If you want to get women's attention in LA, or in the less-gentrified parts of the Bay Area, get a Cutlass, bonus points if it's a convertible. Then, optimally, invest in some Truespoke rims and Vogue tires. Boom, all the latinas wanna date ya.

I feel like a Ferrari is definitely a dude car, though. An old school friend of mine who is a fairly butch-y lesbian drives the late-70s Cutlass she inherited from her dad and she swears up and down it's a hit with the latinas at the local gay bar (singular).

Yeah, but remember that huge hullaballoo when that Benz test driver ("Turbo-Rolf" I think Bild dubbed him) supposedly caused the death of a mother and her child?

Can you imagine the budget for that spot? It must have taken multiple takes to get that huge-ass Hercules to fly over the tiny car just so (I mean, it looks like he almost nudges the roof!). Not to mention ironclad guts on the pilot's part.

When was the last time you drove in Germany? I wish that still held true. Pressure from insurance companies and the green lobby means these days going more than 80-90 miles is a social transgression to most Germans, and nobody enforces unspoken social rules like the Germans do.

"Reckless speed" is always an overruling factor in German road law though. You always take part of the blame if you're found to drive faster than road conditions allow ("unangepasste Geschwindigkeit").

Yes and no. Generally yes - BUT. I visit Germany quite frequently (got expat relatives there) and from what I've learned from my relatives if the judge finds your speed to be "reckless" you take part of the blame no matter what. Used to be "reckless" was pretty much open to the judges' interpretation, but pressure…

It really depends. The left lane is the "passing lane" in Germany, not the "fast lane". If you need to pass, you use it. It's perfectly reasonable to pull into the passing lane at comparatively low speeds to overtake, say, a tractor trailer moving at 55mph. It's even legal for trucks to overtake one another unless…

The refreshed model got one of the most badass commercials of all time. Awesome hoonage on a frozen lake, exlplosions, and a C-130 flying SUPER low - all without CGI.

Some of the folks involved in the creation of the Peerless went on to create the Gordon-Keeble GT. Fewer still were made (exactly 100 to be precise). It wasn't very light either, but they came up with an ingenious solution to that problem: add 327 Chevy, stop worrying about weight.

Aah, LiveLeak. Like youtube, but with 150% more asswhooping.

The GTO badges must be a later addition, but I believe in '72 you could get the Endura snout and air induction hood on any LeMans Sport, which was available in all bodystyles. Strongest engine in the 4-door would have been the non-H.O. 455 4-barrel with 250hp.

Aside from the cars, what always sticks out to me in photos of North Korea is how freaking thin everybody is. Like, borderline starving, even in Pyongyang. Producing enough food for everybody seems to be something the regime never was able to lock down.

That's cool, but if I can't afford it, how much good does that do me? Dream machines are cool, but if you lack the means to actually make them your own, they're just, well, dreams.

Well, it's no more ties from now on! Now that we've advanced to the knockout stage it's do or die, much the way any red-blooded American should live their life.

Well, as I read it, he only ran a single race against a single guy so he was still second place.

Yeah, it is. If you cross it first, your total time is necessarily lower than your opponent's and you win. What Jason describes here is a not uncommon situation in drag racing - he screwed up the launch by reacting too slowly and even though he was actually faster down the strip, i.e. he gained on his opponent, it…

He didn't. Read again: he says he was faster in the quarter mile - meaning post-to-post - but he never says he was first over the finish line.

Ok, yeah that's reasonable. Although to be fair to the Foxbody crowd, some of the properly modded Foxes are, in fact, insane beasts that will run with supercars.

I think most of today's cars and even trucks would be just fine doing 100+. But you may be right that 100mph speeds are too dangerous for US highways, considering the amount of rusted-out Explorers and Blazers with taped fenders on bald tires (and probably busted tie rods and bushings and dampers and steering and…