Yeah but a lot of non-paying members (or even spamby!) dont have that. So maybe if you click the car info (eg for me it's "2007 OBP STI") it takes you to the journal and you also have the garage link.
When non-paying and/or non-garage-owning members post a question, i usually want to know more about their car and go to the journal. I have to click their name, threads started, sort through to find a journal, etc... I think this would be useful.