor works like this: How many moles do you usually pass as you’re driving along? Keep going faster until you pass 40 in an hour. Read more

Dead-centered my Mercedes 240D into a stout tree ealy one morning. Speed at impact was approaching 40 moles per hour. Read more

Best thing I’ve read in weeks. Cheers, man. Read more

Second-generation Honda CRX Si.

Mercedes E 350 wagon.

Screw the truck. That Miata is hawt. Read more

Not a perfect match, but as close as any:

Used but well-kept Ferrari 360 with the F1 gearbox. Available for well under $100K; use the balance for track-rat upgrades.

Beer is on me when you get back. Bon voyage. Read more

There’s a lot of overlap in that Venn diagram. And if I miss out on buying my would-be Spec 944 racer as prices shoot up before next summer, I’m blaming you personally. Read more

Sure. Read more

Well...

Since they’re French (at least by association), the more interesting question is what they’re wearing under the hazmat suits. Read more

Italian cars are red. Porsches are white or silver. Read more

The radio mouths may screech about how un-Constitutional the EPA is and politicians can get all sanctimonious about how we don’t need onerous regulations that are such a burden to good God-fearing American businessfolk, but fuck, it’s this kind of stupidity that makes laws more than necessary. Read more