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Monday, February 21st, 2011, in
Cars & Racing Random ThoughtsLet’s start off with what this is not: It is not scientific. It is not definitive. It is not perfect. And what it is: It is amateur. It is how I look at things. It is based on manufacturers’ numbers. There have been quite a few of these comparisons in the past by various news outlets and bloggers and anyone that felt like it. Thing is I don’t recall ever seeing the detail that I [...]
Friday, February 18th, 2011, in
Random ThoughtsIf you are any sort of car person or care the least bit about your car, there is one daily activity that may make you cringe… parking. Of course, it is not so much the act of parking (even though some people still can’t grasp parallel parking), it is more of those around you that care far less for their vehicles (and yours) to put any effort into parking properly. It’s not hard. There are [...]
Friday, August 20th, 2010, in
The Life of MeConsider this scenario… Someone wants to spend $28k at your car dealership and has money available. Do you… a) Try to help out, but put forth no actual effort? b) Do everything possible to accommodate and inform the buyer of options? c) Just blow the buyer off. You didn’t need that sale anyway. Let’s just say that if you pick A or C, I’m done doing business with you. Yes this related to my new [...]
Thursday, July 1st, 2010, in
Cars & RacingFigured today that it was time I actually drove some of these cars I’ve been pining over. I had my list… and figured it was as good a time as any to take some for a drive – even if I wasn’t buying today. I needed to narrow my list down and see what I did and did not like. Jen and I went up to Maguire in Ithaca after work today and I was [...]
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010, in
Cars & RacingMy tC will be going away. I’m not sure when yet, but it will. It has been good to me and a lot of fun – but I need to move on. I need to upgrade. More power, more fun… just something different. Whatever I end up with, I may even keep it mostly stock. Maybe just some minor cosmetic stuff (wheels? tint?). So far I’ve been working on a spreadsheet of possible options (as [...]
Monday, May 24th, 2010, in
Cars & Racing Random ThoughtsForgive my ramblings here… but whenever I think of what I want to be “when I grow up” – this is what always goes through my head. They say that if you try hard enough, you can have or be anything… I disagree. Not that someone should not be optimistic about things – because there are a lot of things people could do if they were to try. It’s just that the list is not [...]
Friday, March 26th, 2010, in
Random ThoughtsI’m from NY. When there’s bad traffic (elsewhere in NY, we don’t get bad traffic at home), people act like NY drivers. Pretty much get a lot of Fuck this guy, I’m not letting him in! Find another place to merge buddy. And various other issues when driving in traffic. NY drivers aren’t exactly what you would call “polite” in any sense of the word. It’s quite sad actually. I mean, most aren’t even nice [...]
Sunday, February 21st, 2010, in
Cars & RacingIf you do your own maintenance on your car – getting any of that done in the winter without a garage is next to impossible. If it’s not 10° outside, there’s snow on the ground or something. Thankfully today was one of the anomalies that allowed me to get some work done – using Jen’s parents driveway that is. It was about 40° today and sunny. Wasn’t going to pass that up. What did I [...]
Monday, February 15th, 2010, in
Cars & Racing Random ThoughtsOn my way to work I noticed a 2011 model year Hyundai on the lot of a local dealer. 2011. Why? This bothers me for a few reasons. Mainly… it’s not 2011. And by that I really mean that it is not even CLOSE to 2011. It is still mid February of 2010. We’re barely into the first quarter! How can you even call that a 2011 model when it’s not even close to that [...]
Thursday, February 11th, 2010, in
Cars & RacingThis is just something that has been bothering me ever since I got into cars. Just want to vent a bit and share some info. First thing is first: Camber is not the devil. When I put my adjustable camber bolts on the front of my car and requested alignment at -2° camber up front you could have sworn the guys at the shop (Kent Brown Toyota in this case) thought I was absolutely insane. [...]
