Bahahahahahaha… stupid dumb ass. man, that fire hydrant goes flying.

I think I did get free gas, because I was at the same gas station today and the pump I used before was now “out of order”. I knew I wasn’t crazy!
BTW… I just wrote this from my cellphone because I’m awesome! Haha

Either the mechanism to measure flow through the gas pump was messed up and gave me free gas, or I can’t do math…
My truck holds 32 gallons of gas. I was *very* empty (it would be a stretch if I had 2 gallons in the tank). Anyway, I fill it up and the […]

I got a letter in the mail today that Hummer has put a 100,000 mile warranty on all 2007 vehicles. That’s cool… especially considering it was 36,000 miles before. I just got a free 64,000 mile extension on my warranty.
http://www.hummer.com/100kwarranty

I’m not sure if this is supposed to be a joke, or what… but this guy might as well been speaking Chinese and doing backflips. I think I may be able to put one in my new car (maybe)…

It only took 1/3 of a year (116 days to be exact), but I actually *have* my replacement car for the one that got stolen now.
Now I get to drop it off in the morning (monday) to get some work done, so hopefully I’ll have it back on Tuesday afternoon.
Yay, I have a car. hah

I just got a call from the San Diego Police Department letting me know that some Federal investigators recovered my stolen car somewhere in Sonora, Mexico and that they are going to mail me something and that I can come pick it up.
Well first of all, I don’t have the keys for it anymore because […]

I went to pay for my new car today (the dealer doesn’t actually have it yet, but I guess there was some $2,500 Labor Day rebates that I could get if I paid for it and did all the paperwork now), and I opted for LoJack’s Early Warning Recovery System. That way if my […]

I don’t think they physically have my car yet, but it’s close enough that I can go in and do all the paperwork. It’s now been 3 months and 1 week since my car was stolen, and finally it’s about to be replaced. Yay!!!

I’m not really one to complain (that often), but why in the hell does it take so long to build an f’ing car??? It’s now been over 3 months since my car was stolen, and I ordered a new one 1 week after it was stolen (before the insurance company considered it a loss […]

Not sure how accurate this article is, or what their methodology is for calculating the “dust-to-dust energy cost” (I only skimmed it), but it’s interesting…
http://www.reason.org/commentaries/dalmia_20060719.shtml
Comparing this data, the study concludes that overall hybrids cost more in terms of overall energy consumed than comparable non-hybrid vehicles. But even more surprising, smaller hybrids’ energy costs are greater […]

Still about 5 weeks off on getting my replacement car. Does anyone have a time machine I can borrow? Because I’m not a big fan of the car I’m currently driving (although I am thankful to Stefan for letting me borrow it).
I think the car I’m driving now kind of smells like pee […]

Well awesome… came home from playing poker last night at around 12:30 am, parked in my “secure” gated parking structure, and went to run some errands at 11:00 am this morning, and my car is gone.
That’s rad.

I heard about this yesterday, but apparently it’s been an ongoing saga the last few months…
http://www.wreckedexotics.com/special/enzo/
The driver hit a telephone pole going 162 miles per hour and only suffered a bloody lip.
The amazing part to me is that the Enzo (a $1,000,000 car) can be repaired by Ferrari to be “good as new” for $250,000 […]

Well, now that the IVA-W200 is available for people to actually get, I thought I would see about getting everything together for my new car stereo. Unfortunately Alpine’s bluetooth module (KCA-100BT) isn’t shipping yet, nor is the docking station (PMD-DOK1) for their Blackbird portable GPS (PMD-B100).
Oh well… what’s another month in what seems like […]

Now that I know what car stereo I’m going to put in my truck, I started to look around for the IVA-W200 online to see if it’s available anywhere (no point in going to a local store to have it installed if it’s not available yet). Even though none of the online retailers have […]

Volkswagen stole my idea, but at least now we get to see some images from it. Looks pretty cool.
Basically it’s just Google Earth running in a car stereo for things like navigation.

Those German bastards stole my idea about using Google Earth as a navigation system in a car…
What a bunch of little bitches.

If you actually have 17 minutes to spare, this is kind of funny/interesting…

Wow… I was starting to think that no car stereo company would “get it right” and give me exactly what I wanted. Not only did they get it right, but it’s better than I wanted (detachable GPS for example)…
I wanted a double-din deck with a touch screen (I even tossed around the idea of […]

Okay… first of all, let me make it clear that I’m not buying a Ferrari… Even if I did, I don’t even have a place to put one for about a year (when the house is done).
But I remember reading somewhere (or maybe someone told me) that there was a multiple-year wait to get one. […]

In order from cheapest to most expensive:
Ferrari F430 Coupe
Price: $174,585
Color To Get Me: Titanium (if you are going to get me all the cars, get this one in yellow. Too many silver cars otherwise.)

