Why shouldn’t they? Europe is quite lenient concerning foreign cars ... as long as they pass the periodical official inspections. You will have to adapt some lighting due to the left-hand driven Japan (good luck finding fitting headlights) but apart from this, you can have all the fun. There is no absurd…

Nuff said...

That thing looks like they changed the production midway from Silvia to Testarossa ... not bad anyway.

“I hear you - but I’m not listening.”

As someone already mentioned: This is likely somewhere in Europe. So the “low-effort prank” might have more severe consequences. In most of Europe, you first fill up, than you go inside and pay. A lot of people still don’t carry a credit card and prefer to pay cash. There are some overnight automatons here and there…

Stebel Nautilus Truck ... It really turns heads without the need for a compressor.

“So, we got a call for a RZR that’s broken down out at Sand Hollow...”

The E34 540i had a similar setup - also for space reasons:

That reminds me of something I cobbled together in Photoshop three years ago (unfortunately, I omitted the text blurbs for the Disco, Disco Sport and Defender):

High (rate of) speed: Speed is already a rate in itself (the rate at which distance changes over time). But this redundancy is frequently used to embiggen the cromulence in police reports and news snippets.

I once had the chance to drive the 105, back in 2004, I think. Desert tan, manual, bench seat, HZJ-engine (straight 6 diesel, n.a.). Perfection. Felt slightly weird, if you’ve driven a “normal” 100 beforehand, with its plushy seats and smooth V8. Unfortunately that was at a time before smartphones, so I don’t have any…

At least up in Lapland the Swedes do not salt their snowy roads (they rather scrape lines in it ... the snow that is, not the tarmac). Maybe that’s a contributing factor.

Yep, that is just like the introduction of the steel helmet in WW1. Suddenly the number of head injuries shot up, which sounds totally contraproductive ... until you realize that without the helmet all these guys would’ve been just dead.

Especially funny when the car’s maker advertises the transmission as “lifetime”, but the transmission’s maker mandates a 60k km or similar oil change interval - as seen on the GM 5L40-E in the BMW e39 (which also were to weak in some cases, like the 530d)

Obligatory XKCD...

FTFY.

FYI: The triangular retroreflective element is reserved (and mandatory) for trailer rear lights, so you can still tell cars/trucks and trailers apart at night.

In fact, to keep an automotive angle going, for some reason our pals at Mercedes-Benz have developed the world’s highest artificial tornado:

Ah, okay, thanks for the info! 

OK, that would’ve been my idea too: That the additional trans cooler somehow blocked/restricted/slowed the transmission fluid’s flow, stalling (in lack of a better word) the torque converter. That also would show no problems in idle or park.