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Easy question: Paris. You will not find a single car with a pristine bumper parked in the whole city no matter how hard you look, and you will see scenes like this every 5 minutes.

Italy. More specifically, the worst I’ve seen is Naples (the more south you go, the worse it gets, sadly). Bruised bumpers, headlights, blinkers missing, paint faded from the sun, clear coats peeling. I guess it’s a combination of the economic troubles down there, which in turn makes people buy cheap and poorly… Read more

Is anyone else concerned about the long-term prospects of all of those wires strung over the glowing turbos?

Its a Major problem in NYC where 1) dudes are driving around with their high-beams which sucks when are driving (even walking) and you can’t see whats coming up around you. Not sure why people have their high-beams on in this city when the whole place is lit up already. These new lights are a problem too because even… Read more

Living in the NYC area as well, people simply don’t care. Especially every T-plated Uber douche. The attitude of it seems to prioritize like this: Read more

Brazilian Options:
2009 VW Saveiro Trooper

We’ve moved on from Hammurabi-style eye-for-an-eye justice, I’d like to think.

Here’s a .pdf link (download only, sorry) about it and a convertible Eagle conversion called the Sundancer: Read more

MINI Coopers look solid on steelies...

There’s a rare version of the Eagle wagon with huge fuel tanks and a VM Motori six cylinder turbodiesel. Has about 1500 miles of range. Only seven were made with two accounted for but it doesn’t seem like it’d be too hard to replicate. The whole car was built from a couple companies’ parts bins. Add light bars, roof… Read more

This is a great video about 80s UK company car culture:

Ogier is a Toyota now, not Citroen. Citroen pulled out of WRC this year because of him leaving.

An Aerostar in 2020, let alone one without rusted rockers? This is truly some SoCal weather witchcraft. SoCal — where your car lasts forever, which it will need to do, because that’s how long you’ll be stuck in traffic. Read more

Chevy Firenza Can-Am: a small Vauxhall coupe with the Camaro Z28's V8, built for South Africa.

It is an earlier model, you can tell by the location of the front Ford logo(but not too early). Later versions had the Ford logo in the top of the grille and not the middle of it. This one is probably around 1989–1991. 

...late 6th Century BCE... Read more

Time to just fix the whole thing from the ground up.

Counterpoint: Forcing your employees to attend a political event is deeply fucked up - and is somehow legal. Read more