A: Go to Wag-A-Bag ( I saw those in Austin and was like what the fuck?)

I’m not sure what “ Standard” they are alluding to. One already exists in the form of the SAE J1772 plug, which is the plug used on the Volt, Plug in Prius, Fiat 500e, and Leaf use.

Removing all possible means of danger suddenly makes it somehow seem much less exciting...

Wow. So do people actually go all the way down and then up that second slide? That’s kind of insane and the speed must be ridiculous. Edit. I just looked it up. You go in a little rubber dingy so that’s not near as cool as I thought.

Where is that water slide? That itself looks insane.

How old are you anyway? I’m guessing younger than I and thus not really old enough to be around when these things were actually new. I will stand by Toyota the brand all day long and most of their engines are in fact indestructible. The engines in this era of Land Cruiser isn’t one of them and yes- they have a higher…

yeah, I don’t know either. The show I watched talked about VSPs and there were both 3 and 4 wheel cars. But basically it looked like all of them had very tiny little engines and very low top speeds. I mean these were barely go carts with a tin shell arounf the cab.

I enjoyed it. Its interesting because the show focusses heavily on post war European cars. Most were virtually tin cans with engines but still- it really draws a sort of gross comparison between postwar Europe and the US where we were driving these insanely huge and heavy cars while across the pond the cars they had…

I saw a BBC show about “cars of the people” or something like that, hosted by one of the original top gear guys. Anyway they did a segment on some of these small 3 wheel basic cars and in some European countries- France included- one could buy one of these WITHOUT an actual license, which is insane given how tipsy…

These are one of the few vehicles that Toyota made where the engine is garbage. You “might” make it 150k before the engine blows the head gasket. Despite the hipster appeal this thing has... Cap for the engine alone.

I had a go cart as a kid with a yoke shaped steering wheel. It was great until I hit a tree one day and the end of it hit me in the ribs...

Yup. Well that was in the 50's where everything was possible you know... because the middle class actually had some power. Now we’re just trying to pay the bills.

Exactly. Most people forget that when you have lots of oil that forms on the freeway and then it rains the result is a slick slurry and thus no real friction. Especially for rwd cars

Someone didn't learn that when it starts to rain roads will get slick.

Uh.... no he won’t.

Yes. Everyone tried to buy it all the time. I'd be at Safeway and some guy would say- hey, that's one of those super rare super tracs. I'll give you $100,000 for it. I turned them down though.

I owned the ultra rare super trac version which was even faster. They made only two of those and it too was as slow as molasses.

Actually one day I took my taco to the race track and raced on of these celicas. I won the race easily and the other guy was embarrassed.

Broo ha ha

I feel bad for the guy. clearly a LOT of time went into building that and now the thing more or less looks destroyed.