Robby94LS..... The Blog

 Am I..... A "Ford guy?"  I was recently thinking about this after seeing an old picture of me as a kid, probably middle school aged. I was standing in the driveway of the house we moved into when I was in middle school next to a Ford Thunderbird. Behind it, in the background, you can see in the carport a Ford Escort. I vividly remember both of these cars. Unfortunately the Thunderbird which had the 3.8L V6 that was known for head gasket issues fell victim to that issue so that car was gone before I could drive, but the Escort is what I learned to drive on. By the time I was learning to drive we had a Chevy conversion van in addition to the Escort. The reason I've never thought of myself as a "Ford guy," is because my dad was a Chevy guy. When he was younger him and his friends had Camaros, Novas, Chevelles, and he even had a 1941 Chevy (not sure what model) for awhile. Because of this, while other kids with budding interests in cars had supercars of the time as...

                I currently drive a 2017 Ford Fiesta ST. When looking back at the history of cars I’ve owned and driven, it’s probably objectively the best car I’ve ever had. I could go on about why, but it would just be one of thousands of other “slow car fast” articles combined with, used car guy owns a newer car for the first time, so I’ll spare you.  Despite being the best car I’ve owned, I often find myself longing for past cars that are in many ways objectively worse. The 2 I miss the most are of course, my baby, the 1994 Acura Integra LS that is my online namesake, and the 1995 DSM I owned a few years after the Integra. Lately I’ve been trying to figure out why this is. Were they better cars than I realized and I just wanted the latest and greatest, failing to realize what I had? Is the Fiesta not really all that great? The more I thought about it, the more I realized, there was one difference m...