@John Carter: Their conduct in Virginia shows just who the people of PETA really are, typical progressives. Incidentally, I knew the guy that sold them their HQ in Norfolk. He operated a huge travel agency out of it, CI Travel, back before the internet made travel agencies a novelty. Before the PETA people moved in,…

@Serolf Divad: This guy is an engineer and I think he built it from scratch. It looked remarkably convincing, and nothing like the production replicas I've seen. It was in the original colors and had the nose band and plexiglas side windows with opening panels. Other than the rear fenders, and choice of slotmags, it…

@alexander_the_car_salamander: make that two.

The Carabo is my favorite show car. Some day I'd love to find the replica of it my neighbor built from a Porsche 911 when I was a kid.

@rebeldevil: Close a business, create another group of people who'll vote for whoever claims to be in favor of extended unemployment benefits!

So all they lost was a month of business and their good name. No harm, no foul. Thanks government!

Does anyone know whether or not the wheels getting stolen are OEM? OEM wheels cost a fortune, but you don't see them on gansters' cars too often. If you're trying to make your car look like it was in a rap video and someone rips off your dubs, I might be less than simpathetic.

@stephdumas: Considering that not only is there a way to embed youtube videos but you had one in your post, I'm a bit of a dope!

@stephdumas: I believe the Renault 16 TX had a 5-speed on the tree.

@Boston: Europeans didn't need catalytic converters to meet emissions standards until 1989, so the performance of the V6 would have suffered greatly by the time it made it to the US market. Federalized versions made 115 hp instead of the 150 hp of the XR4 engine. The 302 V8 would have been great in the Merkur version…

@AustinMiniMan: Jim Rome doesn't know as much about cars as many 6 year old girls and doesn't seem to have a personality at all. Why does he have a job?

Except for the Saab transmission, which is a comedic new twist, this smacks of the sort of Corvette rumors that used to circulate during the epoch of the C3. Maybe GM is pulling out their old playbook. When economic and political uncertainty makes investment in a new Corvette iffy, substitute rumors for product to…

Has anyone tried this with a bargain battery? Incidentally, DieHards are so amazing that my local Sears Auto Center tested every one before they bothered installing them.

@FightingChance: Sorry about that. I originally had a link to an article about Spring and Durbin's mutual back scratching, but it didn't work. Then I replaced the defective link with a sentence I tacked on the end of the post where it didn't fit, so I cut and pasted it to where it did. Except I actually copied and…

@FightingChance: He funded it. With far better name recognition and multiples of financial backing provided by ties to Durbin, Spring won by 800 votes. Would he have been elected without Durbin's resources? It seems highly unlikely. Durbin has since been repaid with government dollars. If the Illinois electorate likes…

@Scuba Steve: He sits on the transportation and transit boards. Nothing gets done without his say, and when you need a bought politician in Quincy, he's your go-to guy.

No surprises. Quincy's mayor is a typical insider of Democratic national politics. Spring was elected with national DNC money at the behest of Dick Durbin. It isn't about the well being of the idiots who vote for them. It is about the well being of the criminals who pay for them.

If they keep it near the 1000 kg target AND keep the stinking turbos off the new Sky-G engines, this will be the most desirable sports car on the market. The 1.3 liter naturally aspirated Sky-G is making 150 hp, so a 1.8 or 2.0 should make the next Miata a giant killer. There has been so little automotive good news in…

The look screams heavy and whispers performance.

@cobrajoe: Until NASCAR started checking for it, teams built cambered z-axles for the back of their stock cars.