Aston Martin V12 Vanquish S
Price: $255,000
Color To Get Me: Titanium

Rolls-Royce Phantom
Price: $328,750
Color To Get Me: Black

Mercedes-Benz SLR
Price: $450,000
Color To Get Me: […]

I’m not much of a TV watcher, but Wildboyz and Viva La Bam are pretty damn funny. Don Vito is such an idiot on Viva La Bam, that I’m not sure if I’m supposed to laugh and this guy or feel sorry for him (although I usually laugh).
Anyway… the whole reason for this entry, […]

Okay dude, this thing is pretty cool. It’s a full blown computer packed into a double-DIN sized chassis. the thing is made by Infill (a Korean company). I still have a hard time believing they fit it all into the chassis without a hide-away unit, but it seems like they did. […]

Hummer made a “proof of concept” vehicle that basically turned the Hummer SUT (which is what I have) into a hydrogen powered vehicle. The engine actually stayed the same (the Vortec V8), but was modified to work on hydrogen.
Now for the funny part… The hydrogen system is less powerful than the […]

Man, it seems like I’m bitching and moaning about stuff lately, but here’s another thing that annoys me. Gas stations put caps on how much gas you can buy with your credit card in a single transaction, and with gas prices getting close to $3/gallon here, you always have to run two different transactions […]

First of all, let me say that I never bought my car to attract people… That being said, one thing that I’ve found really annoying is the fact that I’m now a total guy magnet. It wouldn’t be quite so bad if I was a chick magnet (heh), but I’m not…. just guys.
Everywhere […]

Remember a few years ago, when gasoline “spiked” up to around $1.75 and everyone started freaking out? People actually started stealing gas from other people’s cars, and filling up their tanks at gas stations, then leaving without paying.
Well now I’ve seen gas over $3/gallon, and people don’t really seem to care. They got […]

I have a cool bluetooth enabled phone now, and it’s handy for being a wireless Internet gateway for my laptop when I’m traveling, but I also want to be able to use it handsfree in my vehicle. Can someone tell me why there are no good after-market options for this?
I heard through the grapevine […]

You know what I wish someone would do? Come out with a way to control a Bluetooth phone hands free while in your car. The 2004 Acura TL can do it right out the factory. Seems strange that after-market manufacturers like Alpine wouldn’t jump on the opportunity. Not only would it […]

Well, I finally decided to do a “photo shoot” with my old truck (a white Toyota Tacoma) so I could put it up for sale. So I got it washed today and also put a new battery in it. So while I was at it, I took a couple pictures of my new […]

I was flipping through the H2 owner’s manual to see if there was anything interesting…
You got to love a car that comes with specific instructions on how to drive over logs, drive over boulders and drive your new car through a river.

Normally Onstar charges $0.30 - $0.47 per minute (depending on how many minute you pre-purchase) to use the built in phone. Well now Onstar and Verizon have a new (well in the last few months) partnership that allows you to use your Verizon cell phone plan minutes for the phone in your car.
This was […]

I’ve had my new car for about a month now, and about a week ago, I realized I could actually talk to my car (and it talks back). It’s amazing how well it works too. Not only that, I realized that the Onstar system that comes in cars has a phone number assigned […]

One thing I have noticed since I started driving a Hummer is that when you are driving, everyone is really nice (much more so than my Toyota truck). Probably because people are scared you are going to drive them over.
There is one rather funny exception to this though. Small cars (I’m assuming the […]

My perfect system would be this:
Double DIN touch-screen controller
Video out (to drive monitors in rear headrests)
Navigation system that can be controlled from the touch-screenIt doesn’t seem like a terribly tall order, but I don’t think I have any options. Some stuff is close, but nothing is “complete”.

Alpine System
Pluses

Touch screen is cool because it gives […]

With my new truck, I was expecting to get about 8 miles per gallon. I drove it around over 100 miles today, and the on-board computer showed me getting 12.5 miles per gallon overall. Definitely not great mileage, but better than I was expecting.
One nice thing about it is my Toyota Tacoma has […]

Well, I finally decided to get one (a 2005 SUT), so I picked it up from the dealer today. Got a pretty good deal on it, and it was exactly what I wanted (I would never have bought it if it wasn’t). This is what I ended up getting:
2005 Hummer 2 SUT (Stealth […]

I poked around a little bit, and found out Alpine has a touch-screen compatible navigation system after all (NVE-N099P), which is the one piece missing from the setup I want. The only problem is that it’s only available in Europe and comes with road maps of Europe. I can’t find any dimension specs […]

Sick of all my Hummer related entries in the blog yet? It’s just been on my mind lately I guess…
Anyway, I read an interview with one of the guys at GM, and he mentioned that they are working on a Hybrid H2. But it isn’t expected until the 2007 or 2008 […]

Did a little research on the stereo options for the Hummer 2 today. New for 2005 is the option for a touch-screen navigation system. Sounds cool, but check this out…

If you get the navigation system, you can’t have the CD changer.

The DVD that holds the maps goes in the normal CD/DVD slot on […]

While I don’t absolutely *need* a new car, the 2005 H2 SUT is making me put some serious consideration into it. So now I’m trying to justify what would end up being about $65,000 (when it’s all said and done) in my mind. So this is what I came up with… Starting […]