From what I’ve heard, they’re truly awful cars in almost every way, and they certainly look cancerous as well. Also, they were “are you fucking high” expenseive, so it’s really no great tragedy that they went out of business.

The total unmanned flight and landing is impressive even for today, let alone in the 80s. I don’t think the Ruskies even have a domestic autonomous UAV at this point.

Mine is a question of proposed reliability. Well, reliability as a measure of superiority, I guess.

I’m no engineer, but would a greater number of moving parts and more complex systems increase the chances of failure? Buran is by all means a very impressive machine, but STS only used three SSMEs because they didn’t…

You’re very welcome, but I was actually tipped off on this car through an article I read a few months back (it might have been in Bob Lutz’s Car Guys vs. Bean Counters I think). The REAL Borrani wire wheels were unmistakable on that Candy Red F-body. But I do appreciate the complement! For the record, rosslitman is…

This, right here, is why Jalopnik will always be great, no matter how much the editors, Gawker Media, or Nick Denton himself might try to fuck it up.

I was pleasantly surprised by this engine in the government fleet Grand Caravan I drove a few months ago. Pretty punchy, and an impressive base engine in a vehicle that starts at $21k.

Francis: [while standing on top of the Hyundai, his cap blew off and landed in the street] Holy Cow! My cap blew off! Swing her round. We’ll pick it up.

Turbine-powered cars!

Well yeah, he drove Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden in a Fury.

E46 MWagon

Was the fuckup actually fucked up?

Early 80’s Vacuum line systems to make emissions limits:

DeMuro, I blame you for this...

As it was once pointed out to me, one could be flying the NSFW route from PNS to CLT (Pensacola Fl. to Charlotte, NC.)

Not best I've seen (I wasn't there) but my father in law is a heavy duty mechanic instructor and infamous MacGyver. In a pinch or on his own vehicle, he'll try anything; pay him or have him work on yours, and the work is dynamite. He installed the LSD in my Jag; I had mechanics who wouldn't touch that job for money,…

I am reconciling myself to the very real possibility that Top Gear, as we've known it, is over. The lads are at the end of their contract with the BBC anyway.

I can't believe I couldn't see that...

obvious BMW due to parking job.