Clicks on click-bait article about engines that shows an engine. Is met by pictures of cars, not engines.

Show us some damn engine p0rn here, please!

Was going to give you a star, but you’re sitting at 17 right now, so I think I’ll just leave it right where it stands. 

I bought a Focus RS new, placing an order months before it came out. Dealer charged me sticker. Seems fair. And didn’t screw me on the bullshit “doc” fees.

The cars that arrived at dealerships without orders had huge markups on them, and they sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, some not selling for over a year until the…

Hey, man, this is Jalopnik. We love our junkyards and we don’t want these assholes hanging out there. Probably the sort to take parts off cars truck and not pay for them. Send them somewhere else, like the DMV or something. 

A quick googling says these tickets cost $54 each (presumably plus court costs, fees, interest, interest on interest on fees, etc.).

At 501,699 tickets, that means more than $27,000,000 the state will now go digging for elsewhere. But I wonder if the time to write one license-plate-obstruction ticket, plus the…

It might derive its funding from what seems like similar sources, but all of those funding sources should just be considered taxes, like we have with Medicare, as the IMSS is very much a public healthcare option available to just about everyone. The U.S. system has private insurers and private hospitals central to its…

I think it had more to do with the fact that most people were typically driving 65 to 70 mph on the suburban highways, yet the speed limit remained artificially low, giving the police the power to selectively enforce the law at their whim. It was a protest meant to support raising those limits to the level people were…

Ah, yes, the non-protest protests also known as “civil obedience” to point out the absurdity of the double-nickel speed limit.

I believe that went on in a bunch of cities. Brilliant protest.

The rationale is that the dealer lobby groups in state capitals are among the strongest, tightest and best-paying participants in government.

My bad. I didn’t see the fine print that the Grand Touring needn’t be a “Black Label” model. 

You had me intrigued enough by a 500 hp Aviator for under $70,000. So I gave Ford some clicks over at stinkin Lincoln-dot-com. The hybrid is only available in the Black Label Grand Touring edition for $87,905 on up.

Ouch.

So, over to Ford, to see what an Exploder ST costs. Oh, goodie, it’s only $49,000 to start. I recall…

Well, we do have Hankook tires, which is, from what I understand, literally “Korea” tires.

I bought a Focus RS five years ago, waiting a little over six months for the car to be built. I had to call around to dealers who weren’t marking up over MSRP. Finally found one...who then tacked on $500 for the “doc fees.” See ya!

Next state over has a law limiting doc fees to $75. So I bought there.

What both had in…

You get a star because they won’t let me give you a heart.

Boston, 1976. I remember seeing this in the paper as a little kid and being aghast.

South Dakota literally has a history of statewide elected officials with terrible driving records killing people with their cars and basically getting away with it.

Anyone else remember Bill Janklow?

I knew James Gunn “way back when,” and we had a conversation then about how Andrew Dice Clay was “offensive.” (Yeah, it was that long ago!). Anyway, we talked about the fun of offending people who are really asking for it. The prevailing thought he articulated was “How can you possibly be offended by someone who’s…

I gave you the only star I had to give, because there was no way to make that star say “Holy shit!” Thanks for digging this up.

The prop damage mentioned above is scary stuff. Losing propulsion on final would suck. Hard. Even with an instructor aboard.

Uh, have you ever been to New London? FBI? NCIS? Shore Patrol? Puh-lease! Despite the Sub Base officially being in “New London,” it’s actually across the river in Groton. Probably the occasional Short Patrol case when a drunk sailor does something stupid, but less than it used to be. 

New London, like its big brothers…

They should have borrowed my old ‘74 Bronco that I owned from 1988 to ‘89 or so.

Painted camouflage by the previous owner’s kids (he gave one can each of black, brown, tan and green to his four kids) because he used to take it hunting. Mind you, this was before camo was a thing and every goddamned bit of stuff we buy…