Why do I suspect that Dita and the late great Colin Chapman would have gotten on quite well together.

[www.flickr.com] Glad Chicago works better than nibbles

Lake Shore Drive at 4:00 pm on Thursday. It was a mess but it cleaned up real nice.

That's a Lada swerving

@jd: The TARP portion of the bailout (where the US bought bad assets provided DIP financing to GM and the like) was about $700 Billion. Shoring up the commercial paper markets used about $7 Trillion of liquidity— but in the long term 'cost' nothing (the commercial paper was repaid or refinanced by banks once they…

@EddieSuttons SouthernComfort: well played

One in green with a tan interior and a 6 speed please. This is the reason my son has a Recaro car seat.

Crack pipe doesnt do this monstrosity justice. This is a hot shot of heroin delivered by Jack Kavorkian himself.

needs more crayon, and more passing

Now this guy is IN the Tornado

@gregtivo: Not quite. The government's view was that its safer for the kiddie to sit in a parent's lap in a plane than to sit in a car seat for the long car trip, as flying is that much safer than driving. While my kid sat in a car seat on the plane when he was small enough to do so, I can understand the logic.

At least he had a better week than Todd "wish no one knew my real name" Collins did

@Daedalus256: Christiano de Matto might disagree with you [en.wikipedia.org]

If my calculations are right (and I don't care if they aren't), this scores about a 275 on the Jalopnik scale, and it should because its a Mercedes Wagon Diesel Drift Car . Its an awesome singularity.

@DocWalt: Thanks, thought it was wrong, but, you know, Schmitt happens.

@ursha25: Shirley Mudowney and Sabina "Ring Taxi" Schmitt to name two would be to differ if they weren't so damned far ahead of you.

Jim Cooke can just use the back half of the Barbaro plaque.

Surprised they didn't mention Waze. Its a free turn-by-turn navigation system that, in effect, combines Trapster and Google Maps. Its a bit of a battery hog, but it works well for me in and around Chicago, and it worked well on a vacation to Maine as well.

Looks like he sucked all of the color from the other guy's outfit