You’re a car maker with an eight-figure ad budget and access to the most creative minds on the planet, and your tagline is “designed for driving” ?? Nice work BMW, you win un-smart quote of the day.

Rally champ Juha Kankkunen drives Bentley Supersports Convertible 205mph sheet ice.

Thanks JW for sending this Craigslist ad for a Sweet Ass 2001 Ford Taurus, one of the all-time great Craigslist ads (with pictures) that begins like this: Holy crap! What kind of badassary is this?! A 2001 Black Ford Taurus! Get the hell out of here! This car is a god amongst other, smaller cars. [...]

A friend (coincidentally nicknamed Kone) sent this pic Sunday with the following question: Do you think he carries the cones with him? It’s a good question Kone. The custom size of those cones and residential parking space certainly suggest so. Thanks for the fly ride pic, and for this moving documentary of one man’s quiet, [...]

In a truly sad statement about the Michigan economy, the Pontiac Silverdome sold for $583,000. This site has hosted decades of A-list concerts, the Pope, and a Super Bowl. Now this deal makes that cache the same price price as a one bedroom condo in certain parts of San Francisco. The Silverdome was built for [...]

Want a car for 2010, but don’t have much money? It’s your lucky day. Ford has the answer. A few years ago my 80-something year old Mom talked herself out of a speeding ticket by telling the young officer that she had “to get there before she forgot where she was going”. Where does the [...]

Having a home office can be difficult. Last week my daughter came in and told me that, due to cost cutting measures, the board of directors was considering replacing me: with voice mail. “In fact, Dad,” she continued, “if things don’t pick up around here, every day would be casual Friday for you – you [...]

Mark Twain said, “If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.” If one read the newspaper lately, you’d have seen that it’s getting pretty crazy; we’re bailing out Wall Street, we’re bailing out banks, we’re bailing out car companies…In fact, there was a special box [...]

In the past, every time I filled up my tank with gasoline, I would wonder, “Why isn’t the gas cap in the same place on every car?” It turns out that automakers are influenced by many factors. BMW, for example, is very concerned about balance so they typically put the tank in the right rear [...]

GM’s Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner has reportedly been forced out as GM has piled up billions of dollars in losses and asked for government loans to stay alive. Wagoner was with GM for 32 years, and has been replaced by Fritz Henderson, the company’s vice chairman and chief operating officer. (Let’s hope his 401(k) [...]