BTW, speaking of lifted stances, anybody got a chart showing and naming the different varieties? I can’t find one. Surely someone’s taken the time to distinguish modest lift kits from all-out brodozers? Read more

Stance is just how a car sits. There are different varieties of stance (some better than others), but EVERY car has a stance. You’ve got lifted stances, lowered stances... Stance is just too broad of a term to narrow down to one variety.

First thing that came to mind while watching that Mercedes video:

They would have called it the One Colon One, but that name was already taken.

Before I start, allow me to personally apologize to my boss, Patrick George, who begged for my next car to not be a Jeep, so that I could stretch my skills as a writer and mechanic. Read more

They do catering, does that count? Read more

I don’t mind the Wilhelm when it’s in the background, partially obscured by an explosion or something. But this one was way too noticeable. Read more

Firenze’s has pizza... and the BEST RIBS IN TOWN! Read more

*Orchestra plays, swells*
THE HILLS ARE ALIIIIIIVE WITH THE SOUND OF V12... Read more

Maybe. When it comes to determining where the flame front began, I’m not sure if we can rely on the video’s poor resolution to look for a flash through the (tinted?) closed windows. Everything seems to happen all at once after that freeze-frame. Read more

Yeah, it sure does look like the ignition source was in the front of the vehicle.

I have a love/hate relationship with the one at 14 & Farmington. It goes from one lane, to two, to three forward lanes, back down to two, back to one, all in the space of about a quarter mile. (The outer lanes can also be used for turning, but they are still legitimate thru-lanes.) The way it relaxes traffic only to… Read more

The ’90s was a great decade for country music. Clint Black, Randy Travis, Travis Tritt, Martina McBride, Joe Diffie, Tim McGraw... Read more

Conspicuously absent from the video: proper use of signals when using roundabouts. Read more

Thank you for that link. That thread explains a lot. Read more

Have you tried the grape stuff?

Close! Olds Read more

Yeah, they do look baggy. That’s an easy fix, though- buttons!

So is the Super Crown supposed to turn its wearer into “a” princess, or “the” Princess? Makes sense that an item with a name like that would simply bestow the wearer with some special royal abilities, but turning them human seems like a stretch. Read more

How bad was the shoulder, really, that she was so insistent on (eventually) stopping in a bank parking lot instead? Lemme guess- the bank was already on her list of errands, wasn’t it. ...and hypermiling was so important to her that she was trying to minimize her stops. Read more