Technology+Cars=Crap

Advances in technology lead to easier lives, right? Sure, unless you're talking about your car! Nowadays, EVERYTHING in your car 1. breaks WAY too easily and 2. is WAY too expensive to fix! My first car was a 1978 Chevy Nova. Man, that car was awesome! Not only was it a 4-door sedan with a freakin' 305 V8 stock engine, but the frame and body were made out of this funny material called METAL! I mean seriously, try and find a nice 4-door sedan today that has anywhere in the same neighborhood of power that the Nova had! That's right, you can't find one! Everybody wants a fuel efficient car now, with 4 tiny little cylinders and 47 million miles to the gallon. Oh, but try accelerating from a stop or, heaven forbid, simply driving in the mountains with a 4 cylinder car, it just doesn't work out too well. I think I know why all those pansies with Honda Civics pay more than what their car is worth for engine modifications. It isn't so they'll be fast, it's just so they can accelerate like a normal car should. Oh, let's get to that fixing the crap that breaks thing, and things will most definitely break! On the Nova, you could narrow things down relatively easily. When their aren't 50,000 electronic components in the engine, it's pretty simple stuff. Take the carburetor vs. fuel injection for instance. Sure, fuel injection is more efficient, but if something goes wrong with the fuel injection system, can you fix it yourself? NO! You have to take to some jackass who would charge his own mother $500 just to change a spark plug! Heck, with a carburetor, you could fix most all your problems with an old toothbrush or, most of the time, just a squirt or two of WD-40! How can you beat that?? But oh well, I guess we'll have to settle for computers on wheels that break whenever they feel like it and then just get used to taking it up the rear at the mechanic's. Well, I think I've picked this bone clean, so I'll say goodbye until next time! Slán!

Exactly what I'm doing

It's only appropriate that I let everybody know what exactly this thing is all about. If you've seen Family Guy, you'll be familiar with the episode where Peter became a reporter and had his own segment on the news called, "You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?" Well, this will a lot like that. I'll do my best to share my gripes and pet peeves in a humorous fashion and hopefully entertain you good folks who decide to read this thing. It's definitely not my intention offend anybody, so I will say, if you don't like what you reading, then don't read it! Other than that, enjoy my stupidity and aggravation!